Joffe Books’ book of the week is an utterly addictive psychological thriller with a twist you’ll never see coming by acclaimed author E.V. Seymour — MY DAUGHTER’S SECRETS is out now for just £0.99 | $0.99.

Grace thought she knew her daughter. But Tara had been keeping secrets from her. Very dark secrets . . .      If you like  books by Patricia MacDonald, Shalini Boland, Claire Douglas or Liane Moriarty, then try this, you won’t be disappointed in this excellent suspense novel  from a bestselling author that has drawn wide acclaim.
“A book you’ll be telling your friends about.” Lori Rader-Day, Mary Higgins Clark and Anthony Award-winning author
CLICK HERE TO BUY MY DAUGHTER’S SECRETS BY E.V. SEYMOUR FOR JUST £0.99 | $0.99.

Just a few of the great new books on offer this week from Joffe Books. 

OUT NOW — JUST 99P | 99C 

RINA MARTIN MURDER MYSTERY BOX SET  1 – 4

If cozy crime is your bag, (it certainly is mine) meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving. She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real. Discover your next cozy crime obsession with this great-value box set of FOUR irresistible mysteries. Such a good buy.

“A major talent .” #1 bestselling author Val McDermid

GOLDSTEIN by VOLKER KUTSCHER – my utter favourite sort of crime –  atmosoheric, taut. How wonderful, this as well as cozy crime. We are spoilt for choice this week. £2.99

DISCOVER THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HIT TV SHOW BABYLON BERLIN IN AN ABSORBING AND ATMOSPHERIC HISTORICAL CRIME MYSTERY.“Atmospheric.” Peter James   “Gripping.” Mail on Sunday
*Please note jOFFE’S edition is only available in the UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada).

TIME TO MOVE ON BY GRACE THOMPSON 99P/99C

UNPUTDOWNABLE HISTORICAL FAMILY SAGA.

Wales, 1952. Seranne Laurence is furious. Her mum has just announced that she is to marry Paul Curtis, the latest in a slew of unsuitable suitors which will make this womaniser Seranne’s step-father.
Can Seranne’s budding relationship with the alluring, infuriating Luke survive the storm —  or will Jessie’s marriage to the sly Paul be the undoing of them all?

Book of the Month

Detectives Anderson and Costello by Caro Ramsay 1 – 3 Box Set for 99p/99c

For Joffe’s Book of the Month they highlight an incredible-value box set of THREE bestselling crime mysteries from Caro Ramsay.

“Brilliant.” Guardian  “The dialogue crackles.” Observer
“Dark, vivid and daring.” #1 bestselling author Val McDermid

NEWS 

 Joffe Books’ Associate Commissioning Editor Steph Carey has signed SIX gripping Welsh crime mysteries from P.F. Ford.

Peter always dreamed of becoming a writer, but a dream is easily stifled without support from those around you.  He says it was only when his old, unhappy life fell apart and he met his new partner Mary, who believed dreamers should be encouraged, that he finally got the chance to live that dream.

Fast forward a few years and you find a man transformed. Now, blissfully happy, settled in a quiet corner of Wales with wife Mary and their rescue dogs, P.F. Ford is living proof that it’s never too late to achieve your dreams.

P.F. Ford says:

“As soon as I spoke to the guys at Joffe Books I understood why they win so many awards, and I’m super confident that working with them is going to take my writing career to another level. I can’t wait to get started!”

Joffe Books Associate Commissioning Editor Steph Carey says:

“I am absolutely delighted to sign Pete to Joffe Books — his compelling crime mysteries set on the Welsh coast have it all: a fantastic cast of richly drawn characters, a beautiful setting, and twists and turns aplenty.” 

