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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.
Category Archives: Books
Shelf Notes: The Long Fall by Julia Crouch*
The Long Fall is the fourth novel by Julia Crouch and I must read more. I have a feeling that there’s a copy of Cuckoo kicking around somewhere… *waves hand vaguely in direction of double-stacked and disorganised wall of books … 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
Posted in Reading, Shelf Notes
Tagged 1920s, Adele Parks, fiction, Helen Walsh, history, literary disappointments, Martin Pugh, review, writers' tools
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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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Shelf Notes: Darling Monster by Diana Cooper and John Julius Norwich
“I looked in on Chips in London and found the Duchess of Kent, her sister Countess Toren, the reigning Prince and Princess of Liechtenstein, the Ranee of Kapurthala and the King of Egypt’s sister. It was like a stamp album.” … Continue reading
Shelf Notes: High Rising by Angela Thirkell
Angela Thirkell was hugely successful in the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s but rather dropped out of sight in later years. However, she maintained a stalwart readership who pursued her out-of-print titles vigorously. Although aware of AT, I’d never read any … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Thirkell, review
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