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Pushkin Vertigo Spotlight: The Second Woman by Louise Mey
Posted 16th July 2021
Louise Mey is the author of the upcoming noir, The Second Woman, which is available for preorder now. As part of the Vertigo Spotlight Week, we sat down and asked her some questions about her book and it’s heroine. Tell…
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Pushkin Vertigo Spotlight: The Others by Sarah Blau
Posted 15th July 2021
Sarah Blau is the author of the chilling and darkly comic thriller, The Others. As part of our Pushkin Vertigo Spotlight Week, we sat down with Sarah and asked her a few questions about her inspirations, hurdles and current reading…
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Pushkin Vertigo Spotlight: Pretty as a Picture by Elizabeth Little
Posted 14th July 2021
Pretty as a Picture is the story of Marissa, a shy but successful film editor, who takes a prestigious job on a closed island film set. Soon, things turn murderous, and Marissa finds herself playing detective in the editing room.…
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Pushkin Vertigo Spotlight: Girl, 11 by Amy Suiter Clarke
Posted 13th July 2021
As part of our Pushkin Vertigo Spotlight Week, we sat down with Amy Suiter Clarke, author of the gripping true-crime-podcast-inspired-thriller, Girl, 11, and asked her a few questions about the book, her obsessions and what she’s reading next. Tell us…
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Welcome to Pushkin Vertigo Spotlight Week!
Posted 12th July 2021
Hello! This week, we’re focusing in on six of our phenomenal women writers from the Pushkin Vertigo crime list. Representing a wide range of people in their protagonists and storylines, these six titles are some of the most exciting voices…
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Pushkin Vertigo Spotlight: The Eighth Girl by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung
Posted 8th July 2021
Maxine Mei-Fung Chung is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author of gritty and confounding The Eighth Girl. As part of our Pushkin Vertigo Spotlight Week, we sat down with Maxine and asked her a few questions about what this book and…
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Susan Steinberg: On Writing
Posted 9th June 2021 by Susan Steinberg
As jagged as it is beautiful, as poetic as it is furious, Machine by Susan Steinberg is a propulsive story of communal guilt in the wake of a young girl’s drowning. Out now in paperback, we asked author Susan Steinberg…
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‘Writing is Alchemy’: Susie Bower on Alchemy and The Three Impossibles
Posted 3rd June 2021 by Susie Bower
When eleven year old Mim meets the last living Alchemist—Trismegistus MacWhisker—she asks him what Alchemy is. He replies: ‘Alchemy is the art of Transformation. Its goal is to set right what is wrong; to change what is inferior or imperfect…
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Five Books That Inspired Three-Fifths
Posted 20th May 2021 by John Vercher
Crime drama. Thriller. Even mystery. Each one of these classifications were applied to my debut novel at one time or another before and after publication. While these labels apply to Three-Fifths to varying extents, I never set out with the…
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A Q&A with Jonathan Ames
Posted 4th May 2021
Jonathan Ames is the author of ten books including Wake Up, Sir!, The Extra Man and You Were Never Really Here, all published by Pushkin Press. He also created the hit HBO comedy Bored to Death, starring Ted Danson, Zach Galifianakis and Jason Schwartzman, as…
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