Books
Book review: Daniel, asleep
April 14th 2011
Hertfordshire writer Anya Cates produces a first novel full of deception, drama and romance in Daniel, asleep...
Book review: Brotherly Sisters
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
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
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...
Didsbury writer Cath Staincliffe to launch her new novel Witness
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
March 10th 2011
From Idea to Reality: local printmaker Kim Major-George talks about her experience with self-publishing
Book review: Dinner with Rover
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.
Book review: Hertfordshire - Who Lies Beneath
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
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
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
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.
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