Watch this space to get your hands on the first utterly gripping Welsh murder mystery by P.F. Ford in November

For more releases: Joffe Books

Corey Barnes from CJ Carpet Fitters

COREY BARNES from CJ CARPET FITTERS is the best of the best and started the floor this week. Marion and the team are thrilled and so is Frost Magazine, who visited the CCA a while ago and heard  Marion’s plans for a new floor. It was her dream, and it’s coming true before her eyes. 

It’s all go: the computer room has dried out perfectly and is ready for the next stage,  the painters have been busy in the kitchen, and the lad said he would apply Marion’s choice, Soft Truffle Emulsion. With a name like that, how can it fail to please.

Marion explained, ‘ Our centre prides itself on working with local tradesmen; they care, and want to put our beloved community association on the map as the place to be. We have decided to name our rooms using names associated with the Brady Square area. BRIAN MASON a local lad, has agreed to make the signs for us but we won’t reveal the names just yet.’ 

So,we must all wait. How exciting and with all this going on the CCA is still  business as usual with new sessions starting for CULTURAL CREATIONS  and FLOWER ARRANGING. 

‘I have asked my Bob to toddle off to B & Q for more paint for the kitchen’ Marion told Frost Magazine.  (To be honest Frost Magazine feels  it’s  truly l“Bob a Job week” every day.’ as Marion suggested) Marion added, ‘By the way, Margaret, did I mention that Bob now has two pairs of red shoes?’  Lord,the woman knows how to rub it in. Because she knows she did, and that I am so jealous as I hunt unsuccessfuly for just ONE pair for little old me. . . 

Now for the really sad news, ( my mum Annie Newsome would be really upset) as “Bells” the Butchers will cease trading in October. They have been trading since 1883 and have always been a ficture in the life of Brady Square, Bells Mince pies are second to none. 

Marion says, ‘Our Centre has been going since 1939, it is so important that our building undergoes this refurbishment for the longevity and heritage of our much-loved community and the people of Brady Square. We even found solid brass door handles and finger plates tucked away stamped with GR and the crown. How thrilling is this. A little bit of Coke cleans the brass to a sparkling condition. (Tip of the week)

Kitchen is painted and units are up. The Gas meter on the wall has been removed, and now the wall can be plastered and finished.

Equan had sent in the plasterer comedians, much to Marion’s joy, whose sides were splitting with laughter. Above is  is ALAN and Marion thinks he should be on the stage, he brought such sunshine into the team’s lives. 

The kitchen units are being recycled and erected in the computer room along with new worktops. What a transformation, all done with loving care by the amazing LEE. In the midst of all the bustle, the Engineer popped in to check the Fire Alarms, a necessity and a 100% pass.

Never a dull moment, for on Thursday  RICHARD the surveyor called with TOBIN  the  Archaeologist to record the air raid shelter prior to demolition, then hopefully work can start the external refurbishment.

‘We took great pleasure in spending a £1000 grant we attained for kitchen equipment which was delivered on Monday 26,’ said Marion adding: ‘We will want for nowt we haven’t got.’  She’s even got an ‘ology’ after doing a training course on Food Allergies. Be alert Bob, there’ll be no living with her.. She’ll be getting red shoes next. 

Sadly, the CCA has said goodbye to the lovely JODIE from EQUAN who has gone on to pastures new, and they will miss her.

On Monday there will be news on the fabulous fundraising work the residents are  doing to help the communtiy with Columbia Community Association firmly at the heart as always.

Information: Columbia Community Association  Columbia uk Community Forum

Memories of Brady Square

Yes, it’s arrived, so Marion tells Margaret Graham, Editor of  Frost Magazine. Hurrah.

It appears to have been a busy week: the plaster in the kitchen was left to dry out slowly as it’s scheduled to be painted this week ready for the units to be fitted. Pauline has been  busying herself cleaning the glass in the doors ready for the fabulous rainbow window film. Bob has been replacing some of the handles on the doors and as Marion says, ‘They look the business.’

While on the subject of Bob, Margaret Graham is very very put out, because Bob has a NEW pair of red shoes, when she still has not found her first pair. Moving on…

The new Projector has been delivered and the CCA have had a donation of a 32inch Telelvision for our computer room.

