📖 Author feature ~ Hay Festival 24th May 2025 ~ Author Leah Hazard

 

Bestselling author and midwife Leah Hazard who will be talking about her experience of being an NHS midwife in a field in Wales at the Hay Festival on Saturday 24th May at 1pm.

Ticket info here: https://www.hayfestival.com/p-23941-leah-hazard-in-conversation.aspx

Leah joins some of the biggest names in UK culture including Steven Fry, Simon Schama, Emma Barnett and Paloma Faith at this year's Hay Festival where Leah will dive into the intimate, political, and emotional realities of the female body, discuss the highs and lows of working as an NHS midwife, and share how a mental breakdown inspired her bold and beautifully narrated audiobook The Anatomy of Us (Audible Original 8th May) the follow up to her Sunday Times Bestselling books Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story and Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began.

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Audible Original
8 May 2025

With audiobooks proven to help calm the mind and Hay Festival's stunning setting amongst the rolling hills of Wales, this is the perfect event to wind down to and learn something new this bank holiday. 

Please see further info on Leah's Event at Hay Festival on Saturday 24th May at 1pm, here: https://www.hayfestival.com/p-23941-leah-hazard-in-conversation.aspx

😻 It's our Sixth Blogoversary 😻

Six years ago I took a leap of faith and decided that, with Jaffa's help, I would start to record, on my own website, my thoughts about the books I was reading. I was already an active reviewer on Goodreads and Amazon and also reviewed books for Newbooks Magazine, Love Reading and Real Readers, so reviewing wasn't new to me, however, blogging was a completely different way of sharing my thoughts, both on my blog and also on social media. Social media was something of an enigma and when I started to blog, I didn't use either Facebook or Twitter, so getting to be familiar with both was a huge learning curve, and something I needed to get the hang of quickly if I wanted Jaffareadstoo to survive in a huge pool of blogs and bloggers.

A few of my online friends had already started to blog, some using Wordpress and others using Blogger to host their sites. And whilst I looked at both options, I decided that I rather liked the look of Blogger and its easy way of adding posts and pictures - so I decided to give it a try. My 'blogging' friends were a big help in the early days of Jaffareadstoo and they continue to be a huge support and an endless source of both help and inspiration. I am indebted to the excellent bloggers who continue to support my endeavors and who are always around to share nuggets of wisdom, and of course, their love of books and reading. 

Once I had the basic design, the blog needed a name, and some time previously my daughter had taken a photograph of, the then, kittenish, Jaffa, perched on my knee reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and she made the comment .." Jaffa reads too, and of course, there it was, my magical name, and thus, Jaffareadstoo was born.

Six years, and nearly 2000 blog posts later, Jaffareadstoo continues to survive and thrive in a world where book bloggers sometimes get a hard time. The notion that we get paid for reviewing books rears its ugly head time after time. To put the record straight - I DON'T get paid to review any of the books I share on my blog. I buy just as many books as I get for free and I spend hours and hours online making sure that Jaffareadstoo is both informative and fun.

As long as my love of books survives then so will Jaffareadstoo. Thanks for being with us over the last six years - we couldn't do this without the people who read and support us every day. Nor could we survive without all the wonderful authors and publishers who grace our pages and who make this blogging experience so much FUN 😊

As a  I have six lovely books to giveaway to new homes

Entry is really simple - just leave a nice comment on here, or on our Jaffareadstoo Facebook page.

Tell us which book you fancy reading and Jaffa will add ALL the names into his sorting hat on the 15th May - 😻

If by chance, you have read all these lovely books then opt for a mystery prize which Jaffa has put together in secret...

  

    

Just a few points:

Please be kind and follow our blog if you do not already do so or follow us on Twitter @jaffareadstoo or like us on Facebook

Leave a comment either on here or on our Facebook page and don't forget to tell us which book... or  mystery prize !

And leave us some contact details - either an email or Twitter username

We will post within UK and Europe 

👇You've just a week to add your lovely comments 👇

Good Luck.

