Thursday 15th July 6 pm - Heffers Bookshop Cambridge
It's that time of year again! Yes - Bodies in the Bookshop at Heffers 20 Trinity Street. This is one of the nicest events of the year: civilized Cambridge, delightful Heffers, and charming people - readers and writers - all chattering, signing books, sipping wine and discussing crime and murder in congenial circumstances. I am really looking forward to being there and meeting old friends and making new ones. My fourth novel, Bones In High Places, in the Revd Francis Oughterard series will be having its first official outing, so along with many other criminal narrators I shall be there wielding a pen and loitering with intent. Tickets are £5 obtainable from the Ground Floor Cash Desk at Heffers, Tel: 01223 - 568568 or email:
literature@heffers.co.uk
May 27th 2010: This is the official date for the issue in paperback of the first three Revd Francis Oughterard novels - A Load Of Old Bones, Bones In The Belfry and Bone Idle.
They are published by Robinson (an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd) and will retail at £6.99. ISBNs respectively:
1) 978-1-84901-0962
2) 978-1-84901-095-5
3) 978-1-84901-094-8
A number of readers have said they have had difficulty in obtaining the first novel, A Load Of Old Bones, which is now almost out of print. So it will be good to see it more readily accessible again next year. With publication date being so close to the Bristol Crimefest, I am rather hoping that stocks of the paperbacks will be available there.
The Last Laugh Award:
This year’s Bristol Crimefest was most convivial and stimulating, and it was gratifying to have Bone Idle placed on the short list for The Last Laugh Award. It didn’t win - but it was tremendous fun being on the panel with fellow humorous crime writers Chris Ewan, Malcolm Pryce and Len Tyler. Unfortunately the winner Colin Bateman could not be there, but I thoroughly recommend his splendidly titled The Day of the Jack Russell!
August 2010
This month sees publication of number four in the Revd Francis Oughterard series. Bones In High Places (this time set largely in France) has been fun to write and involves the vicar, animals, bishop etc. in some very peculiar goings on! Meanwhile the following one, A Bedlam of Bones, is becoming coherent - or at least, as coherent as they ever are! - and should be out next year.
Unfortunately there has been an unexpected 'blip' in the advertised paperback schedule (originally intended for May) but my publishers indicate that these will appear in the fullness of time!
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