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Book review: Daniel, asleep

Rating: 2

April 14th 2011

Hertfordshire writer Anya Cates produces a first novel full of deception, drama and romance in Daniel, asleep...

Book review: Brotherly Sisters

Rating: 2

April 13th 2011

The Bronte sisters – Anne, Emily and Charlotte – are known the world over for their tales of romance and wind-swept moors. Their story has been told numerous times but never before in verse, until now...

Book review: Circular walks in the borough of Broxbourne

Rating: 2

April 12th 2011

Just when you think every walk in the county has been documented, along comes another book to give you the chance to head out for some more exercise...

Book review: Back to the beginning

Rating: 3

April 11th 2011

Top-selling children’s author, Hertfordshire-based Jonathan Stroud is back with the prequel to his Bartimaeus trilogy in Ring of Solomon...

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Rating: 3

April 11th 2011

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Didsbury writer Cath Staincliffe to launch her new novel Witness

Rating: 3

April 5th 2011

Didsbury writer Cath Staincliffe has looked at dark deeds from a new angle in her latest blockbuster thriller

A Dark Anatomy: Robin Blake's detective novel of body-snatchers and scoundrels in 1740s Preston

Rating: 2

April 4th 2011

Lancashire author Robin Blake cut his teeth with television’s Lynda La Plante. Now he has invented his own sleuth. He talks to Roger Borrell Photography by John Cocks

The battle to save Bentham library

Rating: 2

April 4th 2011

Protest meetings and read-ins supported by leading authors are being held to foil plans to close a North Yorkshire library. Terry Fletcher reports

Listen up to the sounds of Suffolk

Rating: 2

March 24th 2011

This month our reviewer Ben Keenan tunes his ear to three CD releases on the Suffolk dialect

Berkhamsted author signing dog book at Ideal Home Show

Rating: 3

March 24th 2011

Hanne Grice, founder of Berkhamsted-based Walk the Dog, will be signing her new book Playing With Your Dog, at this year's Ideal Home Show on March 26th & 27th.

Criminal injustice in the North East

Rating: 2

March 23rd 2011

Jo Haywood sifts through the evidence presented by an arresting new book about ‘criminal injustice’ in the North East

Essex Book Festival

Rating: 3

March 14th 2011

Every year the list of literary stars coming to the county for the Essex Book Festival seems to get longer and 2011 is the same. Pat Parker previews some highlights that are not to be missed

Yvonne Gillon: A life in books

Rating: 2

March 13th 2011

Yvonne Gillon is one of the region’s most respected designers. She's put Marple on the map with her couture wedding designs and has a celebrity following that includes actors Suranne Jones and Trisha Penrose

How to publish your own book: Kim Major-George

Rating: 3

March 10th 2011

From Idea to Reality: local printmaker Kim Major-George talks about her experience with self-publishing

Book review: Dinner with Rover

Rating: 3

February 23rd 2011

If your dog watches every mouthful you eat, longing to try it for himself, a new book might bring an end to those sorrowful, pleading eyes.

Latest Suffolk reads

Rating: 2

February 22nd 2011

A look at some new titles all with a local flavour

Book review: Hertfordshire - Who Lies Beneath

Rating: 2

February 17th 2011

If you like spending time wandering through graveyards, pondering at the writing on the headstones, the book Who Lies Beneath could help you find an answer to your ponderings.

Book Rveiew: Royal Hertfordshire: Murders & Misdemeanours

Rating: 3

February 11th 2011

Hertfordshire writer Pamela Shields has had her latest book published, this time focusing on the county’s many connections with royalty.

Memories of Braughing

Rating: 2

February 7th 2011

THE Braughing Local History Society, East Hertfordshire, has launched two books on behalf of the family of the late Vic Tott.

Book review: The Little Lost Tune

Rating: 2

February 1st 2011

Brookmans Park author Michael Rosenberg continues his successful Bendalot series with his latest book The Little Lost Tune: More Adventures from Bendalot.