When to Stop Writing: Notes on Finishing a Novel

Decisions, decisions.

Richard T. Kelly wrestles with the end…

Independent Bookseller of the Month: The Guisborough Bookshop

Every month we feature a different bookshop – we ask them to tell us what makes them special and what they like most about what they do. This month it’s the turn of The Guisborough Bookshop, in North Yorkshire.

Genre round-up: Crime

New novels from Lynda La Plante and John Rector, plus some Inspector Aurelio Zen classics that will soon be given a new life by the BBC, just some of this month’s titles in the crime round-up.

Win a copy of The Tiger [closed]

Sceptre have kindly given us copies of John Vaillant’s haunting, gripping exploration of predators and prey and an intimate portrait of a remarkable animal increasingly threatened by interaction with humans, for 10 lucky Bookhugger winners…

Read an extract from The Dark Tourist

‘Dark tourism is the act of travel and visitation to sites, attractions and exhibitions which have real or recreated death, suffering or the seemingly macabre as a main theme.’

The September Competition [closed]

Enter the September competition for your chance to win a triple-whammy title fest from Bookhugger publishers.

Visit A Place of Secrets

Author Rachel Hore introduces her bestselling novel A Place of Secrets, a Richard and Judy Book Club choice.

Presenting the Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington: Adventurer. Philosopher. Idiot.

Travel broadens the mind, right? You’d think so… find out in this extract from Karl Pilkington’s hilarious travel diaries.

Nicolai Lilin interviewed

Set in a small and tight-knit community of ‘honest criminals’ in a remote part of Russia, Siberian Education is a tale of an extreme boyhood – exotic, violent and completely unique. Author Nicolai Lilin answers questions put to him by Bookhugger’s readers.

Read an extract from The Lost Kings

Download an extensive six chapter sampler from the first exciting novel by Bruno Hare, published yesterday.

Bruno Hare on The Lost Kings

The Lost Kings is a rollicking tale of adventure and derring-do set on the far frontiers of Empire in the best tradition of Kipling and Rider Haggard. Author Bruno Hare introduces his first action-packed novel.

The Booklist: Travel writing

Just as you’re about to go back to work after your summer holidays, Bookhugger’s publishers suggest some fine travel titles to get that wanderlust going again…

DBC Pierre on Lights Out in Wonderland

Lights Out in Wonderland is the third novel from Booker Prize-winner DBC Pierre. It follows disaffected twenty-something decadent Gabriel Brockwell on a spectacular global odyssey.

An interview with Jean-François Parot

An in-depth interview with the author of the best-selling Nicolas le Floch thrillers, the latest of which, The Saint-Florentin Murders is soon to be published.

Genre roundup: Non-fiction – part one

The first of our non-fiction round-ups this month features Rob Young’s comprehensive study of the roots of British music, Stewart Lee’s career u-turn, one man’s reminiscences about the telly of his youth; oh, and not forgetting the den of inequity that was and is London, the City of Sin…

The Decadents Fight Back

September sees publication of Lights Out in Wonderland, DBC Pierre’s third novel; in some ways the concluding fiction in what he has referred to as an End Times Trilogy. Faber editor Lee Brackstone explores the relationships between the three titles, and author DBC Pierre discusses his latest novel.

Genre roundup: Contemporary fiction – part one

The first part of a bumper crop of fiction from Bookhugger’s publishers, exploring the tunnels beneath New York, Vienna’s autobahn, and the violence of Gasgow, Belfast and Zimbabwe.

Read an extract from The Saint-Florentin Murders by Jean-François Parot

The fifth exciting adventure for Nicolas Le Floch, to be published in October, has it all: serial crimes and a bizarre murder weapon, as well as debauchery, espionage, and the follies of a young court where ancient rivalries and grudges still linger. Read the prologue and first chapter exclusively here on Bookhugger…

September reading groups round-up

Looking for a new title for your bookgroup or reading circle? Look no further – here are three titles that have reading group resources available right here on Bookhugger.