Home now. And it’s time to celebrate. Happy birthday 🎁 🎂, literary baby. This calls for a fine French one. Cheers!🥂
Home now. And it’s time to celebrate. Happy birthday 🎁 🎂, literary baby. This calls for a fine French one. Cheers!🥂
It’s quite fortunate that I’ve been languishing in the ridiculous luxury of Cape Kidnappers and attending to other writerly duties for the past four days, because I haven’t had the opportunity to get too anxious about the launch of The Emerald Tablet tomorrow. You know what it’s like when something you’ve been anticipating and looking …
… if I disappear, I’ve holed up here at The Farm at Cape Kidnappers. Can you imagine a more idyllic place to write? And to all of you who told me how much I’d love New Zealand? Yeah. You were right. Don’t gloat. It’s a very unappealing trait.
To those of you who have been, or are, enjoying a weekend break from the social medias, I’d hate you to miss out. Because… free stuff! And a chance to get your mitts on a copy of The Emerald Tablet plus some other Turkish-themed goodies. Head to yesterday’s post for all the details. It’s prompted …
Yeah! Freebies!! Why? Because I’m overwhelmed with excitement about the upcoming release of my next novel, The Emerald Tablet… and because who doesn’t like a freebie, right? So, we’ve got ourselves three prizes, all Turkish-themed, natch! To the winner, signed (and inscribed, if you like) copies of my two Benedict Hitchens novels, along with a …
People often ask me why I’m a little obsessed with Turkey. Yes, I’m back there again in my new novel, The Emerald Tablet. Can’t stay away. This place – and the people who live there – has a great deal to do with it. Bodrum. Thanks to our beautiful friends, Bahadir Berkaya and Chris Drum, …
Now I know what an elephant feels like. After a very long gestation, the birth of my new novel is just two weeks away. Straddling the politics and history of Egypt, Israel, and Turkey, and set in one of the most turbulent periods of the 20th century, The Emerald Tablet is quite a ride! If …
Cat + attempting to write = an impossibility. I surrender.
As much as I was joking about struggling to write my dedication in ‘The Emerald Tablet’, there was never any question about the people I’d be nominating. It was always going to be my just-about-perfect two children. The difficult bit was deciding how to phrase it. What do you think… too irreverent? Hope they like …
So this just arrived in the post. 🤩 Very, very exciting. I can’t WAIT to share this with you. Countdown to release day on 25 June.