Portobello Book Blog

My thanks to Virginia at Orion Publishing for sending Something To Live For is available to buy now in all formats. Please buy your copy from an independent bookshop if you can. It should be available to buy or order from your usual book retailer. Alternatively, you will find buying options for various retailer on … More Paperback Publication Day for Something to Live For by Richard Roper #review @orionbooks @RichardRoper #FindYourSomething

I love a book set in Edinburgh, where I know all the streets and landmarks so well. It always draws me into a book. So when this book started with a dramatic police chase, culminating in a crash at a funeral in the very cemetery where my grandparents are buried, that was it, I was … More The Big Chill by Doug Johnstone #bookreview #TheSkelfs @doug_johnstone @orendabooks @RandomTTours

About the author Taylor Jenkins Reid is an author and essayist from Acton, Massachusetts. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Alex, and her dog, Rabbit. You can follow her on Twitter @TJenkinsReid.

I was contacted recently by Cara Bentley from newly established Edinburgh independent publisher, Epoch Press. This publisher is definitely one which should be on your radar if you are a creative non-fiction writer as they are currently open for submissions for the debut issue of their Literary Journal. Over to Cara now to tell us … More Epoch Press Literary Journal launches Kickstarter for debut issue @EpochPress