The rise and rise of Juliet Mushens on October 3, 2021Today, the name ‘Juliet Mushens’ is synonymous with success. Tell us a bit about how you started. I began my career in 2008 at HarperCollins Publishers when I joined the fiction marketing department as an assistant working across their commercial fiction list. I absolutely loved the experience of helping to come up with marketing copy […]
Alan Gorevan’s ‘The Hostage’ is a tour de force! on September 19, 2021Crime fiction is a saturated market. Every month, hundreds of crime fiction titles are released which only serve to add to an already flooded market. Some of these books get significant marketing spend and publicity, but often it is word of mouth that helps most books succeed. Gorevan’s The Hostage is one such title. Lindsey […]
Damien Hine is a bright new voice in the world of fantasy! on September 7, 2021Fantasy is notoriously difficult to write. Not only do you have to worry about creating gripping, compelling characters that leap off the page, you also have to create a completely new world. It sounds like a cake walk, but it certainly isn’t. Published by Monolith Books, Out of Atlas is the first part in the […]
She’s Mine is AA Chaudhuri’s first venture into psychological thriller writing on September 1, 2021Having written two gripping and highly original legal thriller/police procedurals with The Scribe and The Abduction, She’s Mine is AA Chaudhuri’s first venture into psychological thriller writing, a genre that suits her writing style to perfection. Meticulously plotted from start to finish it ticks all the boxes in terms of what every fan of this […]
The Image of Her — searing and incisive, this is a novel to cherish on August 11, 2021It isn’t often that a book touches you in a way that you find yourself thinking about it long after you’ve turned the final page. The Image of Her is one of those books. Stella lives with her mother, a smothering narcissist. When she succumbs to dementia, the pressures on Stella’s world intensify, culminating in […]
AA Chaudhuri manages to pack a punch with her debut as if it’s nothing on May 23, 2021Good thrillers are hard to find these days. AA Chaudhuri, however, manages to pack a punch with her debut as it it’s nothing. First off, I loved the unique premise of this book: a serial killer is targeting former students of The Bloomsbury Academy of Law, killing in line with a pattern corresponding with the […]
The Kindness of Psychopaths has something for everyone on May 16, 2021The literature scene is riddled with crime fiction. Thousands of books in the genre are published every year in a bid to satisfy the seemingly insatiable appetite of readers. In this flooded and highly competitive market, standing out is hard, so when a book achieves to do just that, it is worth exploring why that’s […]
Lahore’s urban planning nightmare on July 1, 2018They often say that in order to judge the scale of development in a country just take a look at its roads. To be honest, Lahore’s roads do not reflect the state of the rest of the country. As far as national standards are concerned, they are far superior. But, are they up to international […]