Even darker…..

Just back from a week in the US – New York, Phoenix, Arizona, and a quick peek at the Grand Canyon -but it feels as though we have been away for months. The alleged reason for our visit was to accompany Anthony on part of his book tour to promote The Good Book (at times [...]

A Walk on the Dark Side?

It’s a strange experience ‘growing’ a novel – you never quite know what direction it’s going to take you in. I’ve been reading fairy tales for my research, and living with my character Celia Lamprey for some months now, trying to get inside her head. I did a lot of knocking, with no replies, for [...]

poster girl

Bloomsbury’s ravishing posters for The Pindar Diamond are now up all over the underground in London, and also in mainline stations round the country. I haven’t seen it yet myself, but friends keep emailing me photos of it, so I know it’s really there at last (Paddington, Bath-Spa…. I won’t mention them all, but I’d [...]

Eating My Hat

The paperback of The Pindar Diamond is published today. My editor spotted it at WHSmiths at Heathrow, Terminal 5, late last night (Sunday) and sent me a photo – (see my website, or better still find it in your nearest bookshop…) and I also saw it on the shelves at The White Horse Bookshop in [...]

Paul Pindar

25th June, 2010 The most extraordinary thing happened to me yesterday. I have been in an email correspondence with a man who is an expert on Jacobean furniture, and to whom Paul Pindar’s house, that amazing carved oak front which is no so beautifully on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is well known. [...]

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