Hookline Favourite

A good novel is a partnership between a writer and readers. Writers create, and readers respond to the creation - no response can be a death knell.

At Hookline, we'd originally planned to publish only one winner a year. Until we saw that good works were being left behind.

Hence, the Hookline Favourite. Trevor Bloom's The Half-Slave was our first favourite, and this unusual novel has been praised by the Historic Novels Review, The Slingshot and other history journals on both sides of the Atlantic.

Today, we publish our second Hookline Favourite. Village Fate -A Country Tale of Cooks, Crooks and Chickens by PJ Davy is a comedy set in a very English village. Readers said it made them laugh out loud.

Writers create - readers respond. That is what publishing fiction is about.