Becci's blog

Florence in spring – particularly after an interminable cold wet English winter – seems a revelation and a blessing.  In the Fens the trees are still bare: in Tuscany they’re in full fresh green leaf, and there’s even the promise of lime blossom in the air.  It’s been a cool wet spring in Tuscany too, and the Arno is high and fast-flowing but I arrived with the first properly warm day: the tourists are in shorts, although the locals are still wearing their quilted coats.  They’ll go on wearing them until May, whatever the temperatures, for

Spies and Fakers - by Olen Steinhauer. New Novel An American Spy is out now.

The brand new novel Force of Nature by C.J. Box has it's worldwide publication next week - and will debut on the New York Times bestseller lists at a record high #3! Here we have a guest blog post from the man himself:

Gordon Ferris will be touring throughout Scotland to celebrate the publication of his new novel Bitter Water in April. As well as being crowned Waterstones Author of the Month he will appearing at 14 Waterstones events across the region including;

Edinburgh, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, St Andrews, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness, Elgin, Falkirk, Dumfries, Ayr and Glasgow!

See all the details on our events page here

Lovely author Frauke Scheunemann was in town this week over from Germany to launch the publication of Puppy Love. We were delighted to welcome her here, where we were able to raise a glass, eat too much cake and get into a huge debate about whether or not Mr Beck the cat steals the show in this book.

Dog lovers out there simply have to meet Hercules - the star of our new novel Puppy Love by Frauke Scheunemann which we published on the 1st February.

Today is 1st February and publication day of Michael Ridpath's 66 NORTH. To celebrate, we're giving away 5 copies of of the book on twitter - for a chance to win make sure you're following @CorvusBooks and send us a tweet!

Last night we corvids were celebrating Chris Beckett's Dark Eden with a launch party at Heffers bookshop in his home town of Cambridge. A wonderful night was had by all and many copies of the book signed by Chris.

We're all a bit of a flutter here in the crow's nest as our new editorial teamates have arrived!

As of this week, Sara O'Keeffe is our new Editorial Director - and she's already made her first acquisition! (More on that soon...) She's joined by Maddie West as Editor, and they're abuzz with ideas of how to take our wonderful books to the next level. I for one can't wait!