Mhairi McFarlane

Sep 6, 2024 | harpersbazaar.my | Elsie Silver |Stephanie Archer |Tessa Bickers |Mhairi McFarlane

September is the perfect time to fall in love – both in real life and on the pages of your next favourite read. As a new season unfolds, you can’t help but feel the romance in the air. And guess what? This month’s book releases are about to turn up the heat. Seriously, get ready for some heart-fluttering, steamy reads that will keep you hooked. Whether you’re craving a swoon-worthy small-town romance or even a supernatural love story, there’s something here to spice up your reading list.

Aug 1, 2024 | lithub.com | Nora Ephron |Mhairi McFarlane

Romance novelists Elle Everhart and Ellie Palmer join co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the genre’s increasing popularity.

Aug 12, 2023 | bookreporter.com | Mhairi McFarlane

It’s been 10 years since the formation of the so-called “Brian Club,” a WhatsApp group of friends who met one another while working at a Manchester bookstore. A decade later, some things have changed pretty dramatically for them. Dev, for example, overcame addiction and became a prize-winning reality TV star. He is now using his money to pay for fabulous vacations, like a lavish weekend at a “Downton Abbey”–style country manor, celebrating some notable milestones in the group’s lives.

Aug 1, 2023 | redcarpetcrash.com | Mhairi McFarlane

When Roisin and Joe join their friends for a weekend at a country house, it’s a triple celebration—a birthday, an engagement, and the launch of Joe’s shiny new TV show. But as the weekend unfolds, tensions come to light in the group and Roisin begins to question her own relationship. And as they watch the first episode of Joe’s drama, she realizes that the private things she told him—which should have stayed between them—are right there on the screen.

May 8, 2023 | natureconservancy.ca | Mhairi McFarlane

| I must admit to having a bit of a soft spot for sparrows. Often overlooked by people, and underappreciated by many, written off as “just” sparrows by birders, or “just” a brown bird by people in general, I think they do warrant more glory. Here in Canada, we actually have quite a few species. In fact, the Harris’s sparrow actually breeds nowhere else on Earth (although it migrates south through the U.S. in winter).