Elizabeth Baines

Today is official publication day. It's an understatement to say I'm chuffed. These things are always a little fuzzed nowadays - ad...

Down Dene Road through the falling leaves last night to the Nazarene Theological College and another Didsbury Festival event, a reading by p...

If you go to Taurus Bar on Canal Street tonight or tomorrow you can catch a very entertaining and also moving 45 minutes of theatre, as I di...

A great afternoon at the Didsbury Arts Festival yesterday. First, down to Pizza Express and a lovely hour with Adele Geras who read to us ...

The room was packed last night for our 'Talking Fiction' event, and thanks so much to all who came. I meant to take a photo of the a...

I went down this afternoon and photographed both sides of the great display of books by authors taking part in the Didsbury Arts Festival , ...

I am at this present moment feeling sick - with excitement and nerves. An hour or so ago the doorbell went, and there was the postman with ...

First, a PS note: I should have mentioned that if you order Too Many Mapgies from the Salt website, there's 20% off (20% off all Salt t...

I am thrilled to say that I've just had a phone call from Salt this morning to say that they've received delivery of Too Many Magpie...

Yesterday morning I had to go down to West Didsbury, and since that's where our Didsbury Arts Festival event is happening on 26th , I t...

Red letter day today. First, I have a lovely review of Balancing on the Edge of the World from Jim Murdoch on his 'Truth About Lies...

Well, I bought myself a colour printer. Not that I needed to, on this occasion: turned out Carl's partner Madeleine could print the pos...

I'm hoping to have my Manchester official launch in the new downstairs bar extension in Cornerhouse, as the lovely Claire who hosted a g...

Well, I'm back from Wales (my exhausting working holiday!) and it's back to the writing life, or should I say, the writing-related l...

OK, so there are only just over three weeks to go to the publication of my novel Too Many Magpies - just time to write a review of my colle...

It's funny, the way one particular story will just take off and run and run - sometimes without your quite knowing about it, rather like...

Sorry for the blackout on my blogs at the moment: I'm up the mountain again, this time to help out with decorating work: too busy to blo...

Latest in the Salt Just One Book Campaign: you can nominate and vote for the book published by Salt which has been most important to you, an...

Ann suggested this 1987 novel which she'd enjoyed years ago, narrated by the adult Maggie who is looking back on a late-thirties and ear...