Elizabeth Baines

John suggested this novel set in an Irish border town in the early 60s, which begins, 'When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty ...

It's a long time since we held the discussion of this book, Jenny's choice, and in the meantime my head has been stuffed with my W...

At last I reached the end of the latest draft of my wip - the typing up of it, that is. (I now have to read through the typescript and ed...

WIP progress report: I have been sitting still for so long now that I have a sore knee - argh! And because of that, and because I'm so n...

Another review of Used to Be to bring me back to my blog in spite of the demands of the WIP. Helen Walters writes a lovely response to the ...

Still stuck like glue to my manuscript, so still not blogging properly, but in the meantime here's another nice review for Used to Be, t...

Pretty thrilled with this review of Used to Be on Book Muse. It's short, but then it's not how much you say but what you say: B...

Tim Love's review of Used to Be, based on his previous blog notes, is on Everybody's Reviewing. He begins: The Mandaeans of s...

Before Christmas, on the publication of Used to Be, Deborah Grace came to interview me for the Didsbury Community Index magazine. She asked ...

The New Year (well, the working New Year) kicks off for me with a great review of Used to Be on the A Life in Books blog. The poet Gillian...

It's a while now since I was delighted to receive from Nicholas Royle the latest production of his Nightjar short story imprint, a...

I'm thrilled to be involved with this project, a collaboration between Galley Beggar Press and Salt, intended to provide refuge for t...

I'm afraid this 1965 book didn't manage to compete with Christmas for our group. We met to discuss it in the pub just before our C...

Happy festive season!  Well, it's been a very busy year for me, and as a result I haven't blogged much, in spite of periodi...

On Friday evening Chrissie Gittins launched her wonderful new collection of stories, Between Here and Knitwear  (Unthank), a lovely even...

A lovely review of Used to Be by Hannah Stevens on the Everybody's Reviewing blog , which opens thus: 'A collection packed with...

Here are the copies of Used to Be packed up and addressed to the winners of the Goodreads giveaway . Congratulations to the 10 winners,...

Katie Lumsden, who reviewed Used to Be so generously on her blog, Books and Things, also has a YouTube channel in which she talks about h...

A really lovely review from Katie Lumsden on her excellent blog, Just Books and Things. I'm streaming with cold and stuck at home feeli...

Charlie Place has written about Used to Be on her blog, The Worm Hole. I met Charlie in June when we were both invited to the Simenon eve...