Bookable Space

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, uncovers dark family secrets, accidentally starts a war, is hailed a hero and branded a traitor. When Blackwatertown explodes into violence, who can he trust? And is betrayal the only way to survive?  About the author: Paul Waters is an award-winning BBC producer and co-host of We’d Like A Word, runner-up 2020 Books Podcast of the Year. Paul grew up in Belfast during ‘the Troubles’ and was a BBC TV/radio reporter and producer. Paul once made Pelé his dinner, created a G8 Summit in a South African township, went undercover in Zimbabwe, conducted football crowds, reported from Swiss drug shooting-up rooms, smuggled a satellite dish into Cuba and produced the BBC’s live coverage of the 9/11 attacks on America. He also taught in Poland, drove a cab in England, busked in Wales, was a night club cook in New York, designed computer systems in Dublin, presented podcasts for Germans and organises music festivals. 

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.

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 IIIAs 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 catch is it involves full-frontal nudity on the White Cliffs of Dover. The Witches of Woodville are having none of it, but when more witches arrive they realise they might have a spy in their midst, and it’s up to Faye Bright to uncover the traitor. But she’s got enough on her plate already with the ghost of a Polish Hurricane pilot who may hold the key to the truth. MARK STAY BIOMark Stay got a part-time Christmas job at Waterstone’s in the nineties (back when it still had an apostrophe) and, despite being working class and quite lippy, somehow ended up working in publishing for over 25 years. He would write in his spare time and sometimes those writings would get turned into books and films, including the Witches of Woodville series from Simon & Schuster, and the forthcoming Warner Bros. horror movie Unwelcome.Mark is also co-presenter of the Bestseller Experiment podcast, which has inspired writers all over the world to finish and publish their books. Born in London, he lives in Kent with Youtube gardener and writer Claire Burgess and a declining assortment of retired chickens.