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Douglas Bruton is a Scottish author or art centric literary fiction. He's published three novels with Fairlight Books: Blue Postcards (2021) With or Without Angels (2023) and most recently Woman in Blue (2025). Check out our interview with Douglas Bruton on his latest novel below to learn a little more about what inspires him! Woman In

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Please Fear Me is Jennifer Love's debut novel. Set throughout the US, we follow Smidge and Violet in their search for autonomy and meaning as they run away from their past traumas. Read on to learn about the creation of Please Fear Me and Jennifer's methods in writing plus a small excerpt!   When did you first decide you wanted

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Chivalry Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about young love by Matthew Twigg. Matthew Twigg lives with his wife and two children near Oxford, where he works as an editor for an academic publisher. He completed a PhD in 2015

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We are happy to announce that we will be publishing a third ekphrastic work by Douglas Bruton in 2025 entitled Woman in Blue after Johannes Vermeer's painting Woman in Blue Reading a Letter. Fairlight Books obtains an innovative love story by award-listed Scottish author Douglas Bruton inspired by the artist Johannes Vermeer. Fairl

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For English Wine Week 2024, we are spotlighting a few of the great vineyards featured in The Vineyards of Britain by Ed Dallimore, to celebrate some of the best vineyards in England! Located in Buckinghamshire, the Daws Hill Vineyard offers tours, events, and cellar door sales specialising in sparkling whites and rosés. The vineyard w

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For English Wine Week 2024, we are spotlighting a few of the great vineyards featured in The Vineyards of Britain by Ed Dallimore! Today, we're showcasing the All Angels Vineyard. All Angels Vineyard is located in West Berkshire and offers cellar door sales, tours and tastings, invitation lunches and dinners. They have been growing

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Pete Sherlock is a Birmingham based investigative journalist at the BBC. His debut novel, The Mask of Merryvale Manor published 20th June 2024 and follows the wonderfully flawed Drummond family. Read our interview with Pete about authorship and his novel The Mask of Merryvale Manor below!     What’s a piece of advice you

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Katherine Mezzacappa is an Irish author currently living in Carrara, northern Tuscany. Her novel The Maiden of Florence is a reimagining of the life of a true woman and is publishing with Fairlight Books.   How did you start writing and what does it mean to you? Writing was something I had always meant to do but other thing

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