Marion says, ‘This room wants for nowt it hasn’t got. so Columbia Community Association will be the place to be. The grand news is that  the lovely Laura Baines from Equan is organising Free Digital Training. In addition she is delivering training at our centre for over 16’s who are currently unemployed and looking to gain meaningful employment or to re-enter the workplace.’ This really is an outstanding initiative.

Excellent news hot off the press: the CCA is now part of the Washington Heritage Partnership, in which groups work together to commemorate and fortify the heritage of Washington and wonderful Brady Square. ‘We are now displayed on their new banner,’ Marion says.

Fat Quarters arrived and showed the team the hats they are knitting for the Seamens’ Mission which is destined to bring a smile to Sister Mary.

The CCA also had a visit from Jim Benson, Principal Designer (Health & Safety) to Marion and the rest of us. He was  Marion says,  very nice and most complimentary; He even let her take his photograph for Frost Magazine. ‘Jim advised us it would be good practice to display a poster with the location of the nearest Defibrillator. Sound advice Sir, we took a photo of our neighbours and designed a poster.’

Lee at Faltec informed  Marion that their television was ready to collect, wall bracket n all…. The team are thrilled, ‘What a star, a man of his word. That’s two in one week, and both Smart TVs.’

A vast number of glasses were handed over to Ray for the Cambodian appeal and arrangements have to made with Kam from the Polish Centre for him to collect a cheque for money raised for the Ukrainian appeal from the food hamper raffle.‘The hats for the Seafarers keep on coming but there are never enough, so don’t stop knitting.’  Marion has even spurred Margaret, editor of Frost Magazine to get out her needles. She has knitted up five, of which Dick, (him indoors) has pinched one. BAD Dick.

The paint arrived, and low and behold it was the gaffers of Equan getting the brushes out. ‘How lucky are we having such amazing people wanting to bring our centre back to life. Brady Square rubs off on everyone, whoever darkens our doors is hooked with its magnetism.’ says Marion. Well, quite.

Left to right: Steven, Tom and Stu (the lovable Likely lads at work) to be rewarded at tea break with a slice of Linda’s Orange cake. Keiran arrived to take over the afternoon shift, and the lovely Beth. (Keiran is AKA Jurgen Klopp).

The colour of the flooring was chosen, grey to match the grey radiators and blinds. The TV was also mounted on the wall, the bookcase was mounted in the corner. Margaret is bringing more of her books under her writing names of Margaret Graham, Milly Adams and Annie Clarke so they can go there, along with others. The settee and reception table and chairs, donated by Faltec,  complete the picture. The problem is going to be… stopping Marion from moving in.

Friday was put aside for emptying the room ready for Corey to start the flooring this week. All hands-on deck after Callum has given the radiator a second coat of paint as  Mike,  Michael, and Dan helped clear the room.

The excitement is mounting at Columbia Community Centre, and thanks abound to all those who have supported and helped so far.

‘You are all appreciated more than you will ever know,’ say the committee. 

.Information: Columbia Community Association  Columbia uk Community Forum

Memories of Brady Square

 

I should say so, said the Frost Magazine Team

Frost Magazine team was intrigued by Not just a shop which does seem to be the place to discover unique home, fashion, giftware and artwork by University of Arts London students and alumni. Their products will not break the bank either, but are original enough to be  treasured by the recipient. Or why not keep a couple yourself. That’s not a question, but a hint. We think they are all fabulous and found something we would like to buy from each company, but had to sort of do an eyes shut lucky dip or we’d be here all day.

This resulted in these beauties: Eco felt slippers and  the utlra reasonable fabric pocket mirrors.Then we all felt the notebooks were a must. Do have a look at everything and buy your gifts in good time. You truly will not regret it.

