Book Babe

This morning I’m off to Qatar Radio, where I’m being interviewed along with Leila Aboulela, the brilliant Sudanese writer whose latest book ‘Lyrics Alley’ is up for Scottish Book of the Year. It should be interesting. I worked with Leila last year in a workshop, and it’s always great catching up with writers, especially here. Next week, there’s an author event at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, organised by Bloomsbury Qatar for ‘The Beauty Chorus’. This is one of the things that’s so great about this place – an American University hosting a British author at an event organised by a London publishing house in Qatar – I’m really curious to see how people react here to young girls flying Spitfires …


Meanwhile, we are heading to Canada on the blog tour, to Book Babe Tara Chevrestt. Tara knows *all* about planes, far more than me - as well as being an avid reader, writer and book reviewer, Tara is an aircraft mechanic! Enjoy her four star review x