Book after Book

Welcome to the blog tour for Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda! More about the book… Set in Tokyo over the course of one night, Aki and Hiro have decided to be together one last time in their shared flat before parting. Their relationship has broken down after a mountain trek during which their guide died inexplicably. Now each believes the other to be a murderer and is determined to extract a confession before the night is over. Who is the murderer and what really happened on the mountain? In the battle of wills between them, the chain of events leading up to this night are gradually revealed in a gripping psychological thriller that keeps the reader in suspense to the very end. More about the author… Riku Onda, born in 1964, has been writing fiction since 1991 and has published prolifically since. She has won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Japan Booksellers' Award, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been adapted for film and ...

Welcome to the blog tour for Nothing Else by Louise Beech! More about the book… Heather Harris is a piano teacher and professional musician, whose quiet life revolves around music, whose memories centre on a single song that haunts her. A song she longs to perform again. A song she wrote as a child, to drown out the violence in their home. A song she played with her little sister, Harriet. But Harriet is gone … she disappeared when their parents died, and Heather never saw her again. When Heather is offered an opportunity to play piano on a cruise ship, she leaps at the chance. She’ll read her recently released childhood care records by day – searching for clues to her sister’s disappearance – and play piano by night … coming to terms with the truth about a past she’s done everything to forget. More about the author… Louise's debut novel, How to be Brave , was a Guardian Readers' pick in 2015 and a top ten bestseller on Amazon. The Mountain in my Shoe longlisted for the Guard...

Welcome to the blog tour for Twelve Months and a Day by Louisa Young! More about the book… Rasmus and Jay, Róisín and Nico – two beautiful, ordinary love stories, cut short by death. Jay and Nico don’t even believe in ghosts, yet they seem to be… still here. Still in love with Rasmus and Roísín. And maddeningly powerless. Both are incapable of leaving the living alone: Jay plays matchmaker, convinced that Rasmus and Róisín can heal each other; Nico, plagued by jealousy, doesn’t agree. Rasmus and Róisín are just trying to navigate their newly widowed lives. But all four of them are thinking the same thing: what is love, after death? What is it for? And what are we to dowith it? More about the author… Louisa Young is a writer and songwriter whose twelve novels include the award-winning ‘ My Dear I Wanted to Tell You ’ trilogy. She’s half of the children’s author Zizou Corder (with her daughter Isabel Adomakoh Young), and half of the band Birds of Britain (with Alex Mackenzie). She’s...

Welcome to the blog tour for The Extraordinary Adventures of Alice Tonks by Emily Kenny! More about the book… Alice Tonks is eager to make friends at boarding school, but she’s always found it hard to fit in. Then she discovers she is a switcher and can talk to animals. As she starts to explore her newfound abilities, to her horror she learns that creatures are going missing. Only Alice holds the key to solving the mystery, but she’ll need to harness her full powers first. And to do that she’ll need a bit of help from her new friends – animal and human alike. More about the author… Like Alice, Emily Kenny is autistic and wanted to write her debut novel about an autistic child protagonist. Emily studied English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, completed the MA in Children’s Literature at Roehampton University and was part of the Spark Mentor scheme with WriteMentor. She works as a secondary school English teacher and Special Educational Needs coordinato...

Welcome to the blog tour for Aurora by David Koepp! More about the book… A planet without power. When a solar storm hits the earth, the lights go out across the planet. But this time the blackout won’t be over soon – it could last for years. Aubrey and her stepson now face the biggest challenge of their lives. A society without rules. Soon they hear rumours of riots, the struggle for food becomes real, and even within their small communities, the rule of law is collapsing. Aubrey’s estranged brother Thom, a self-made billionaire who abandoned her years ago, retreats to a gilded desert bunker where he can ride out the crisis in perfect luxury. A race to build a better world… But the complicated history between the siblings is far from over, and what feels like the end of the world is just the beginning of a personal reckoning long overdue… More about the author… David Koepp is a celebrated American screenwriter and director best known for his work on Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Panic Roo...