Handmade  Eco Felt slippers £45                                 Fabric Pocket mirror £4

AURA QUE is an abbreviation of designer Laura Queening’ name, who founded the company in 2008 after graduating from London College of Fashion.

AURA QUE products are developed in collaboration between Laura and the small producers she works with in Asia. She sources and works with various charity handicraft units and fairtrade producer groups in Nepal, Vietnam and India to bring local sustainable materials, craft skills and designs to western markets, both for AURA QUE and bespoke projects.

The AURA QUE studio is based in Peckham, but the brand’s handbags, accessories, homeware and gifts are stocked by independent boutiques throughout Europe.

Get going on those big plans with this cool ‘Grand Ideas’ notebook.from Tom Boulton at Type Tom: or why not the Go For it cheerleader of a nobook.

Tom Boulton is a letterpress printer and typographic designer who lives and works by the sea in West Sussex. Obsessed with hand printing, hand making and restoring old machinery, he aims to revive interest in traditional printing skills that are sometimes considered obsolete.

Under his brand Type Tom, he hand prints and makes products including: greetings cards, notebooks, stationery packs and prints. Everything is designed and printed on letterpress machines from the 1900’s using his collection of antique wood poster and lead type.

Hand printed on a 1900’s Cropper Charlton Peerless letterpress by printer and typographic designer Tom Boulton, these notbooks  contain 36 pages (white plus 4 bright yellow).

Each notebook is hand bound using a traditional Japanese stab binding technique with a suitably contrasting thread.  Made from FSC certified card and 120gsm paper. A5 note pads @ £7.50 each but Type Tom offers more fabulous products.

Images courtesy of notjustashop.arts.ac.uk which is where you can have a really good look around and learn more about the craftsmen, and their Christmas, or anytime gifts.

These can be purchased on line,( notjustashop.arts.ac.uk) and at their physical shop in Holburn.

Yesterday we discovered how Calvin Niles, the Mindful Storyteller, navigated a series of, in his words ‘mini traumas’. Today we continue to explore how his story evolved. For Calvin with maelstrom of changes going on in his life, changing jobs seemed reckless, so he settled at his corporate job. I say settled because he admits to a deep sense of dissatisfaction but not enough to do something about it.

So Source, The Universe, God gave him something which would catch his attention.

Early one winter’s morning Calvin’s car span out of control on ice & flying across 3 lanes of traffic into the central reservation, crushing 3 sides of the car. He walked away miraculously with just a scratch on his elbow. Waiting for the pick-up truck to tow him & the car home he meditated. He received the clear message to call time on his corporate career. He’d been feeling discomfort at not living his passion or purpose but had dulled this down until The Universe made it crystal clear to him. He handed his notice in the next week & hasn’t looked back. Synchronicities abounded as they tend to, because once The Universe has out attention she likes to remind us she’s listening – it’s a gentle nod to come back to conscious awareness because you’d miss them if you weren’t paying attention.

For many there were cosmic & mystical happenings usually experienced during deep meditative practices that defy language or words so other worldly but sublimely peaceful & connected they are. Everyone’s experience is unique & true to them but once you’ve experienced this when others try to describe theirs you just get it even though words do not suffice.  The insights, healing & growth continue & do so today in ‘ripples’ as Calvin describes them.

And that’s led us to the next part in a spiritual journey: that there’s no end point to a more conscious awareness. No-one is ever finished. And that’s really quite liberating. Everyone’s path is different: some experience all these stages again & again, others may skip some stages. I know one person who I would describe as have a spontaneous awakening. He never meditated or practiced any contemplative study, he wasn’t religious, nothing epic happened in his life just one day he awakened to a deep connection to source. The point is this conscious awakening is possible for everyone & available for us all to experience, it’s our birth-right if you like.

