Category: Author of the Week

Cassandra Clare is one of those writers that seems to make it look easy to create not just one imaginative, gripping, fantasy book, but a whole series. Her writing to me is flawless and...

When I first started out writing my blog I was a bit unsure how authors would take to new bloggers, and how long it would be before anyone would ask me to review their...

Wow, where do I start? Veronica Roth started me on a genre of books that I had never read before, the ‘Young Adult’ (YA) Genre. Now I know that I don’t quite fit that...

The first Jenny Colgan book that I read was "West End Girls". I loved the book, but for a few years after that I didn’t read any more of Jenny’s books. That was until...

When I was at Primary School, I entered and won a competition along with five other students, though these day I can’t remember what the competition was. The prize was book vouchers. One afternoon,...

When the first ‘Shopaholic’ book was released, "The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic", I became aware of Sophie Kinsella and immediately fell in love with ‘Becky Bloomwood’. Upon realising that the book was going...

In 2003, a book was released which caused a storm. It was a mysterious book, full of intrigue. It caused a furore, and I had to read it. "The Da Vinci Code" was the...

A few years back I got into the YA Genre of books when I read "Beautiful Creatures" by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, even though they’re not aimed at my age. I loved the...

There were plenty of books that I read as a child, many of which I fell in love with, and passed that love on to my children. There is one collection of books that...

Helen Fielding I have read all of Helen Fielding’s books, including her short story that she wrote for Oxfam, in the book "Ox-Tales". The books that I have plenty of fond memories of though,...

Enid Blyton They say that books are magical, and take you to far away lands, lands that you wish existed. Well Enid Blyton was the first person to teach me this. When I first...

Browsing my local Waterstones book store on a miserable, wet afternoon a few years ago, my eyes fell upon a gorgeous book cover that stood out from the others on the shelf. I had...

I first heard of Harry Potter when the first movie ("Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone") was released. My eldest son would have been around five or six at the time and was desperate...

With the passing of Sir Terry Pratchett this week, it felt only correct that he should feature as the Author of the Week. A famed author of more than 70 works, selling more than...

From Chick-lit to Young adult and now Lifestyle, dieting books, Kate isn’t afraid to write in more than one category. Her Chick-lit books are full of romance, feisty women and a warmth to them....

If you have ever fancied picking up a book that will absorb you into the characters lives and have you laughing all the way through, then Lynda’s books are for you. They have that...

My very first Roald Dahl book that I read was "George’s Marvellous Medicine". The story is about a little boy who hated his granny so much that he decided to change her usual medicine...

I first fell in love with Carole Matthews from her debut book, “Let’s Meet On Platform 8″. I remember going into my local library (which unfortunately is no longer there), to reserve her books...