The Hobcast Book Show

Adrian Hobart

How do you launch a publishing house from scratch? The Hobcast brings you insights, interviews and ideas for aspiring authors and creative entrepreneurs, as well as anyone who loves books. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Hobcast Book Show

Episodes (215)

Nov 24, 2025 236: Secrets and suspense - with Jo Furniss
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The Hobcast Book Show

Nov 24, 2025
1½ hours
112 MB

Fear. There's a lot of it about currently. That's the currency of thriller and suspense authors of course, and our guest this week, British journalist and author Jo Furniss is brilliant at mining reader's inherent fears. Her most recent novel, Guilt Trip, poses a scenario all parents will dread: a minibus carrying the school swimming team never arrives back from a gala. The police don't know where it's gone and the school's 'no phones' policy means none of the kids has a device. They have vanished. Jo takes us through her craft, from original idea to finished novel, and...

The Hobcast Book Show

236: Secrets and suspense - with Jo Furniss

Adrian Hobart

00:00 -01:21:31