Soho Honey – AW Rock Q and Q – Blogival Tour

For my second act of the Blogival festival I’m delighted to welcome A.W. Rock to the ‘stage’ author of the gripping Soho Honey. Hi and thanks for joining me. I believe you spent a while working in Soho, are the characters in your novel inspired by real people? I have spent both my working and…

Addicted to death – Matthew Redford Q and A – Blogival Tour

I love the idea of a good festival, Glastonbury is kicking off this weekend with some great bands and I do like the idea of going for a few days. Until that is, I realise it involves camping, mud, portaloos and lots of other people. Therefore as an alternative I’m taking part in a much…

River of Souls by Kate Rhodes – a review

This is apparently Kate Rhodes’ 4th novel to feature psychologist Alice, however its the first one I’ve read. She is appearing at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in a session on the Sunday called ‘Political corruption’ River of Souls is set in London along the banks of the river Thames. Jude Shelley is…

The Frozen Dead by Bernard Minier – a review

As I mentioned previously in a review, I am not usually a big fan of translated novels, and probably wouldn’t normally pick them out of choice. However the recent books I’ve read haven’t really blown me away, the last really good book I read was by Pierre Lemaitre and translated from French. Therefore when picking…