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The Novel Nights and Cheap Imitation literary party
Novel Nights is joining up with Cheap Imitation for a UK and USA literary salon event. We’ll feature genre and literary fiction, 15th century guitar …
Submissions for Novel Nights Writers Showcase
We’re having a transatlantic party Submissions for August 8th We’re having a special Novel Nights on August 8th with music and readings from novels by …
Review: A taut, well-written YA thriller by Tracy Darnton
The story Amber goes on the run when her father tracks her down within the care system. She’s running from her father’s violence and controlling …
Remembering Elisabeth Standen
We were very sorry to hear that Elisabeth Standen died this week. Elisabeth had been a regular at Novel Nights since it started and her …
Book Review: The Silent Treatment
What a love story. The concept for this book is clever. A middle aged couple don’t speak to each other for six months, despite loving …
Book Review of To Tell You the Truth
To Tell You the Truth by Gilly Macmillan is a witty, layered novel with a professional crime writer as protagonist. This peep behind the curtain …
The Novel Nights Book Club – watch again
Our book club supports authors who are being published during lockdown. We chat about the books from a writer’s point of view. Listen again Buy …
Anna Vaught on her novel, Saving Lucia
Novel Nights interviews Anna Vaught, whose third novel, Saving Lucia, was published by Bluemoose Books on the 30th April 2020. Saving Lucia is based on …
Novel Competitions 2020
An overview of novel competitions across the UK with closing dates for submissions. Good luck Competition What they say Closing Date Website Link …
Book Review: Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins
This is a superbly written novel with metaphoric intensity that is never overdone – ‘lying on her back like a tiny medieval knight on a tomb.’ …
How Do We Find The Right Stories? A blog by Mimi Thebo
Twelve years ago, I dreamed a dejected boy, under a tree, where grassy hills led to a dramatic mountain range. I watched him build his …
The Penguin Publishing Roadshow came to Bristol
A hot crowded room in the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. A table stacked with novels with a cosy alter-candle arrangement and behind them, Penguin tote …