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Hi, I’m Vanessa and welcome to my site.
In 2015, I won Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect event and my first novel, Death Will Find Me, was published in February, 2019. The second Tessa Kilpatrick book will be out early next year and in the meantime, I’ll soon be launching a series of art crime thrillers.
You can find out more about me and what I’m up to by following the links at the top, and there are contact details below if you want to ask me any questions or invite me to talk at your bookshop, library or festival.
Author Archives: vanessa
Home Exchanging – I’ll swap you mine if you swap yours
After deciding that we would try home exchanging and choosing a company to register with (here’s my blog post about that), it was time to put our own listing together and start arranging our swaps. There is masses of information … Continue reading
Recent reading
I read prodigiously – both from a lifelong love of books but also because running the Glenogle and Bell Book Company means that I need to keep up to date with new titles so that I can send our customers … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, Adele Parks, fiction, Helen Walsh, history, literary disappointments, Martin Pugh, review, writers' tools
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Home Exchanging – travel not tourism
You love your home so it follows that other people would love your home – right? And imagine that by letting other people stay in your home you could be reading in their lavender-scented Provencal garden; lounging by their Californian … Continue reading
Josephine Pullein Thompson on Last Word, Radio 4
After Josephine passed away a couple of weeks ago it was lovely to hear that her life was to be commemorated by Last Word, Radio 4’s obituary programme. I was asked about my memories of her and about her writing … Continue reading
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Tagged Fidra Books, Josephine Pullein Thompson, pony books
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Josephine Pullein Thompson, 1924 – 2014
It was with enormous sadness that I heard of the passing of Josephine Pullein Thompson last week. She was one of Fidra Books’ first authors and I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting her twice. If you’d told the … Continue reading
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Tagged Fidra Books, Josephine Pullein Thompson, pony books
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