Welcome to the blog tour for Tasting Sunlight by Ewald Arenz! More about the book… Teenager Sally has just run away from a clinic where she is to be treated for anorexia. She’s furious with everything and everyone, and wants to be left in peace. Liss is in her forties, living alone on a large farm that she runs single-handedly. She has little contact with the outside world, and no need for other people. From their first meeting, Sally realises that Liss isn’t like other adults; she expects nothing of Sally and simply accepts who she is, offering her a bed for the night with no questions asked. The first night lengthens into weeks as Sally starts to find pleasure in working with the bees, feeding the chickens, and harvesting potatoes. Eventually an unlikely friendship develops and these two damaged women slowly open up – connecting to each other, reconnecting with themselves, and facing the darkness in their pasts through their shared work on the land. More about the author… Ewald Aren...

Welcome to the blog tour for Young Women by Jessica Moor! More about the book… When Emily meets the enigmatic and dazzling actress Tamsin, her life changes. Drawn into Tamsin’s world of Soho living, boozy dinners, and cocktails at impossibly expensive bars, Emily’s life shifts from black and white to technicolour and the two women become inseparable. Tamsin is the friend Emily has always longed for; beautiful, fun, intelligent and mysterious and soon Emily is  neglecting her previous life - her work assisting vulnerable women, her old friend Lucy - to bask in her glow. But when a bombshell news article about a decades-old sexual assault case breaks, Emily realises that Tamsin has been hiding a secret about her own past. Something that threatens to unravel everything . . . More about the author… Jessica Moor studied English at Cambridge before completing a Creative Writing MA at Manchester University. Her debut novel  Keeper  was published in 2020 to rave reviews and crit...

Welcome to the blog tour for Beloved Ghost by Fiona Graph! More about the book… Theo Lawder and Zac Bonneval meet in the army at the outbreak of World War II. They survive the horror of Dunkirk and become lovers. Theo goes to work at Bletchley Park, where he becomes friendly with Alan Turing. After the war he joins the Foreign Office, while Zac works for MI6. They make a good life together.  But this is a time when homosexuals are criminalised, and the pressure of being outcasts in society takes a terrible toll. Zac becomes deeply depressed and goes away. Can their love survive society's hatred? More about the author… Fiona Graph lives in London. Her first novel, ‘ Things That Bounded ’, was published in October 2020. ‘ Beloved Ghost ’ is her second novel. Twitter: @fiona_graph My thoughts… There is something special about love in the face of adversity, but it takes skill and nuance to tell such a story in a way that it touches you without falling into clichés. Fiona Graph has suc...

Welcome to the blog tour for The Mayfair Bookshop by Eliza Knight! More about the book… 1938: She was one of the six sparkling Mitford sisters, known for her stinging quips, stylish dress, and bright green eyes. But Nancy Mitford’s seemingly dazzling life was really one of turmoil: with a perpetually unfaithful and broke husband, two Nazi sympathizer sisters, and her hopes of motherhood dashed forever. With war imminent, Nancy finds respite by taking a job at the Heywood Hill Bookshop in Mayfair, hoping to make ends meet, and discovers a new life. Present Day: When book curator Lucy St. Clair lands a gig working at Heywood Hill she can’t get on the plane fast enough. Not only can she start the healing process from the loss of her mother, it’s a dream come true to set foot in the legendary store. Doubly exciting: she brings with her a first edition of Nancy’s work, one with a somewhat mysterious inscription from the author. Soon, she discovers her life and Nancy’s are intertwi...

Hi Rosa! First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the publication of The Slow Lane Walkers Club ! Can you please briefly tell us what it is about? A: Thank you very much, Silvia, and thank you for having me on your blog today! Well, The Slow Lane Walkers Club is about Daniel’s reluctant return from Italy to his hometown in Cornwall. To fill a void he starts a walking club and on his first walk, only his eighty year old neighbour, Hazel, shows up. As the walking club grows, so does an unlikely but heartwarming friendship between Daniel and Hazel. A sense of community develops along with a new start for Daniel, one he’d never expected could happen. Did you have the plot entirely figured out when you started writing the book or did it take an unexpected turn as the characters grew on the page? A: It’s unusual for me to have an entire plot figured out. I usually start writing with a basic plan in my head, a main character and a good idea of how the story ends. This time the whole...