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Debbie Young's Writing Life

Hilarious, heartwarming mysteries & romantic comedy set in the Cotswolds

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My latest book: the all-new third adventure about English teacher Gemma Lamb and her eccentric colleagues at St Bride's, the Cotswold boarding school for girls.

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April 2023 (date tbc) HULF Talk: The Language of Literature

13 August 2023 Speaker at the Romantic Novelists’ Association Conference

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Bertie is just trying to decide which book to take down from the shelf above my cosy reading corner for day 6 of the Boldwood Books Advent Calendar. The shelf houses my collection of books about books. Doesn't every home need one of those? What a lovely idea! Thank you to my publisher Boldwood Books for my beautiful Christmas present from Bethlehem Baubles at the Bethlehem Fair Trade Artisans Craft Village, who are working to spread the Fair Trade message in Palestine. This lovely orange bauble was specially commissioned by Boldwood in their corporate colour, and was "hand blown by Muslims, hand painted by Christians, shipped by Israel". Another Dorothy L Sayers novel for Day 5 of the Boldwood Books Advent calendar, which calls for "a book featuring a wedding". The author described this one somewhat apologetically as "a love story with detective interruptions", but anyone who has followed the romance between Lord Peter Wimsey and crimewriter Harriet Vane in the previous three books in the series will surely forgive her for this often funny and rather sweet reward for Wimsey's patience in courting Harriet. I know I do. Blue sky for the first time in days - hurrah! Snapped on Milleniim Square, Bristol, this morning after taking my dad to a hospital appointment. We had an interesting walk, taking a different route to and from the car to turn a routine appointment into a sightseeing trip. Day 4's challenge in the #BoldBookClub Advent Calendar: a book set by the seaside. What's not to love about a nativity play that goes wrong? That's the starting point for my gentle, funny and affectionate tribute to that staple of Christmas celebrations in my third Sophie Sayers Village Mystery, now reissued in this beautiful new edition, just in time for Christmas, by Boldwood Books, and available in all formats from all the usual places. For Day 3 of the #BoldBookClub Advent Calendar challenge: Having fun running my book stall at a Christmas Craft Fair at the Fleece, the pub in the next village to mine. Very festive and very sociable. Lots of compliments on my Christmas jumper too! For day 2's challenge of the #BoldBookClub #adventcalendar: a book with snow on the cover.
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