Isabel Costello

LATEST ARTICLES ( 428 )

• On Location: #4 Côte d’Azur/The French Riviera

  

  I won’t get into why France is so significant to me (another time), but at a guess, I’ve been there 100-150 times. I’ve visited most parts of the country, but... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2012 BOOKS

• Book Review – Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May

  

  I wanted variety in my Fiction Hot Picks for 2012 and this book is certainly different, even down to the way it made it onto the list. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 BOOKS

• Lucky 7 – Seven Lines from New Works

  

  I returned from my lovely trip to the South of France to find I’d been tagged by Jane Rusbridge in the Lucky 7 – Seven Lines from New Works. Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2012 BOOKS

• A Real Character – Or in This Case, Me

  

  Spring is here and it’s almost time to make a start on my second novel – if nothing else it will take my mind off what’s going to become of the first one,... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2012 BOOKS

• Book Review – Gillespie and I by Jane Harris

  

  Six years after the release of Jane Harris’s debut novel The Observations, I still remember the voice of Irish servant girl Bessy with a clarity I wish I could... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2012 BOOKS

• Book Titles – (Don’t) Call It What You Like

  

  Since writing about the importance of titles in Being Selective – How do you choose which books to read? I’ve given this subject a lot more thought and I’m... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012 BOOKS

• Book Review – The English Monster by Lloyd Shepherd

  

  I’ve never been drawn to historical fiction, probably because I hated history at school and gave it up at the earliest opportunity. Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2012 BOOKS

• On Location: #3 Coney Island, Brooklyn

  

  Time for another post in the On Location series of places which feature in my novel Nothing Happens for a Reason (though obviously I don’t tell you why!). Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2012 BOOKS