HOT NEWS !!!

Susan is going to become co-owner of the re-opening CHIPPING CAMPDEN BOOKSHOP, as from mid-September. Partners are Jaffe and Neale who already run the award-winning Indie Bookshop of that name in Chipping Norton.

The Chipping Campden Bookshop closed in June this year and will re-open with Susan very much on board and often - though not always - in the shop. You will be able to come in and buy her books or bring your existing copies to have signed. It is a tiny shop but we have lots of exciting plans, there will be a great stock with books you don`t find everywhere, let alone in every supermarket. Chipping Campden is an unspoilt small market town in the North Cotswolds, with lovely walks, a magnificent church, lots of coffee shops, tea rooms and excellent hotels. And it doesn`t look like 'every other High Street,' shop-wise - it has also been called the most beautiful High Street in England.

More news about the opening. Come along, spend a morning, afternoon, day, weekend in Chipping Campden and buy and browse. Susan can also be in the shop 'by appointment' if you want to bring books/have books signed etc.

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'Totally beguiling, utterly persuasive.' Michael Gove. The Times 'A little jewel of a memoir that will be irresistible to any

bookworm.' The Independent

The paperback edition is now published, price 8.99 but you can buy SIGNED for just £6, including postage. This is a limited offer and when stocks are gone it will revert to full price, though still for signed copies and post free.

COMING SHORTLY. PRE-ORDERS being taken for Susan's new ghost story THE SMALL HAND, out in October. Signed, first edition, first printing copies will be available from September.

I am delighted that the 4th Serrailler crime novel THE VOWS OF SILENCE has been put onto this prestigious award. The Harrogate Crime Writing Festival is sponsored by Theakstons beers and Old Peculier in Particulier.

If you have read and enjoyed THE VOWS OF SILENCE and would like to vote for it to appear on the Shortlist, PLEASE VOTE FOR IT HERE.

The prize now known as the Man Booker was not awarded in 1970 but now a competition to find the lost winner has been launched by Man Booker and Susan's novel I`M THE KING OF THE CASTLE, published in that year, has been longlisted for the prize, among 21 others many of whose authors are no longer alive.

The short list will be chosen by a panel of 3 in March and the eventual winner chosen by public vote at the Man Booker website. If I`M THE KING OF THE CASTLE is shortlisted and you would like to vote for it to win - especially if you absolutely loved it as your GCSE set book ! - there will be a link here.