THE WIPEOUT ROUND BY JO BAVINGTON-JONES – BOOK REVIEW
PUBLISHED BY HUT22 ON THE 7th APRIL 2025 Jo Bavington-Jones lives on the Kent coast with her partner, the photographer Dirk Seyfried, and the neighbours’ cats. And sometimes a very friendly fox called Samantha. Jo came to writing late in life after many years of working to pay the bills and bringing up her son. After learning her craft writing women’s fiction, Jo finally turned to a life of crime during the first Covid lockdown, and The Write Way to Die series was born. Jo says crime fiction is definitely her first love, and is about to start writing book…
View PostBOOK LAUNCHES LAST THURSDAY
I organised a couple of book launches for two lovely Folkestone authors last Thursday. The first one was for Margaret Harland-Suddes, who had written a YA fiction story which had been taken up by a London publishing company called Austin Macauley. The book is called Finding Kronam. I have read it, and you can read my review here. The food was made by Kara from Everlasting Events. The cupcakes were amazing, and the biscuits, as they were made especially for this event, the cakes had pics of the book on them, very clever. Margaret did a reading and then…
View PostBOOK REVIEW OF THE BONFIRE BUDDLEIA BY JO BAVINGTON-JONES
PUBLISHED BY HUT 22 BOOKS ON THE 3RD MARCH 2025 An emotional look at three sisters’ lives as they come to terms with their past as children and the effect their childhood had on each of them. The neighbour from their childhood home dies, opening the vault of secrets for all three sisters. Can they come to terms with all this, but what are they going to do about it? This kept me turning those pages all day; you can almost feel the emotions pouring out from the pages. Very well written plus a truly wonderful story written by our…
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GUEST POST FROM JO Crime pays, so they say. And, to a large extent where books are concerned, this is true. My crime novels far outsell my women’s fiction novels. So, having turned to a life of crime (fiction) in 2021, why am I still writing women’s fiction? That’s a good question! Crime and detective fiction are undoubtedly my first loves. From the moment I opened Richard Scarry’s The Great Pie Robbery at a very young age, I was hooked, and my reading taste has never really changed. At fifty-seven, you’ll still see me picking up the latest Robert Galbraith…
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