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Is £7,200 a fair price to makeover a bathroom the size of a postage stamp?

I’ve talked about Aunty Sue before (A very Scottish lunch). She’s lived in Leith all her life and will be 88 in January.  She’s pretty hale and hearty but recently she’d been finding it tricky to get in and out of … Continue reading

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one trailer, one minute = one book sale?

The Food of Ghosts trailer is here! Yeh hey! I’d never heard of book trailers until I read a blog post about them on a Southern Writers Network.  I found the idea intriguing. I then read another blog  post on … Continue reading

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How cosmopolitan is Leith?

Some of you who have been following my blog, will know that I am a Leither and that I LOVE Leith. So you can imagine how thrilled I was when Emily Dodd,  the Reader in Residence at Leith Library,  asked me to … Continue reading

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The Next Big Thing: Mouseman by Mark Woodward

If you  remember  two weeks ago  Emily Dodds (AKA Aunty Emily) asked me if I would like to be tagged in her blog as part of ‘The Next Big Thing’. I said yes. Here’s how it works: a writer answers ten questions about an … Continue reading

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The Launch of Food of Ghosts

A huge thanks to all who came to Blackwell’s Bookshop last Thursday and helped make the launch of Food of Ghosts the success it was! Also a big thanks to Events Manager Ann Landmann at Blackwell’s for all  the support. … Continue reading

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The Next Big Thing – and all you ever wanted to know about Food of Ghosts, apart from who done it ;o)

Last week Emily Dodds (AKA Aunty Emily) asked me if I would like to be tagged in her blog as part of ‘The Next Big Thing’. I said yes. Here’s how it works: A writer answers ten questions about an upcoming … Continue reading

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Meet DS Louisa Townsend: Feisty. Fearless. Vulnerable. And miles away from home.

Detective Sergeant Louisa Townsend is the feisty female protagonist in my new crime thriller, Food of Ghosts, which is set on the tiny coral atoll of South Tarawa, in the Republic of Kiribati.  To celebrate the books’s launch on Thursday … Continue reading

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Are writers performing monkeys?

The launch for Food of Ghosts is one week today on the 8th November.  Yeh hey! If you want to come and help celebrate it’s much awaited arrival, do give Blackwell’s bookshop a ring – but you’ll have to be … Continue reading

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