Donna Freed meets Marisa Haetsman, one half of the husband-wife writing partnership, Ambrose Parry, authors of a series of medical murder mysteries set in Victorian Edinburgh. Marisa sets the scene for the latest, Voices of the Dead, which takes place in 1853 when Edinburgh while still sceptical of medical men in the wake of the Burke and Hare murders is experiencing a resurgence in interest in mesmerism and chloroform has just been as an early anaesthetic for use in childbirth. 

Former Consultant Anaesthetist, Marisa made a mid-life decision to study the history of medicine. She discovered tales of medical hijinks so wild that her husband, best-selling crime writer Chris Brookmyre, suggested that they join forces and exploit the rich possibilities of invention and murder in the Victorian Age. 

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Before they were interrupted by a gorgeous, if unruly dog, Donna Freed and Christina Ford were marvelling at some of the twists and turns in Christina's personal life as related in memoir, In Search of Mr Darcy.

In this segment, Christina alludes to the genuinely shocking and ingenious end to the relationship that brought her to London from her native Toronto and explains why she decided to stay in London and start her blog A-Broad in London  

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Toronto-native Christina Ford is a former TV and film executive who lives in London and chronicles her adventures in A-Broad in London. In Search of Mr Darcy, Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever After is both her first book and a middle-aged lady manifesto!  Her memoir charts her life and career through the lens of the men she has chosen to share it with.

Typical of her warmth and generosity, Christina shared her time and story in Donna Freed's West London kitchen... until Ruby, the unruly, wire-haired dachshund showed up. Look out for Part 2! 

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The Ugly Truth, L. C. North's debut thriller, told exclusively told through interviews, transcripts and diary entries, explores the dark side of celebrity culture and trying to determine the truth through the distorting lens of reportage and social media. 

L. C. North lives in Suffolk, co-hosts the crime thriller podcast In Suspense and is working on her second novel. 

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Susi Hartmann is a modern etiquette consultant and life coach as well as an entrepreneur hosting bespoke wellness retreats through the company she co-founded, Beaumont Awareness. She shares her very personal journey of treating the symptoms of menopause with psilocyben microdosing. She preferred an all natural solution and after thorough research and conversations with experts, she discovered the benefits of using mild forms of 'magic mushrooms' to reduce the anxiety and self-doubt that came with the onset of menopause. She is speaking about her experience at the Bingham Riverhouse on Monday, 27th March at 6:30 BOOK and more info HERE

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Coming home was just the beginning... Kate Hamer follows up her taut psychological blockbuster The Girl in the Red Coat with an equally engrossing sequel, The Lost Girls. 

Carmel has been returned home five years after she was abducted by the preacher of a cult. But the trauma of her experience continues to haunt her and and her mother Beth. Beth is paralysed by fear for her daughter while Carmel is tortured by the knowledge that she wasn't the only girl to go missing and further dismayed that she must confront the preacher in order to uncover the truth. 

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Introducing the next female 007, Makepeace, Emma Makepeace! Ava Glass' hyper-pacy thriller, The Chase follows novice MI6 operative Emma Makepeace as she attempts to escort a man wanted by the Russians across surveillance-filled London without being detected by CCTV. 

Ava spent over a decade working with British spies at MI5 and MI6, has trained spies and been vetted to become a spy herself, so she knows a thing or two about what goes on behind closed government doors. She reveals the personal experience that became the inspiration for the book.  

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Kitty Murphy introduces the first book in her Dublin Drag Mystery Series: Death in Heels. When Eve, frenemy to all in Dublin's drag club Trash, is found dead, Fi McKinnery is forced to turn 'Hagatha Christie'. No one else, including the police nor her best friend Robyn - who performs as Mae B - believes that Eve was murdered. Even as Robyn distances himself from Fi, she is determined to find out who is threatening the lives of Dublin's drag queens.

Death in Heels is out now from Thomas & Mercer and Death in the Dark, the second in the series, is due out in April 2023.

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Sara Cox is a  writer, editor and coach. After completing her MA in Creative Writing, Sara set up her own editing business. In 2021, tired of literary prizes that offered no feedback, Sara set up her own and The Cheshire Novel Prize for unrepresented, unpublished or self-published writers was born. 

In its first year The Cheshire Novel Prize attracted 998 entrants and each entrant received personalised feedback and the top winners got agents. 

The prize is now also open to un-agented memoir writers and is accepting submissions until 1st April 2023.

www.cheshirenovelprize.com @prize_novel @saranaidinecox #CheshireNovelPrize

You'll Never Walk Alone - Poems for life's up and downs
Rachel Kelly is a former Times journalist who is now a mental health campaigner, public speaker, and writer. 
In her early thirties, Rachel was diagnosed with serious depression and subsequently suffered two major depressive episodes. These two episodes have become the defining events of her life. Since then, she has written about the condition, and how she has recovered, in books that have been read by tens of thousands of peopl

Rachel now speaks publicly about her experience of depression and recovery in an effort to reduce stigma and educate people about the reality of mental illness. She also runs workshops for mental health charities to share what she has learnt about how to stay calm and with the power of poetry.

Published by Hodder

https://www.rachel-kelly.net/

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