Tag: novels

• May Reads 2026

  

  A quieter month in terms of writing and events, mainly concentrating on the day job – but I still found time for a strong month of reading with some top notch Scottish Crime fiction, the return of a couple of favourite characters and series, and book of the year so far – London Falling by…

  Iain Kelly

  01/06/2026

  book review, Books, Culture, Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction, novel, reading, Review

  book blogger, book review, books, creative writing, graphic novel, literature, may reads, novels, reading, Review, Writing

• THE STATE TRILOGY A-Z GUIDE: Z

  

  My A-Z theme this year is a guide to my trilogy of novels called ‘The State Trilogy’. Set in an unnamed island country known only as ‘The State’, in the imagined near future, the books follow the intertwining stories of a number of characters, principally a State police detective named Danny Samson and an assassin,…

  Iain Kelly

  30/04/2021

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, book review, Books, creative writing, novel

  #amreading, #amwriting, #atozchallenge, a justified state, a to z, A TO Z CHALLENGE, book review, creative writing, novels, Review, state of denial, state of war, the state, the state trilogy, Writing

• THE STATE TRILOGY A-Z GUIDE: Y

  

  My A-Z theme this year is a guide to my trilogy of novels called ‘The State Trilogy’. Set in an unnamed island country known only as ‘The State’, in the imagined near future, the books follow the intertwining stories of a number of characters, principally a State police detective named Danny Samson and an assassin,…

  Iain Kelly

  29/04/2021

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, book review, Books, creative writing, novel

  #amreading, #amwriting, #atozchallenge, a justified state, a to z, A TO Z CHALLENGE, book review, creative writing, novels, Review, state of denial, state of war, the state, the state trilogy, Writing

• THE STATE TRILOGY A-Z GUIDE: X

  

  My A-Z theme this year is a guide to my trilogy of novels called ‘The State Trilogy’. Set in an unnamed island country known only as ‘The State’, in the imagined near future, the books follow the intertwining stories of a number of characters, principally a State police detective named Danny Samson and an assassin,…

  Iain Kelly

  28/04/2021

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, book review, Books, creative writing, novel

  #amreading, #amwriting, #atozchallenge, a justified state, a to z, A TO Z CHALLENGE, book review, creative writing, novels, Review, state of denial, state of war, the state, the state trilogy, Writing

• THE STATE TRILOGY A-Z GUIDE: W

  

  My A-Z theme this year is a guide to my trilogy of novels called ‘The State Trilogy’. Set in an unnamed island country known only as ‘The State’, in the imagined near future, the books follow the intertwining stories of a number of characters, principally a State police detective named Danny Samson and an assassin,…

  Iain Kelly

  27/04/2021

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, book review, Books, creative writing, novel

  #amreading, #amwriting, #atozchallenge, a justified state, a to z, A TO Z CHALLENGE, book review, creative writing, novels, Review, state of denial, state of war, the state, the state trilogy, Writing