Elizabeth Baines

My wonderful publisher Salt is running an amazing Spring offer - an unbelievable 70% off selected books! My own novel The Birth Machine is ...

It's not every day you look up from your writing desk and see a heron in the top of the tree just outside!

Well, you can't accuse me of being big-headed. At least, my head simply wasn't big enough to accommodate much beside my recent wr...

I suggested this novella, a fictional parallel of the well-known incident of July 1969 when Senator Edward Kennedy, driving home from a part...

Here's the striking and intriguing cover of Unthology 5, due out in June from Unthank Books, and which I'm thrilled to say includ...

Clare suggested this 2012 Booker-shortlisted novel in which a group holidaying in a villa near Nice (poet and philanderer Joe Jacobs, his ...

So I have something to blog about! I went to this really interesting event at Manchester Blackwell's on Friday night, more of which i...

Trevor suggested this book, the novel on which the acclaimed film Blade Runner was based, speculatively set twenty-four years after the b...

Warning: plot spoil. This Booker-winning novel, Ann's suggestion, concerns historian and ex-war reporter Claudia Hampton who, slowly...

Signings are notoriously unpredictable, if you're not utterly famous, and I sometimes wonder why bookshops bother to hold them at all...

I'm thrilled to have come across a lovely new review of Too Many Magpies, by Michelle Bailat-Jones . Here are some quotes from it tha...

'Falling', my story which was shortlisted and Highly Commended in the Sean O'Faolain competition, can now be read online at Eas...

It was the beginning of December when we discussed this 1971 novel, recommended by Mark, and I've been so preoccupied in the meantime,...

Happy New Year to everyone! It's not a day for a New Year walk here in Manchester: it's wild and wet and dark, even in late morning...

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...