Isabel Ashdown
Author
About Isabel
Isabel’s writing career was first launched when she won the Mail on Sunday Novel Competition in 2008, with judges Fay Weldon, Michael Ridpath and the late Sir John Mortimer describing her work as ‘magnificent.’ The completed novel, Glasshopper (Myriad Editions), went on to be…
Books
In 2018 Little Sister was shortlisted for The Dead Good Reader Awards, shortly followed by the release of Isabel’s second dark and beautifully twisty thriller, Beautiful Liars … OUT NOW. Eighteen years ago Martha said goodbye to best friend Juliet on a moonlit London towpath. The next…
Book Club
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Celebrating the Nation’s Libraries
This week I’ve been working with West Sussex Libraries, meeting members of Bognor Regis reading groups, and chatting with the team at Pageturners – all in celebration of Libraries Week. If you’re looking for a reading group to join, contact your local library for…
Writing on location … in Norway
Location is an essential anchor within any story, and it’s an element I frequently return to when I’m invited to host creative writing workshops at universities and festivals. Indeed, later this week I’ll be at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, running a ‘Creative…
How I Write: The Bestseller Experiment
This week I had the great pleasure of chatting with writer and podcaster extraordinaire Mark Stay on The Bestseller Experiment, as he asked me questions about getting published, my writing processes, and how I set about plotting the many twists and turns in my…
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