Calvin exudes serenity, compassion & presence that speak volumes to the inner work he has done & reflect his inner peace & equilibrium & you’ll discover this energy is amongst those who have embarked on a more conscious & present way of living & being. At the end of our chat he summed up everything he’d been sharing with me in his poem, which I’d like to share with you:

Water and Fire – A Poem by Calvin Niles

A trickle is how it starts
Sometimes you don’t see it.
Too busy thinking about thoughts.

A spark is all it takes
Not everyone notices.
Too busy worrying about worries.

When the rivers burst their banks and forests turn to cinders
Everyone in the neighbourhood notices.
Wouldn’t you say?

Can you see the small things?

Do you feel the tiny tickle before the pain?
Or the little drizzle before the rain?
Can you spot the wildness within the tame?
Or your irks before you complain?
Or is it all the same?
Let me ask you again.

Do you feel the space between your breaths?
Or note the taste in your mouth of whatever’s left?
Do you feel abundant or bereft?
Are you in the now or seeking the next?
Can you do and not impress?
Or is give and not expect?
Each moment is a new opportunity to choose.

Choose to see not just look.
Choose to listen not just hear.
Choose to love.
Choose to forgive.
Choose to let go.
Choose to live.

Choose wisely.

Listen to Calvin’s podcasts:
3. Stories of Awakening
4. Mindful Conversations

Read Calvin’s Fiction Spiritual Adventure: The Sun Rises in Eastmoor available here
Facebook: @calvinnilesofficial
Instagram: @calvinniles
Website: www.calvinniles.com
Email: contact(at)calvinniles(dot)com

Calvin Niles is a mindful storyteller, guiding businesses & individuals in authentically telling their story. We met a couple of years ago co-presenting in a mindfulness online retreat & a friendship has blossomed. He recently asked me to share my story of spiritual awakening in his podcast – you can find out more in the link below.

So I thought it might be nice to turn the spotlight onto our mindful raconteur & asked Calvin if he would like to share his story of conscious awakening. What a wonderful morning we shared as he spoke publically for the first time about his journey from automatic pilot, unconscious living into a more present consciousness.

I wondered how on earth to do a master storyteller’s own story justice. I reflected on the similarities of our own distinctly unique but also familiar transitions, the catalysts, the moments of clarity & knowing, the shifts that ran as threads through our own stories but also through the story’s of others.

What is a spiritual awakening? I would describe it as a shift in consciousness, or as Marianne Williamson describes it: full recovery from the fractured sense of self. It’s not something you do or something to attain because it is much more about an inner sense of peace, equilibrium, a feeling not a doing.

It’s a different feeling, a different experience for everyone but at some point along the rocky road of life, opportunities will present themselves that open up the door to awareness, acceptance, lessons, learnings, healing & growth.

As children we are really quite present & more consciously aware. This can be conditioned out of us by society or trauma. We can become disconnected from our emotions & feelings because they were intense & frightening, disconnected from our mind body connection, thinking, acting & behaving unconsciously & automatically. We are beginning to understand that 80% have experienced some kind of trauma. That’s a lot of disconnected & unconscious people.

Calvin explained that even though he had grown up surrounded & influenced by the metaphysical texts of his mother’s bookshop he was not consciously aware of it nor was he immersed in this world. And a series of as he describes them, ‘mini traumas’ encouraged him to be less conscious & more disconnected with his own emotions.

Many who experience some kind of spiritual awakening experience a cataclysmic ‘life’ event which is a catalyst.

There’s the thing, The Universe wants us to learn the lessons we came here to & often they are presented gentle whispers & soft nudges so we often miss them. So the next one is a little louder or a more forceful nudge but still we may not heed the calling & so on until something gets so loud & so uncomfortable we have to do something about it: that cataclysmic event, the catalyst for the inner work.

Often these big events centre around a relationship, relationships being a spiritual practice, the playground of the ego & the spirit. For some, like Calvin & myself it was in the acrimonious ending of our marriages. For others a may be a different fractious relationship.

There is a catalyst & finally The Universe has got our attention.

