DoveGreyReader on Cyclone

Cyclone asked dovegreyreader to introduce her blog and her reading life …

http://dovegreyreader.typepad.com/

Dovegreyreader

I am a Gt Ormond Street trained paediatric nurse by training and until recently had worked as a health visitor in rural Devon for thirty years. Books have always formed a huge part of my life and I started dovegreyreader [...]

Elizabeth Baines’ Blog

Elizabeth Baines

Elizabeth Baines is a writer of prose fiction and plays. Her blog elizabethbaines.blogspot subtitled ‘How to be a writer without ending up sozzled, behind bars or insane‘ is a diary of her writing life — her thoughts about the writing process and the writing life, with occasional comment on the books she [...]

Salt invite you to a Christmas Beano

Boozing, Schmoozing and Perusing

12 December 2008 18:30?21:30 The Horse Hospital Bloomsbury, London

Christmas Party

Poetry & Short Story readings from JULIA BIRD, JANE HOLLAND, SUE HUBBARD and MARK WALDRON

Fill your Stockings at the Salt Book Stall

Pay Bar

Secret Santa presents for all the good boys and [...]

Steerforth: Age of Uncertainty

A Conversation About Dreams …

Katy Evans-Bush’s book tour A Conversation About Dreams is being planned. Steerforth will be one stop on the tour and we’re profiling his blog here on Cyclone, here’s Phil’s description of his blog:

The Age of Uncertainty was conceived out of boredom during a week in bed caused [...]

Christopher Horton reviews Julia Bird on Eyewear

wednesday, november 26, 2008

Guest Review: Horton on Bird

Christopher Horton reviews Hannah and the Monk by Julia Bird

In Hannah and the Monk , Julia Bird?s first book, almost nothing is as it first appears. One example is “Clip”, which if it begins with the bright optimism of [...]

Tim Jones: Books in the Trees

Tim Jones is taking part in Tania Hershman’s book tour, Walking the White Road, through his blog “Tim Jones: Books in the Trees”

Tim Jones. Photo © Sonali Mukherji

Tim Jones is a short story writer, novelist and poet who lives in Wellington, New Zealand. His most recent books are short story collection Transported, [...]

Jen Hamilton-Emery shortlisted in the 2008 Pandora Award

Women in Publishing

Jen Hamilton-Emery has been shortlisted in the prestigious Pandora Award run by Women in Publishing .

The winners of the awards will be announced and presented at the Women In Publishing Christmas Party, held at the University Women’s Club, London on December 10, 2008.

Jen Hamilton-Emery

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Pedal Power

Sometimes it’s the smallest things that make the biggest difference and I am pleased to report that our journey into and back from work is now greatly improved thanks to the purchase of a child seat for the bike. In the mornings we drop our toddler off at nursery, which is only down the [...]

Scott Packs previews "The Scent of Cinnamon" by Charles Lambert

Not to be sniffed at

Sarah Salway’s short story collection Leading the Dance was one of my best reads of 2007, as was The Littlest Hitler by Ryan Boudinot (the latter possibly my favourite collection ever). This year it has taken me till November to find another to match them and in [...]

Sue Guiney: Me and Others

Sue Guiney, photo by Andre Ainsworth

Sue Guiney is covering Tania Hershman’s book tour, Walking the White Road. She has a personal Web site here http://www.sueguiney.com/.

Sue Guiney’s blog, Me and Others can be found here: http://sueguineyblog.blogspot.com/

Sue Guiney is a novelist, poet and playwright living in London. Her first novel, Tangled Roots, was [...]