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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.
Tag Archives: 1920s
Friday Favourites
This week’s selection of things that have interested me this week include the most beautiful bookshop I’ve ever seen; a fascinating lunch party in the 1920s, the intriguing life of a New York heiress and the sad tale of how … Continue reading
Posted in Recent links I've loved
Tagged 1920s, architecture, bookshop, Edinburgh, Hugette Clark, the Algonquin Round Table
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12 Books of Christmas – Set of F Scott Fitzgerald novels to give away
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” Alma Books are a fantastic independent publisher who produce some great original writing but I’m also a huge fan of their Alma Classics list. When the … 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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The Year After by Martin Davies and The Great Silence by Juliet Nicolson
A period to which I’d never given much thought, and one which is glossed over in the main, is that immediately after the end of World War One. There’s a great deal of writing, both fiction and non-fiction about the … Continue reading
Posted in Shelf Notes
Tagged 1920s, fiction, Juliet Nicolson, Martin Davies, non-fiction, review
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