In the wake of this seismic shift often there’s a dark night of the soul experience. For some this is a self-imposed exile, a time to turn inwards, do the inner work & practice, a conscious decision: they go on silent retreat, into rehab. For others is is more imposed upon them. And for many it’s a combination of both.

For Calvin the suffocating & deafening silence of an empty house when the kids spent time with their Mum after being so used to the hustle & bustle of a busy family life & home was excruciating. Something I completely empathize with.

This is when we tend to turn to our practices as sources of comfort, peace, guidance, surrender. And this is often when the magic starts to happen.

Insights, shifts, an inner knowing, a change in beliefs. For Calvin it was a realization he was part of something much bigger. I felt a deep sense of being taken care of. Whatever the words or what it looks & feels like it is a profound connection to Source, God, The Universe, whatever you want to call it.

From thereon you can’t un-know what has been revealed to you. But life tends to bumble on. Sometimes we dip & fall in & out consciousness. Sometimes there’s more work to do. And if we don’t take heed of the whispers & nudges these reminders The Universe or Source will do something else to catch our attention.

Find out tomorrow what was in store for our mindful storyteller.

Listen to Calvin’s podcasts:

1. Stories of Awakening
2. Mindful Conversations

Read Calvin Fiction Spiritual Adventure: The Sun Rises in Eastmoor available here

Facebook: @calvinnilesofficial

Instagram: @calvinniles

Website: www.calvinniles.com

Email: contact(at)calvinniles(dot)com

To listen to Alex & Calvin together please click here: https://youtu.be/q–PivQeINw

I kept thinking as I read that I should know this, know that, know the other. That I should have thought more deeply, understood for myself the depths of a particular point. So thank heavens for Paul Corner’s  illumination of the past for us all, and for highlighting the tricks memory, or the transfiguring of memory plays, leading us into a perilous preferred acceptance of what amounts to a myth.

I suppose these days it’s called ‘my truth’ , which alarmingly is gaining credence as an  explanation of a lie, or something at least which bears little or no relation to the facts. What it does do is fit in with what others are saying, in other words, their preferred memory, in which facts have been ignored.

So, on to the book: an examination of the brutal reality of the Italian dicator’s fascist regime. Well quite.

For some reason Mussolini has more often than not had a better press than Hitler and Stalin. Indeed, there has been a certain indulgence in that yes, he was a Fascist, but a kindly one, or at least a less than awful one. One that certainly was not like ‘the others’.

In Italy, as elsewhere, he is ofte remembered as strong decisive leader, and who did many good things.

Paul Corner argues against this rehabilitation, not shying away from the corruption, inefficiencies, and the violence of a deeply repressive regime, but for me what was most important was that Mussolini in Myth and Memory went some way to discussing the vagaries of memory, the tendancy in so many of us to rework the facts to fit in with what is comfortable for us.

Is this why some citizens still choose dictatorships? Have they created a mythical memory of the past? Gone is the repression, instead the memory of order and peace overlays the reality.  But this preferred view ignores the burgeoning reality of the pressure to conform, to join in group think, to think as others think, or pretend to do so out of fear of ostracisation, cancellation. In the name of this new dogma texts are deemed unacceptable if they refute the group think dictat. Texts are therefore altered, books are burned, the main stream media is biased. From here, the slippery slope to the Totalitarian regime begins. Totalitarianism is not pretty, there might be a strong leadership, strong forces of law and order which rewards  rigid obedience but at what cost?  None of these beginnings into totalitarianism should be remembered through the lens of ‘my truth.’ The facts must be writ, clear and loud.

Mussolin in Myth and Memory is a warning, a revelation, a profound study of the realities of dictatorships which with time, can merge into acceptable and appealing myth.

