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Interview with author Carolyn Lewis

Carolyn Lewis was born in Cardiff and has been living in Bristol since 1987.  She is married with three daughters and one step-son and has seven grandchildren.  Carolyn has been writing since she was eight years old.  She has written a guide to writing a novel which hopefully will give budding authors confidence to get […]

Interview with Jan Hedger, author of On Calico Wings

Jan Hedger is the author of a new poetry anthology On Calico Wings which raises money for Gardening Leave, a charity supporting Armed Forces veterans. You have a new poetry anthology out called On Calico Wings; tell us a bit about it: On Calico Wings is a collection of poetry I have written over the […]

Book signing and poetry reading event

When: 27th March 2010 at 2.30pm Where: The Grand Hotel, 97-99 King’s Road, Brighton, BN1 2FW £: Free but please register by calling 0117 916 6644 or emailing info@silverwoodbooks.co.uk What is it? You are invited to meet 93-year-old Dame Vera Lynn, ‘the Forces’ Sweetheart’. She will make a rare appearance to promote two publications of […]

Take a journey with Hedwig

Title:  Hedwig’s Journey Author: Frederik van Eeden £: 13.99 What is it all about? Hedwig’s Journey is about a girl growing up in a well-to-do family in a sleepy provincial town. She is very aware of her awakening sexuality and this confuses her.  She finds a soul mate in Johan and they become great friends.  When he falls […]

Interview with author Amanda Sington-Williams

Amanda Sington-Williams comes from a literary family and writes short stories, poetry and novels. She likes to create characters that are outsiders or different from the norm. Her settings go from the ordinary to the exotic and often the stories reflect historical and political events of the time.  Her novel, The Eloquence of Desire, has […]

Interview: Nikki Dudley, author of Ellipsis

Crime thriller, Ellipsis, is Nikki Dudley’s first novel.  Read on, as Contrary Life finds out more from the author herself: Ellipsis is your first novel. Tell us a bit about it. Ellipsis is a psychological thriller but it didn’t really start that way.  I love alternative detective novels so I started out with an aim to […]

A book that pulls out the (full) stops

Title: Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman Author: Friedrich Christian Delius £: 8.99 What is it all about? This is a story of a woman trying to escape the reality of war.  Unusually told with one 105 page-long sentence.  But rather than a hard to read jumble, the words follow the woman as […]

An ocean of trouble in touching tale

Title: Beside the Sea Author: Véronique Olmi £: 8.99 What is it about? A short novel about the relationship between a mother and her children.  The book is about the mother’s irrational fears and told from her point of view.  It centres on a trip she takes with her sons to the seaside.  Not a […]