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. [...]

New Novel

June 14th, 2010 Good morning, A Winter’s Tale (or at least I think that’s what you are going to be called). Starting a new novel is a strange business – it seems so weirdly final, I keep thinking there must be something else I need to do (the washing up? dance round a maypole?) but [...]

yoga breath

Thursday 28th May, 2010 Exactly a week to go until the launch. This is probably the worst part of publishing a book – the part when nothing seems to be happening, the calm before the storm (or so you hope) of reviews, events, lectures, the book finally appearing in the shops. One of my events [...]

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