Today, I'm delighted to welcome Helena Fairfax to talk about her holiday plans and her new summer novel, Felicity at the Cross Hotel. I asked Helena to tell us a little about her book: A quaint hotel in the Lake District. The Cross Hotel is the perfect getaway. Or is it? Felicity Everdene needs a break from the family business. Driving through the Lake District to the Cross Hotel, past the shining lake and the mountains, everything seems perfect. But Felicity soon discovers

I'm always on the lookout for books to take on holiday, so I'm delighted that Georgina Troy has dropped by today to talk about holiday reading and her new summer novel, The Boardwalk by the Sea. I'll hand over to Georgina to tell us about her book... Georgina: When Sacha Collins, cafe owner and sundae-maker extraordinaire, meets Italian archaeologist, Alessandro Salvatore in Rome, she's grateful to him for being her tour guide. Now he’s turned up in the seaside village where

Today, Karen King drops by on her Blog Tour for her new novel, The Cornish Hotel by the Sea, to talk holiday reading... Me: Hi Karen, The Cornish Hotel by the Sea sounds like an ideal holiday read. Can you tell us a little about it? Karen: Ellie Truman’s widowed mum is struggling to keep Gwel Teg, the family hotel in Cornwall, afloat. Ellie is determined to do everything in her power to help her, even if that means moving back to the sleepy Cornish village she fled from brok

Which books do writers read on holiday? Today I'm talking to author Marie Laval about the books she'll be reading, and her own summer book 'A Spell in Provence.' When an ancient spell weaves its dark magic in the hills of Provence... With few roots in England and having just lost her job, Amy Carter decides to give up on home and start a new life in France, spending her redundancy package turning an overgrown Provençal farmhouse, Bellefontaine, into a successful hotel. Though

One of the great pleasures of a summer holiday is sitting in the sun and reading a book. A book I'll be reading on the beach this summer is 'Death on a Longship' by Marsali Taylor. In the book, yachtswoman Cass Lynch has just landed her dream job: she’s the skipper of a replica Viking longship in a high-profile Hollywood film, starring the famous actress Favelle. It takes Cass back to her native Shetland Islands, and the father she’s barely spoken to since she ran away to sea