Literary and Non fiction

Mar 092012
 
Chris Priestley Q & A (Mister Creecher): March 2012

Chris Priestley (pictured above at a book festival last year) is the extremely talented author of the Tales of Terror series (Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror, Tales of Terror from the Black Ship, and Tales of Terror from the Tunnel’s Mouth – plus the very rare The Teacher’s Tales of Terror for World Book Day […]

Mar 092012
 
Mister Creecher by Chris Priestley

Mister Creecher by Chris Priestley (Bloomsbury, PB, £6.99, out now) It is always an enjoyable thing to see a talented writer challenging himself with an ambitious project. Here we have an exceedingly talented writer doing just such a thing with Mister Creecher, his latest novel. It would have been very easy for the author to produce […]

Dec 132011
 
Midwinter Chills:  The Ghost Stories of M.R. James

The British national tradition of Christmas ghost stories is something of which I was uttely ignorant until one December a couple of years ago, when a friend introduced me to the work of M. R. James.  Widely regarded as being one of the finest writers of ghost stories in the English language, James would hold […]

Nov 012011
 
Joanne Harris Q & A: October 2011

In October I had the opportunity to interview author Joanne Harris. Most of us will know her name due to the Chocolat movie. Of late she has broken into the Young Adult market with her Norse mythology fantasy title, Runemarks (out now, £7.99, published by Corgi). The sequel to that book, Runelight, was released in […]