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Signed copies of The Peace Garden available to buy!

The official launch is still a few weeks away, but you are still able to buy The Peace Garden, my romantic thriller, for your summer holidays!

“Definitely not your run-of-the-mill romantic thriller. What starts off as an investigation into missing plants turns into an international thriller. I couldn’t put it down.” – Abidemi Sanusi, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize nominee.

You can order The Peace Garden through any bookshop or online retailer. Or, you can buy a signed copy through The Crafty Publishing shop. If you would like to have it signed to you or anyone else, please make a note of this in the comments section when you pay. Or drop us a line through the online contact form.

First copies of The Peace Garden arrive. Don’t you just love when your book covers match your cushion covers?
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Book table at Heaton Festival

Looking forward to this year’s Heaton Festival where Crafty Publishing will have a book table. We will be selling all of the Young David Books, including the latest, Lonely Prince, as well as hot-off-the press print copies of The Peace Garden, a literary thriller for grown ups. The Peace Garden has been doing very well as an e-book but due to popular demand Crafty Publishing are bringing out a print version. If you can’t get to the festival and still want a copy, you should be able to order through their website by next week. Watch this space!

I was part of the storytelling team at the last Heaton Festival, two years ago, and debuted the first in the Young David series, David and the Hairy Beast. Lots of fun 🙂

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Life in Apartheid South Africa and my writing life

Commonwealth Prize nominee and Nigerian author Abidemi Sanusi, has recently interviewed me about my book The Peace Garden and what it was like moving to and living in South Africa during the Apartheid 80s. She also asks me about my writing life – among other things!.  It is an honour to share webspace with this talented writer. Thank you Abidemi Sanusi http://www.readywritermag.com/interview-fiona-veitch-smith-author-the-peace-garden/

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Another 5-star review for The Peace Garden

The Peace GardenI’m delighted to see another 5-star review for The Peace Garden.

“This story takes a strange course – from the theft of plants in 1990, to attempted murder and assassination plots in 2001, by way of South Africa in the apartheid years. All bound together around the wonder and the challenge of growing things. Along the way, we meet some marvellous characters – all of them drawn with depth, with colour, with humour and with a deep sympathy. As events unfold the central character, Natalie, has to confront some deep issues, such as courage and justice and love and belonging. Through it, we can see her growing, and perhaps we grow a little along with her. A wonderfully well crafted book.”

It really touches me when readers time the time to write such encouraging words. Thank you. If you’ve read the book then please consider leaving a review too. And if not, well, you know what to do … 😉 Check out The Peace Garden at Crafty Publishing.

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36th Anniversary of Soweto Riots

fiona-veitch-smith-the-peace-gardenToday is the 36th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising – 16 June 1976. That infamous point in history, when black school children demonstrated for the right to be taught in English, forms an integral part of my literary thriller The Peace Garden about a young English girl who befriends a South African political exile. If you would like a ‘novel’ take on how that day 36 years ago impacted one family for three generations, get hold of my book. If you’re still unsure, check out the reviews. It’s an e-book and only $0.99.

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New review for Peace Garden

My literary thriller, The Peace Garden, has just received another good review on Amazon US Kindle.
Really intersting to read all the reviews and see that readers each got something different from it. Some loved the English bit, others the South African; some picked up on the humour, others the tragedy. If you have read the book I’d really appreciate it if you would write a review, as it helps raise its profile and tickles me pink to know I’m helping to put a smile on people’s faces. Ta very muchly. Oh, and you might be interested to know how I got the idea for the book in the first place and how much of it is autobiographical … Where did The Peace Garden come from?

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