Author of the Sole Brethren novel series. Pen name of Jane Peyton (author of factual books about alcohol & architecture).Fave place to be - the pub with friends
I love chancing upon community libraries. This one is on Southover St in Brighton's Hanover district. Southover St is one of the city's steepest thoroughfares so now people slumped on the chair for a rest can open the box door and pull out a donated book to read.
A gripping novel by @cathrynkemp about a real life herbalist who supplied undetectable poison to women who needed their brutal husbands dead.
The writing is so vivid I could imagine the smells, sounds & sights of mid-17th C Rome & Palermo where it is set.
'The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid'
On 16th December 1775 Jane Austen was born, and 247 years later we're all still completely obsessed with her work: https://t.co/EUqW2ubZJy ❤️
@authorcarley Many thanks Carley! My two novels are Sole Brethren: If The Shoe Fits, and Sole Brethren: Left To Their Own Devices. Covers images attached.
I describe my fiction writing as #GlamorousJollity (amusing stylish characters who revere art, culture, food, drink & happy times.). I'm always looking for fiction to read that fits into that genre. If you know of any, would you please send me recommendations?
Thanks!
There's a fountain in Budapest that looks like a book: every few seconds a sheet of water blasts forth from the book's spine, creating the illusion that an invisible force is turning the pages of this marble tome.
@mworner I've already plotted the third but have something else to write first. Better get writing that other thing so I can return to Cordelia, Rex and Elodie!
The Japanese word “tsundoku” describes the secret habit of acquiring books and then letting them pile up without necessarily ever reading them. I plead guilty! For some, just possessing a book is sometimes enough (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Well hello good looking! My latest novel. Sole Brethren: Left To Their Own Devices. I've come up with the name of a new genre - 'Glamorous Jollity' to describe it.
Reviews https://t.co/68lfhu3Kut
Here's a purchase link
https://t.co/BX5izsa8Ug
#GlamorousJollity
This is a 300-year-old book wheel kept in the Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla, Mexico: it allowed 18th century researchers to have up to seven books open at once
A kind of analog of today's multi-tab browsers.
There's a fountain in Budapest that looks like a book: every few seconds a sheet of water blasts forth from the book's spine, creating the illusion that an invisible force is turning the pages of this marble tome.