Out and about today and it was great to see fellow brummies Natalie Marlow @[email protected] Mike Gayle in Solihull Waterstones and also Jane Casey as well as in Sainsbury’s!

Mike Gayle is a new-to-me author (thanks to Amazon’s First Reads), and I definitely think I’ll be checking out his full length books. Nice and near novella to read in one sitting. #Romance #Fiction #BookTwitter goodreads.com/review/show/75…

Happy May reading readers! My Prima Magazine picks are Morgan Dick Claire Lynch, Ruth Jones, Rod Reynolds, Catriona Stewart A.A.Dhand Eleni Kyriacou 🍸🖤⭐️ Florence Knapp. With Ajay Chowdhury in my series feature and Serenity Booksellers as indie bookshop. Thank you as always to

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📢 Audible Bargain Alert 📢 For a strictly limited period, Audible are offering #TheAppeal audiobook in a cracking 2-for-1 deal 🤑 and as #TheTwyfordCode is too, you could choose both 😉 But hurry, the offer is strictly limited 👇 audible.co.uk/pd/The-Appeal-…

NEW We asked the novelist @MikeGayle to recommend us five heartwarming feel good books that leave their reader comforted and entertained. fivebooks.com/best-books/fee… ft. Ruth Hogan

ICYMI the best feel-good books, recommended by Mike Gayle (including one in which at least ten people are murdered): fivebooks.com/best-books/fee…

Astonishing. I would love to know how much they paid the writer to enter a ChatGPT prompt to spit this out. Because I know some very talented #bookbloggers and. #bookreviewers who would do this for half the money and the books would.. y’know.. exist. 404media.co/chicago-sun-ti…

Four original crime authors. One criminally good event. Join Rob Parker Tom Mead Guy Hale and me for this awesome crime panel on Saturday 5th July at the Repton Festival. Tickets and info: reptonfestival.littleboxoffice.com/events/118581

Sleuthing vicars, cat detectives, Thursday murder clubs. Join us at Penn Library, Wolverhampton, on Tuesday 10th June to hear all about the rise of cosy crime! Wolves Libraries The Crime Writers’ Association #NationalCrimeReadingMonth

My absolute JOY to be hosting our second author panel at Manchester Libraries #LoveStoriesEtc with Mike Gayle alexandrapotter and Lucy Dillon talking about their novels #HopeStreet, #MoreConfessions and #IrresponsibleAdult! Tickets going FAST!

Thank you so much! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

AJ West #AlwaysTogether Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧 Ian Giles Hope Street by Mike Gayle #HopeStreet Mike Gayle Hodder & Stoughton (no longer active) Alainna Georgiou #BookReview …thingsthroughmyletterbox.blogspot.com/2025/02/hope-s…

Mike Gayle Samuel Burr Chris Whitaker C.L. Taylor Georgina Moore Listen on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/show/4hjEV8piN… Or search for Shelf Life wherever you get your podcasts from!

Listen here!😊

Could not be more delighted to share this. Thanks to Steve Coventry-Panton for such a fun cover!

So happy to finally share this 🥳

Did I love bomb Lucy Dillon alexandrapotter and Mike Gayle here at Manchester Libraries #LoveStoriesEtc festival? Yes, yes I did. Were they kind and gracious and tolerant of my kiddy excitement? Yes, yes they were. Fantastic closing event for Day 1, can't wait for tomorrow!!

Team Blogger My latest is a review of the excellent 'Half A World Away' by Mike Gayle. middleagefanclub.co.uk/2025/07/25/boo…

🎪 We are announcing our programme, and ticket sales will go live on our website this Friday! #BirminghamEvents #BirminghamLiteratureFestival #LiteratureFestival #BookEvents