Elizabeth Baines

This will be a short report, as there was a unanimously positive verdict from our group (no argument to report), and it's a fairly light...

Due to my second stinking cold of the winter, I was absent when this book was discussed by our group, which I was sorry to be, since I ver...

I mentioned in my post of January 8th that I was about to write a story that, unlike others I've written recently, wouldn't touch o...

My story 'Bitter, Horned' can now be read on Litro Online . The picture (credit Sandrine Rouja) shows Creeping Wood Sorrel, the ...

John suggested this 1990 novel which opens as 'once-powerful' ex-IRA commander Moran is declining towards death, and his three adult...

I'm delighted to say that another of my stories has been accepted by the excellent  Confingo Magazine . It's yet another of the stor...

The New Year is going well: yesterday I was delighted to hear that a new story, 'Bitter, Horned', will be published on Litro Online ...

Happy New Year! I have started the new year on a bit of a high, as my story 'Kiss' which early last year was longlisted in the Sho...

Jenny's suggestion, this very short novel has been a runaway hit in its author's native Japan, and in translation worldwide. It...

I'm very pleased to say that my story, 'Kiss', which was longlisted in the Short Fiction Journal Prize in the Spring, has be...

Looks like I am going to manage to achieve my aim and finish reading the shortlisted books before the announcement of the winner on ...

Well, here's another quite amazing debut novel - a dazzling almost-500-pager set in the eighteenth century, the story of a widowed m...

Next Thursday, a week today, the winner of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser and Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award will be announced. I...

I had a very good time yesterday at an event for bloggers, meeting the four authors shortlisted for the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser and Du...

Warning: some plot spoilers. I suggested this French novella which all of us (apart from John) had not read but were glad to do so, unde...

One reason I haven't blogged since I supposedly started again is that I came down with a horrendous fluey-type cold. (There have been ...

Doug suggested this book - all 400-and-something packed and small-print pages of it - since we were having a long summer break, and becaus...

So, picking up on the thoughts of A L Kennedy referred to in my last post , and the question of 'writing what you know' and research...

* I recently came across writing advice from A L Kennedy (I'm sorry, I can't find it on the web just now to provide a link) in which...

Well - if anyone is out there reading this - I can't tell you how strange it is to be writing this blog again today. Apart from the mont...