Elizabeth Baines

I was in the city centre yesterday afternoon - in Primark, actually, getting socks and marvelling at others buying reindeer-printed knicke...

From time to time people have written to me and asked whether my books are on Kindle, and I'm delighted now to announce that two of my S...

I'm delighted that another of my stories is to be published in the online magazine, East of the Web . If you don't already know East...

Across the moorland from Bolton to Blackburn last night, very appropriate for the Lancashire launch of Red Room: New Short Stories Inspired ...

Last night we had a lovely Red Room evening at the Portico Library with its original Victorian shelves of leather-backed 'Polite Litera...

I'm delighted that today this blog is the latest stop in  Nuala Ní Chonchúir's  tour of her wonderful new chapbook of fla...

Although some of my work has included spooky elements, I don't think I've ever written an out-and-out ghost story before. However, I...

John suggested this novel, which he remembered causing a sensation when it was published in 1984. Set in an unidentified town in the Ameri...

Here's another really super review of Red Room , by short-story writer Elaine Chiew. She calls it ' a daring, playful collection...

It's publication day for Red Room: New Short Stories Inspired by the Brontes , and there two more wonderful reviews. The  Petals and...

Warning: spoiler. It's six weeks now since we discussed this book, the 1960 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel set in the American Deep So...

Red Room: New Short Stories Inspired by the Brontes , to be launched on Friday (1st November)  has already had some very nice reviews. ...

Here I am once more after a silence. I have to tell you that I am quite jealous of those who can go on blogging while they're engage...

I'm writing this in the pause between two sections of my work-in-progress - I've been pretty much immersed in it recently, and si...

I've been away in Wales for three weeks (writing pretty solidly), and got back to find waiting for me my author's copy of Red Roo...

The excellent online magazine The View From Here kicks off its autumn season today, and I'm chuffed to be in the fiction slot, The ...

Warning: spoilers (in abundance). This is a book about which we had to agree to differ. Set in 1936 and the opening years of the twentie...