http://arlenehunt.com/blog A blog by Arlene Hunt Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:35:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Next month sees Book 2008 here in Dublin, a festival running from the 5th to the 7th of September. I will include the link and you can peruse at your leisure the terrific line up of writers who will be appearing-including Martin Amis, John Banville, John Connolly, Rebecca Miller, ... http://arlenehunt.com/blog/2008/08/13/crime-debate-and-murder-talk/ Hi all, here's the cover for Undertow, the new book that will be out in the early Autumn. Click to enlarge the image. [photopress:undertowcoverbig.jpg,thumb,pp_image] http://arlenehunt.com/blog/2008/06/24/undertow-cover/ Good evening. It's Tuesday the 13th of May, 13, a suspicious number for some but a golly an auspicious one for me it seems. I ought to update this blog more often but I doubt you'd really want to hear my day to day routine. It would be very repetitive ... http://arlenehunt.com/blog/2008/05/13/a-slow-march-across-the-globe-2/ A tale of intrigue, suspense and double-lives forms the basis of Arlene Hunt's latest novel 'Missing Presumed Dead'. A two-year-old girl called Katie is abducted from a beach in Ireland as she plays with her brother in the sunshine back in 1980. She is presumed dead by most of those who ... http://arlenehunt.com/blog/2008/03/25/rte-reviews-missing-presumed-dead/ Click the image to read [photopress:verbalreview_1.gif,thumb,pp_image] Link http://arlenehunt.com/blog/2008/02/12/verbal-magazine-reviews-mpd/ While sitting here at my desk earlier, chewing the end of a biro to ribbons and pondering the imponderable, namely how in the name of shark jumping I was going to get John out of the scrape I'd just written him into, my telephone rang. Wearily, blearily, non too cheerily I ... http://arlenehunt.com/blog/2008/01/15/5-alive/ This is the draft cover for the Dutch edition of Missing Presumed Dead. It's simply entitled 'Missing' and it looks fantastic. http://arlenehunt.com/blog/2007/12/04/mpd-dutch-cover/ I am making up part of a panel on Fionn Davenport's show Culture Shock tonight, on Newstalk 106. http://newstalk.ie/newstalk/programmes/20/culture-shock.html The topic is Mind of a murderer and it should be an interesting discussion. Why murder? What might drive a person to such a vicious and brutal act? Do we understand it? ... http://arlenehunt.com/blog/2007/11/17/a-murderous-melange/ I have just completed my first Dublin City Marathon and oh my god do I ache like a barely breathing corpse. However-despite the pain- I have never felt more alive than I do at this moment. It didn't occur to me that I could do it, after all it was ... http://arlenehunt.com/blog/2007/10/29/running-a-marathon/ Hello there readers, and good news on this sunny Friday morning. I've just received word that Missing Presumed Dead is to be published in the The Netherlands by the publishing house Verbum. This is my first foray into a foreign market and I'm so excited about it I could do ... http://arlenehunt.com/blog/2007/10/05/going-dutch/