Yesterday evening #IndyBookTourCymru2019 took me to the lovely Book-ish bookshop in Crickhowell to chat to readers at their Throw Away (Your Television) Society Book Club about None So Blind and the Teifi Valley Coroner series. And what an absolutely delightful evening it was! As you can see from the photo below we were in the […]

Yesterday #IndyBookTourCymru2019 was a bit closer to home than previous outings. Just down the road from me, in fact, in Chepstow where the river Wye runs out of a dramatic limestone gorge, overlooked by the Norman castle, into the Severn. It’s a fascinating little town which lots of people miss as the main road skirts […]

Today, I’m taking a brief pause from #IndyBookTourCymru2019 to share a Crime Cymru triumph and some publishing news (read on to the end for this…) As regular readers of this blog will know the Welsh crime writers’ collective, Crime Cymru, of which I am currently chair, has been appearing in festivals here and there for […]

OK, I’m not sure whether I should be on day 5 (as in this is the fifth day I’ve visited a booshop) or day 8 as in, this is the 8th of May and the tour is going on for the whole of May. So I’m going for the latter. My day 8 visit was […]

Yesterday, I was in Llanidloes at the Aladdin’s cave of bibliographic delights that is Great Oak Books. Run by the redoubtable Clive Upton (that’s him in the picture) the bookshop sells both new and second hand books and, in the pre-owned ‘barn’ section, there’s a proper treasure trove which includes subject areas as diverse as […]

Before I visited Caernarfon I knew two facts about the town: 1 – it is dominated by a thirteenth century castle built to subdue the forces of Llywelyn ap Grufydd. 2 – it has the highest proportion of Welsh speakers of any town in Wales. After today’s visit, I can confirm that the first is […]

Today I was welcomed at the lovely Awen Meirion, a bookshop that sells both Welsh language books and English novels, in Bala. I’d never been to Bala before (shame on me…) but I found it to be a delightful town – particularly so as Welsh was to be heard everwhere – which, interestingly, wasn’t the […]

#IndyBookTourCymru2019 got off to a hugely enjoyable start today at the Pen’rallt Gallery and Bookshop in Machynlleth. I had a wonderful time discussing None So Blind and In Two Minds with the readers – and writers – who gathered for coffee and cake in an event hosted by the lovely Diane Bailey who runs the […]

Great excitement at #IndyBookTourCymru2019 central (ie my house) today with the electronic arrival of posters created specially for the tour by the wonderful Emily Glenister, publicity guru for The Dome Press J Bless her, Emily’s created so many permutations, in both English and Welsh, that bookshops are bound to find one they like and can […]

To celebrate the publication of the second novel in the Teifi Valley Coroner series – In Two Minds – in May and to contribute a bit of a Welsh flavour to National Crime Reading Month (you did know that May is National Crime Reading Month, right?)  I  am proposing a tour of  every independent bookshop […]