Bookable Space with Yvonne Battle-Felton

Love being read to? In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Emily Johnson reading Pushing Through the Cracks. Pushing Through The Cracks   Four years ago, Emily, a divorced mother of two, was living her best life with a new partner and a blended family of six. But then addiction and mental illness entered her home uninvited, threatening to tear the whole family apart. With an alcoho...

Love being read to? In this episode of Bookable Space, joined by host Yvonne Battle-Felton, Carolyn Korsmeyer reads Charlotte's Story. About the author: A longtime admiration for Jane Austen led Carolyn Korsmeyer to write Charlotte’s Story. Her second novel, Little Follies, will be published in January, 2023. She is also the author of numerous philosophical works, including Things: In Touch with t...

Love being read to? In this episode of Bookable Space, Kate Frost reads An Italian Dream. About the author : Kate Frost is the author of several bestselling romantic escape novels including  The Greek Heart  and  The Amsterdam Affair . In 2021, she signed a six book deal with Boldwood. Two books have been published so far,  An Italian Dream  and Amazon UK Kindle top 50 bes...

Love being read to? In this episode of Bookable Space, Sorayya Khan reads We Take Our Cities with Us.  About the book : Even when we leave them, our cities never leave us. After her Dutch mother’s death, Sorayya Khan confronts her grief by revisiting their relationship, her parents’ lives, and her own Pakistani-Dutch heritage in a multicultural memoir that unfolds over seven cities and three cont...

Joined by host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Lorraine Wilson with The Way the Light Bends . Lorraine is a conservation scientist who now lives by the sea in Scotland writing speculative fiction influenced by folklore and the wilderness. She runs a mentorship programme for marginalised writers and The Way The Light Bends is her second novel, with a third coming out l...

Love being read to as much as I do? In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Roslyn Reid reading The Spiricom. Bio: Amazon best-selling and international award-winning author Roslyn Reid lives with her Great Pyrenees and husband in Downeast Maine, where she gardens, lifts weights, and hikes. A former model, she contributed to Llewellyn's annual almanacs for several decades and has written...

Love being read to? Hosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Joseph Hutchison reading Under Sleep's New Moon. About the book :   Poet Joseph Hutchison on rescuing unfinished poems from the faraway land called  youth . About the poet:  Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate (2014-2019), has published 20 poetry collections, including  Under S...

Love being read to? Hosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode features Peter Marlton reading from Eternal Graffiti. About the author : Peter Marlton  is the pseudonym for Pete MacDonald, who has discovered that writing fiction under another name can be psychologically and artistically liberating—it somehow skirts, without wholly avoiding, the imposter syndrome. Stories and essays published...

Like being read to? Hosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Marisa Noelle reading from The Unraveling of Luna Forester. BIO:   Marisa Noelle is the writer of middle grade & young adult novels in the genres of science-fiction, fantasy, horror & mental health including  The Shadow Keepers ,  The Unadjusteds Trilogy (The Unadjusteds, The Rise of...

Hosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Michele Sheldon with The Macaw of Doom. Michele is the author of the Missing Fur series, children’s books themed around endangered species and conservation. The second in the series  The Macaw of Doom  was published in May. Michele worked as a journalist for many years and also writes short stories, pl...

Love being read to? Hosted by novelist Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Paul Waters reading Blackwatertown . About the book: When maverick police sergeant Jolly Macken is banished to a sleepy 1950s Irish border village, he vows to find the killer of his brother – even if the murderer is in the police. But a lot can happen in a week. Over seven days Macken falls in love...

Love being read to? Hosted by novelist Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Fred Misurella reading Arrangement in Black and White. About the book : An interracial marriage in the 1970s: She's white, he's black; but their problems are more than racial. For information about Yvonne's books, events, and more vist https://www.yvonnebattlefelton.com/ or sign up to Yvonne's Subs...

