GUEST POST: My Love Affair with Detectives by Elspeth Latimer

THE LOST DETECTIVE Elspeth Latimer (Instagram / Facebook) Story Machine (storymachines.co.uk) £10.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop or through Zoe’s Book Tours Why do detectives have such a hold on me? I discovered Philip Marlowe in my teens, and VI Warshawski in my twenties, and ever since I’ve been hooked on detective fiction. Whether contemporary […]

GUEST POST: Finding Quint by Robert Lautner

QUINT Robert Lautner (robert-lautner.com) The Borough Press (boroughpress.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop I started Quint around 2012. Yep. Seriously. It wasn’t in shape to be submitted until 2013 and I had just finished writing The Road to Reckoning which was due for publication in 2014, to be followed by The […]

GUEST POST: So it’s a Historical Book by JOHN STEELE

RAT ISLAND John Steele Silvertail Books (silvertailbooks.com) £12.99 ‘So it’s a historical book.’ The NYPD sergeant stood in the Fifth Precinct, in Elizabeth Street in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown. He had delivered a statement of fact with all the blunt authority you’d expect from a New York cop. I blanched for a […]

GUEST POST: The Top Five(ish) Horror Movies that Actually Scared Me by SARAH LANGAN

GOOD NEIGHBOURS Sarah Langan (sarahlangan.com) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £8.99 As a horror movie lover, I’ve developed fear calluses. This probably started back during the summer before fifth grade, when I rented Dawn of the Dead from the local Long Island video store, Video Quest, where the owner was always giving me the stink eye because he felt […]

Meet TIGER-BLUE ESPOSITO from Ruth Ware’s ONE BY ONE

ONE BY ONE by Ruth Ware is published in hardback (priced £12.99) by Harvill Secker on 12th November 2020.

Guest Post: Finishing the SALVATION SEQUENCE by Peter F. Hamilton

THE SAINTS OF SALVATION Peter F. Hamilton (http://peterfhamilton.co.uk) Pan Mac (https://www.panmacmillan.com/) £20.00 The fine people at Macmillan have asked me to say a few words about the experience of writing Saints of Salvation. And I hope you’ve been enjoying the series so far too! So after publishing over twenty books, I still find finishing a […]

INFLUENCES: What Inspired WIDOW’S WELCOME by D.K. Fields

WIDOW’S WELCOME D.K. Fields (dkfields.blogspot.com) Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £8.99 What inspired Widow’s Welcome? In short: “Mi dispiace, il mio italiano non va bene”. This became a mantra for us when travelling in Italy – “I’m sorry, my Italian is not good”. Whether Kath was trying to order peach ice cream but kept saying ‘fish’, […]

INFLUENCES: Scooby-Doo Rules by Fran Dorricott

AFTER THE ECLIPSE Fran Dorricott (www.frandorricott.com) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £7.99 To celebrate the release of her new novel, After the Eclipse, I’m very excited to welcome Fran Dorricott to Reader Dad to talk about her influences. Thanks for having me! When I first sat down to write After the Eclipse I didn’t think I would later […]

INFLUENCES: Rave Culture by RICHARD WILLIAMS

MOSTYN THOMAS AND THE BIG RAVE Richard Williams (richardwilliamsbooks.com) Graffeg Books (www.graffeg.com) £8.99 Thanks for asking me to write a piece for your blog, Matt! The idea of Mostyn Thomas and the Big Rave grew from the realisation, many years later, of a colourful and unique time in rural Welsh history that went largely undocumented […]

GUEST POST: SNUGGLE the Cat by Frank Hinks

THE TALES OF RAMION: The Dream Thief The Land of Lost Hair Frankie and the Dancing Furies Creatures of the Forest Frank Hinks (www.ramion-books.com) Perronet Press £12.99 each To mark the release of Frank Hinks’ quriky new childrens series, The Tales of Ramion, I’m very happy to welcome Frank to Reader Dad, and present a […]