Launch Party part 3

4th June, 2010 00.45 am Last guests just left. All my favourite people, friends and family, in one room – and garden – together. Every time I looked down there was Dog sitting at my feet. This is her first party, but evidently she has inherited the family party-loving gene…. I think she would have [...]

Launch Party part 2

3rd June, 2010 11am First reviews just come in – hurrah! Looks like the weather is a good augury after all. A nice mention in Good Housekeeping, and an even nicer one in London’s Stylist: “No one writes historical fiction more evocatively than Hickman…… The Pindar Diamond will keep you utterly entranced.” So, not a [...]

Launch party 1

3rd June, 2010 7.30 am Four days to go till publication. Woke up at 6.30 this morning to brilliant sunshine streaming in through the windows. Can’t quite believe it’s true – my launch party is tonight – but when I get up and look outside, it is true. This is going to be the most [...]

Hay on Wye

Ist June, 2010 Hay on Wye That’s it then. One more year, one more Guardian/Hay-on-Wye festival. I don’t think there’s more fun to be had anywhere else on this planet than in this one small and muddy green field in Herefordshire. Love doing my event – always do at Hay which always has a great [...]

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