Ten great books set in Iceland. Iceland, known as the "Land of Fire and Ice", is a breathtaking bucket-list destination that captivates travellers with

I thought I’d offer you something a little different this week: a series of autumnal landscapes to inspire and delight us, but all of them in settings featured in the books we have published …

Foreign Affairs has launched a fundraising campaign to secure the future of its Theatre Translator Mentorship

Teresa Solana returns with The Butterfly House, translated from Catalan by Peter Bush, which follows Black Storms as the second instalment in her series featuring Deputy Inspector Norma Forester, a…

Today I’m taking part in a blog tour for Corylus Books, a lovely indie publisher with a focus on translated crime fiction. I really enjoyed Black Storms, the first in Teresa Solana’s stories featur…

No money, no future – a motive for murder? By Teresa Solana Translated by Peter Bush Published by Corylus Books 223 pages ISBN 978-1917586283 Publication date 12 September 2026 I was sent an electr…

Source: Review copy from Corylus Books – thank you ! Translated by Peter Bush I loved the first of Catatan author Teresa Solana’s Barcelona Nights series of novels from Corylus Books, B…

No money, no future – a motive for murder? By Teresa Solana Translated by Peter Bush Published by Corylus Books 223 pages ISBN 978-1917586283 Publication date 12 September 2026 I was sent an electr…

Today I am sharing my thoughts on the brand new novel from Teresa Solana, The Butterfly House, translated to English by Peter Bush. My thanks to Ewa Sherman and Corylus Books for the tour invite an…

We talk to the Catalan crime author Teresa Solana about her new Barcelona-based mystery, The Butterfly House, featuring police detective Norma Forester

We talk to the Catalan crime author Teresa Solana about her new Barcelona-based mystery, The Butterfly House, featuring police detective Norma Forester

The most important part of the moving process (other than the emotional impact on the children and the cat) was the library. How do you weed out the books you simply must take back to the UK? You m…

General/Disclaimer I thought I’d share some links and communities for indie authors looking for resources as I know it can be difficult to even know where to start. Starting off without a reader ba…

Plus the death of Kath Pettingill and true crime on the Australian screen

Reykjavík, 30th June 1980 It’s six in the morning. Iceland is bathed in beautiful summer weather. The whole country, those who voted for Védís and those who didn’t, are waking up to a new reality. The...

Polite restraint goes out the window in an angry, funny novel about porn, activism and the manosphere

The two film adaptations of Westlake's master thief nobody talks about

My July 2025 study establishing that literary agents almost never read submissions for quality drew some notoriety and even animosity, but a surprising result was that a few people who worked in publi...

Spring is the time of year I buy typewriters. It must be the change of season—green shoots pushing up through the thawing earth, bulbs budding and blooming, trees leafing out—which has nothing to d…