Love being read to? Hosted by novelist Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Mark Stay reading The Ghost of Ivy Barn - The Witches of Woodville III. THE GHOST OF IVY BARN - THE WITCHES OF WOODVILLE III As the Battle of Britain rages overhead, a warlock leader from the Council of High Witches comes to Woodville with a ritual to repel the imminent Nazi invasion. The only catc...

Love being read to? Hosted by novelist Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Sandra Cavallo Miller reading Out of Patients. Summary:  After practicing medicine for over thirty years, Norah Waters MD is weighing her options, and early retirement looks better and better. At age fifty-eight, who needs midnight calls, cranky patients, and business headaches? Fighting burno...

Love being read to? Hosted by novelist Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Ann Buscho reading The Parent's Guide to Birdnesting: a Child-Centered Solution to Co-Parenting During Separation and Divorce? About the book : Take coparenting to the next level and provide a stable environment for your children as you and your spouse begin tackling your separation or divorce. For...

Love being read to? Hosted by novelist Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Janet Dean Knight reading The Peacemaker . As the war to end all wars is about to be followed by another, a young woman finds her life taking the same tragic course as her mother's. One night in the summer of 1938 Violet Lowther’s mother Peggy is dying, her father Ellis is drunk in the pub, and Vio...

Love being read to? Hosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, in this episode of Bookable Space, we're joined by Nita Sweeney reading Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink and Make Every Move a Meditation: Mindful Movement for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Insight About the book : #1 Best Seller in Running & Jogging, Exercise & Fitness, Depression,...

Love being read to? Hosted by novelist Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Liz Alternman reading from The Perfect Neighborhood . About the book : When actress and model Allison Langley leaves her former rockstar husband, Christopher, in the middle of the night, it’s all her Oak Hill neighbors can talk about. The gossip comes to an abrupt halt when five-year-old Billy Barn...

In this episode of Bookablel Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Maximilian Hawker reading from About the Author   Maximilian Hawker is a children's social worker who lives in Croydon, South London, with his wife and two daughters. He is author of the novels  Breaking the Foals  and  Rory Hobble and the Voyage to Haligogen  (both published by Unbound). Since...

Hosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Betty Bolte with Becoming Lady Washington. Betty Bolté is an award-winning author and editor of fiction and nonfiction books. She earned a Master’s Degree in English in 2008, emphasizing the study of literature. She’s authored 25+ books, most recently  Becoming Lady Washington  and  Notes of Love and War . She l...

Hosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, in this episode, author Lenore Hart reads from Waterwoman. About the book : Tiny, remote Revels Island lies just off the coast of the Eastern Shore, a remote peninsula of fishing villages that knows nothing of the partying, gin-soaked Roaring Twenties gripping the rest of the country. The Revels family work Atlantic and Chesapeake Bay for their living, and tragedy i...

Hosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features James W. White reading from Carp Cafe. About the book: Master story-teller James W. White is back with a guaranteed good time story set in the surf-side town of Carpinteria, California in the aftermath of the horrific Thomas wildfire. Everyone's got a bit of PTSD, what with the burning mountains and rising sea levels squeezing...

Hosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Stephen Cox with Our Child of the Stars. About the author: In 2012 I stopped wanting to be a writer and actually did it. I spent nearly all my childhood in Bristol, and I’m now an adoptive Londoner.  I have a partner and two adult children.  I’m a professional communicator, a science PhD dropout, a rec...

Hosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Erika Bornman with Mission of Malice . About the book: When Erika Bornman was nine years old, her family joined, and ultimately moved to, KwaSizabantu, a Christian mission in South Africa – a place touted as a nirvana, founded on egalitarian values. But something sinister lurks below the veneer of piousness here. Lif...

Hosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features guest Paul Tudor Owen reading from The Weighing of the Heart. About the author: Paul Tudor Owen was born in Manchester in 1978, and was educated at the University of Sheffield, the University of Pittsburgh, and the London School of Economics.  He began his career as a local newspaper reporter in north-west...