Eloise Aston's Blog

Susanna was born in 1970. She travelled widely as a child, living in Germany, the US and the UK, spending her school years in wilder parts of the English Lake District. She studied history at Cambridge before joining the British Foreign Service in her mid twenties. Since then, her career has taken her to Poland, Iraq and Pakistan; she spent a few months in Jerusalem helping a documentary team, and learnt Arabic at universities in Oman and Pakistan. She is currently living in London and Lincolnshire. Her travels have been the inspiration for her novels, in which she hopes to capture some of the excitement of the unknown and the complexities of life as an Englishwoman abroad. Continue reading →

Hester Metcalfe is a child of British India, born and raised in the hubbub and dust of Peshawar at the foot of the Khyber Pass. When her husband dies in the Great War, she returns to her old life on the North-West Frontier, to old friends and old haunts in both the Walled City and the British cantonment.

But Peshawar is no longer the haven it once was. Continue reading →

I was using an app on my iPad the other day. An entirely non-literary, practical sort of app, but I mistyped the word ‘colder’ and it decided to autocorrect to ‘Coleridge’. After I’d stopped laughing (and wondering what ‘Coleridge weather’ … Continue reading →

Death on a Longship author Marsali Taylor has fun in the elegant heart of Scotland’s capital. I’d organised the two events simply by phoning to ask if I could come and do a reading while I was down in Edinburgh.  … Continue reading →

PRESS RELEASE 25 March 2013 Blackwells, South Bridge, Edinburgh is hosting a reading and signing by Shetland authors, Marsali Taylor and Robert Alan Jamieson, on 11th April from 6.30-8.00 p.m.   Death on a Longship Marsali’s book Death on a … Continue reading →

Last weekend, Death on a Longship author Marsali Taylor did a reading at the RYA Scotland Big Weekend in Largs – and here is the write-up. Take her to sea, Marsali! * * * I’ve only ever done readings within … Continue reading →

I’m probably breaking my cover writing this, but I have new information for you. Eat this blog post once you’ve read it… OK, so you don’t have to eat it. But I’ve been thinking about spies, recently. Not sure why, … Continue reading →

They say, ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover‘. Well, yes and no. Yes, there are many, many books out there with AWFUL covers. Some of them may be pretty awful books, but many aren’t. And the converse – I’ve … Continue reading →

Enjoy mysteries? Have a sense of humour? Stephanie McCarthy‘s Murder Actually is for mystery fans who love their mysteries, but also enjoy a gentle satirical poke at the genre. Murder Actually is already out in the Kindle Store, but the … Continue reading →

A snarky but light-hearted mystery featuring a small Hudson Valley town and a very reluctant detective, coming soon from Attica. Continue reading →