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Dana chose the early 1990’s to set her novel of a young woman athlete coming of age in New York City. These were the first women who were the full beneficiaries of the first wave of feminism. But, as we know, it wasn’t a perfect world. Seventeen year old Lucy, secretly in love with her…

Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks STEAM PUNK NOVEL with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous Author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley continues in the high fantasy, steampunk style with her second novel The Bedlam Stacks. She sees the Victorian age as a perfect place for magic, and in Bedlam, she emerses us in Peru,…

Pretty Is by Maggie Mitchell A dark & disturbing THRILLER with Jo REES on RADIO GORGEOUS Louis and Carly-May are just twelve years old when they are abducted from their homes and driven across the country to a remote hunting lodge and kept by their kidnapper for two months. Decades later, the two women have…

    STOP The World Sherry Mayes – A Beauty Queen is left crippled AUTHOR of the WEEK with Josephine Pembroke on Radio Gorgeous   Journalist and self-help author Sherry Mayes has turned her hand to young adult fiction. She and Josephine explore the world of an instagram beauty queen when the dream comes to…

    Ilana Fox THE GLITTERING ART of FALLING APART 1980’s SOHO with Josephine Pembroke   Ilana meets Josephine at The Society Club bookshop in Soho, they talk about writing, the 80’s and Ilana’s illuminating story about family, secrets and the dark side of Soho.   Follow Ilana:   https://twitter.com/ilana     @Ilana  Buy the book & Find…

Best-selling, prolific author Dorothy Koomson likes delving deep into emotional territory; she explores both adoption and assisted suicide in her latest (tenth!) book: That Girl From Nowhere. When she started researching the book, she realised that while we often hear the stories of those that gave up a child or adopted a child, we don’t…

DAISY WAUGH – HONEYVILLE  with Josephine Pembroke Daisy Waugh returns to America for her latest novel, Honeyville. She tells Josephine that she really wanted to call it “Snatchville” the miners nick name for Trinidad,Colorado. It was the only town in the West where prostitution was legal and it is the background for her darkly atmospheric…

KATIE FFORDE – A Vintage Wedding an interview with Donna Freed Irrepressibly lovely Katie Fforde returned to Radio Gorgeous on the occasion of A Vintage Wedding. Between sips of champagne she tells us that her daughter and daughter-in-law were wonderful bridal inspirations. @KatieFforde www.katiefforde.com/ SIGN UP for more Gorgeous author interviews… www.radiogorgeous.com

Wannabee a Writer? JANE WENHAM JONES Author tells us how We love books and each week we bring you an Author of the Week. We have now racked up an impressive, if we say so ourselves, 100 Authors of the Week. In celebration, we cram this week’s show with five more of them.   Our…