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Event ~ Racy Reads and Book Giveaway..

Racy Reads at Waterstones Piccadilly

8 September 2016

Racy Reads with Rebecca Chance, Victoria Fox and Nigel May

 in conversation with Claire Frost

One of the UK's most glamorous bonkbuster authors, Victoria Fox will be joining fellow bonkbuster writers Rebecca Chance and Nigel May in a celebration of Racy Reads at Waterstones Piccadilly on Thursday 8th September.

The FREE Racy Reads event includes a free glass of wine and will take place from 7pm at Waterstones Piccadilly and will be followed by a book signing.

More information can be found by clicking  here  and  here

  

Author Rebecca Chance is the author of nine glamorous thrillers, including Divas and Bad Girls, blockbusters which combine intrigue and romance with her signature outrageous and sizzling sex scenes. Her latest novel,Killer Diamonds, is about an A-list film star whose decision to auction her fabulous jewelry collection sparks a struggle between her and wild-living playboy grandson which turns dangerous and deadly. Follow her on Twitter @MsRebeccaChance

Author Victoria Fox sets her glamorous romances in the fast-paced and glitzy world of Hollywood, where everyone has a secret to hide and drama is always lurking around the corner. Her latest novel, The Santiago Sisters, is a heart aching story of family and desperation. Follow her on Twitter @VFoxWrites

Showbiz journalist and author of Spicy Crime and Glam Fiction novels, Nigel May is a hugely successful writer of five jet setting books filled with sun, sex, and scandal. Lovers and Liars, his latest novel, combines his trademark sense of decadence and flair with a dark murder and twisting plot. Follow him on Twitter @Nigel_May

Claire Frost is Assistant Editor at The Sun on Sunday's Fabulous magazine. As well as editing pages and generally being a bit bossy, she is also the magazine's books editor and so gets to read and review hundreds of brilliant books every year and fangirl at amazing authors. Follow her on Twitter @FabFrosty.

And if you can't attend the event which should be a great evening of book chat,

you can win a fabulous copy of The Santiago Sisters in this wonderful  UK giveaway 

Mira
2016

The Santiago Sisters is a stunning summer romance which asks the question: just how far would you go to get the life you've always wanted?

When Argentinian twin sisters Calida and Terisita Santiago are separated aged fifteen they think they will never see each other again. Wrenched from her poor but happy life on their family farm Terisita is adopted by world-famous British actress Simone Geddes, who plans to make her into a superstar actress and showers with all that money can buy. Terisita, who has spent her childhood reading Mills & Boon novels, is in her element and on the road to becoming one of the world's most loved movie stars.

Utterly betrayed by her sister, Calida vows that no matter how famous or successful her twin sister becomes, she will fight her way to the top and take on Terisita. Calida starts out with nothing except a camera given to her by her father and letting nothing stand in her way, not even falling in love, she fights her way to the top of the heavily competitive world of fashion photography.

But no-one can predict the explosive events which finally bring the Santiago sisters into the spotlight together.

About the Author..

Victoria Fox

Picked by Look magazine as one of their Shooting Stars when she published her first novel Hollywood Sinners and nominated by bestselling author Jane Costello, as one of the UKs most exciting new writing talents, the last five years have seen Victoria Fox's stratospheric rise as one of the UK's favourite authors of women's fiction. The Santiago Sisters is Victoria's sixth novel following Hollywood Sinners, Temptation Island, Wicked Ambition, Glittering Fortunes and Power Games.

Victoria grew up in Northamptonshire and went to boarding school in Bristol at 13, where she learned what you can get up to when your parents aren't around and avoided games lessons at all costs. Parts of The Santiago Sisters are based on her experience of attending Badminton School in Bristol. After a short career in commercial publishing in London Victoria now lives in Bristol with her husband who she is madly in love with.

Follow her on Twitter @VFoxWrites

To find her on her website click here 

My thanks to Isobel at Midas PR for my review copy of The Santiago Sisters and the generous giveaway opportunity to one lucky winner.

~Good Luck ~

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