Elizabeth Baines

In addition to my podcast extract of 'The Words He Said', there's now a short piece  by me on the Lonely Crowd Press website on ...

Warning: plot spoil Doug suggested this prize-winning Norwegian book, first published in 2003. Set around the millennium, it's the first...

In a post in March 2019 I wrote about having a story taken by the The Lonely Crowd , the acclaimed Welsh literary magazine edited by John L...

It's a particular thrill when a writer whose work you admire - Ailsa Cox writes accomplished and moving short stories - and a literature...

It's hard to describe how on top of the world I feel when I get a review that so understands what my work is doing, and at the same time...

I so admire the industry and application of book bloggers. Jackie Law has a very busy blog, neverimitate - I don't know how she manages ...

It's the first day of February, and there are snowdrops up in the garden, a bit of hope in these dreadful times!   Astral Travel has had...

I'm delighted that on her popular blog The Wormhole, Charlie Place (pictured) includes Astral Travel in her 'Best of Best' reads...

Second day of a new lockdown predicted to last for several months! I hadn't realised quite how flattened I was feeling by this turn of e...

A lovely way to end the year, with a great review from Deborah Grace: She calls Astral Travel 'powerful', and concludes:  'Baine...

Ann suggested this short book which, newly reissued as a Penguin Classic, was a bestseller on its publication in Germany in 1932 but banned ...

Last February, when Astral Travel was originally due to come out, I wrote a short article for The Big Issue about novels with a theme that A...

Warning: spoiler - maybe! This debut novel, suggested by Mark, won the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award  (for which books are nomina...

That period when your book is just out and you're waiting for your first review is always somewhat nerve-wracking. I always try not to t...

  Well, here's Astral Travel, finally officially published, after all the delays and stops and starts of lockdown. What a history this b...

Astral Travel, my long-promised novel - postponed due to the lockdown in March - is now available from the Salt website - two weeks before p...

John has read several of Bolaño's door-stopper novels but the book of his he suggested for the group is short, a novella, and in fact an...

I recommended this Booker-shortlisted book as I had loved it when I wrote about the books on another shortlist it made: the 2018 Young Writ...

This was our first-ever zoom meeting, conducted in lockdown. Most of us weren't much used to zoom at the time, and when John and I bumpe...

Here they are - the fattest (ie longest) book I've ever published! (Though I'm told by those who saw the manuscript that it's a ...