Saturday Signings
Evelyne Morris
Coma
Saturday 27 April, from 10am
Having survived a deadly assault, Mellissa Harris is in a medically induced coma.Whilst unconscious she travels back in time to re-live the life of her 19th-century namesake, Mellissa Goodchild, living on a sugar plantation with nearly 400 slaves. Is this novel a 21st-century detective story? Yes, some of it. Is it a 21st-century life-and-death hospital drama? Yes, some of it. But mainly, it is a 19th-century slave story set in Jamaica during the build-up to the Christmas slave rebellion of 1831-32 - and it is a love story between the abolitionist wife of a white sugar plantation and slave owner, and an African slave, both unwittingly caught up in the rebellion.
Paperback, £10.99
Amanda Richardson
The 'Ravaged Castles' series
Saturday 11 May, from 10am
Come and meet one of America's bestselling Romance writers, and take home a raunchy romance to brighten your weekend. You have a choice of covers - which one do you prefer?
“With verve, wit, and randy confidence, the second standalone entry in Richardson’s Ravaged Castles series conjures a delicious marriage-of-convenience scenario, edged with shades of Beauty-and-the-Beast stories, and powered by Richardson’s commitment never to pen a dull scene. ” (Booklife, Editor's Pick)
Paperbacks, £9.99
Beautiful editions - sparkling writing.
Sonia Velton
The Nightingale's Castle
Saturday 18 May from 10am
We are delighted to welcome Sonia Velton with her third novel, The Nightingale’s Castle, published by HarperCollins. This is a fictionalise re-telling of Hungarian Countess Erzsébet Báthory’s story. Báthory is rumoured to have murdered 600 peasant girls in Hungary in the late 1500s. However, Velton claims she was a powerful older woman brought down by jealous men wanting her land. The novel aims to right this historic wrong.
“Sonia’s writing has the most gorgeous sensuous quality, while the characterisation held me absolutely along with the skilful plotting."
Velton will also be signing Blackberry and Wild Rose, shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, and The Image of Her, a literary thriller.