Buy it: Mussolini in Myth and Memory – The First Totalitarian Dictator by Paul Corner. OUP Hardback £20.00

Paul Corner is Emeritus Professor of Euopean History and former Director of the Centre for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes at the University of Siena

This is a corker of a  ‘ book of the week’ from Joffe who are thrilled with HIDDEN ON THE MOORS by acclaimed author Priscilla Masters. It’s out now for 99p/99c:  a man is seen lingering outside the gates at the local school. Then a five-year-old girl goes missing. The team begin a desperate search for the little girl, but she could be hidden anywhere on these moors.   The clock is ticking . . . Can Detective Joanna Piercy find the girl before it’s too late?

CLICK HERE TO BUY HIDDEN ON THE MOORS BY PRISCILLA MASTERS FOR JUST 99P | 99C.

Silent Death by Volker Kutscher really appeals to me. Priced at £2.99

AT THE DAWN OF TALKING FILMS, A MOVIE STAR IS SILENCED FOREVER . . .

“Ingenious . . . a portrait of an era through the lens of genre fiction.” New York Times“Atmospheric and immersive.” Sunday Herald*Please note our edition of The Silent Death is only available in the UK.

Such excitement:: Beachy Head by Adam Lyndon is coming soon:

BEACHY HEAD, the brand-new Detective Rutherford Barnes mystery by serving police-officer Adam Lyndon is launching next week and is available to pre-order now for just 99p | 99c.

DC Barnes, back on the job after an eighteen-month suspension, is in no position to refuse a case no-one else wants: a one-punch homicide. But soon Barnes’s no-win case becomes something deeper and darker than anyone could have imagined

Joffe Books Publishing Director Kate Lyall Grant says: 

“Adam Lyndon played a blinder with his stunning debut, DEVIL’S CHIMNEY.  But he has surpassed himself with his second novel, BEACHY HEAD. From the tension-fuelled opening scene, I was drawn in right away and held gripped throughout this intriguing, multi-stranded read, with its plentiful twists and turns.  There is one particular twist, about halfway through, which took my breath away, and changed everything I thought I knew about what had gone before.”
CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER BEACHY HEAD BY ADAM LYNDON FOR JUST 99P | 99C.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A COVER REVEAL FOR BEACHY HEAD BY ADAM LYNDON.      Readers LOVED Adam Lyndon’s debut novel, which introduced the character of the young and ambitious — perhaps too ambitious for his own good — DC Rutherford Barnes.  Get your copy today and prepare to be hooked! 

CLICK HERE TO BUY DEVIL’S CHIMNEY BY ADAM LYNDON FOR JUST 99P

NEWS

Joffe Books Publishing Director Kate Lyall Grant has signed two novels from bestselling author McGarvey Black, who is joining Joffe Books with two psychological thrillers.

McGarvey studied voice at Manhattan School of Music and was later a theatre major in college. She pursued an acting career but later moved into a magazine and digital media career. During that time, she sold advertising and managed sales teams for companies like Conde Nast, WebMD and worked for brands including GQ, Travel + Leisure, and Allure.

In between, she took a year off and backpacked alone around the world. Later, after having two children, she left media and became an executive recruiter for internet companies. In 2017, she began writing full time and has since published six novels.

McGarvey Black says: 

“I saw a podcast interview of Jasper Joffe and was really taken by his outlook on publishing. He was incredibly positive and normal and I liked his philosophy. He mentioned that Kate Lyall Grant had moved to Joffe Books and when I looked at her background, I thought I want to work with them!  Joffe Books has had remarkable success publishing high quality fiction that include a slew of bestsellers. I’m hoping mine will be one of them.”

Kate Lyall Grant says:

“I’ve never come across an author with quite such a darkly inventive imagination as McGarvey Black.  She comes up the most ingeniously twisted plots which pull you in from the outset and keep you gripped until the end.  I’m absolutely delighted to have acquired her next two books, TRUST ONLY ME and TWICE ON CHRISTMAS for Joffe Books.”

Kate adds: Watch this space and be among the first to read Black’s thrilling new suspense novels in early 2023! 

For more on Joffe’s latest releases – Joffe Books