A.J. West

cliffhanger.

I'm going to be talking about The Deadly Inheritance of Everest MacDonald by AJ West.

I've been talking to Sally about that one.

Very nice.

Yeah.

But I didn't.

And then I picked up The Deadly Inheritance of Everest MacDonald by AJ West.

Let me read to you the blurb.

She's a published author but also a gardener at various historic homes, working among the landscapes that have nurtured her love for the historical past, as well as her obsession with the darker side of fiction, being inspired by the cycles of life, death and decay experienced in the natural world.

Her debut Spider Spider came out earlier this year and the author Anna Mazzola called it as black as night and as cleverly woven as a spider's web and AJ West described Libby as a thrilling new voice in the world of gothic fiction.

Well I concur with both of them and I'm thrilled to welcome Libby today to Talking the Gothic.

So hello Libby, Elsie Winter.

Yes.

We've got AJ West and Matt Cain.

That is going to be hilarious.

That's going to be fun.

Yeah.

that was a good book I think people should read that yes we have got AJ West coming to the shop we do indeed yes with Matt Cain in precisely I think one month lovely so he'll be coming with Matt Cain he'll be talking about well he'll be talking about so Matt will be talking about the castle of stories and AJ will be talking about the deadly inheritance of Everest McDonald oh yes but we may just get him going on how queer bookshops change the world well exactly he's got two books out so why not Did you read books while you were away?

This was the plan.

I took like three and then spent most of the week reading one of them.

Another restock of a very, very popular book, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.

Now, I remember when AJ West came here for his very first ever book signing when he was doing The Spirit Engineer.

He said to me, I always traditionally buy a book when I visit an independent bookshop.

Have you got Fingersmith by Sarah Waters? And I said, yes.

It includes refreshments and Donna will do breath work and some meditation and some ecotherapy and then talk you through doing...

Different things in your journal and what you can use your journal for, which will be really good.

What else have we got? Oh, AJ West is coming back.

So we said earlier that he came here a few years ago.