Mel Sherratt Kindle No.1, 2 & 3 bestseller in Australia
Mel Sherratt takes the top three chart positions on the Australian Amazon Kindle bestseller list with The Estate Series. Taunting the Dead is #9 and Watching Over You is #47. In its first week of publication Watching Over you was #1 in the Kindle Charts in both the UK and US.
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Janet MacLeod Trotter discusses her inspiration from her grandparents’ long lost diaries and letters from India
Janet’s latest novel, The Planter’s Bride (Sequel to The Tea Planter’s Daughter), is partly inspired by the diaries that she discovered, which give rich details of her maternal grandparents’ lives in India in the 1920s and 30s. Granddad Bob worked for the India Forest Service and her intrepid Granny Sydney followed him out from Scotland to marry and live the itinerant life of a forester’s wife. In this wonderful picture Janet’s mother, Sheila, is seen being hoisted in a pram on poles, to carry her through the jungles and Himalayan pathways:
Read more on Janet’s blog.
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Rupert Wallis interview with the Western Morning News
‘If I told you that Rupert Wallis’s debut novel was underpinned by big philosophical questions about God and love and trust, it would perhaps imply a somewhat weighty and challenging tone. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Those deep universal themes do indeed inhabit the heart of The Dark Inside, but its pages burst with the vibrant spirit of a fragile, but brave, young hero, alongside a strong supporting cast of flawed, but brightly painted characters, and flying colours of adventure and suspense, all delivered in a sparsely compelling narrative style.’ Western Morning News
Read more of the interview
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IF YOU’RE NOT THE ONE by Jemma Forte No. 16 in the UK Kindle charts
Jemma Forte reached #16 in the Women’s Fiction Kindle charts this week. If You’re Not the One is currently under the promotional offer of 99p.
