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Delighted to announce that my latest book, Reasonable People, is being published by Orion in hardback, ebook and audio on 3 August 2023.
I am so happy to be able to share the news that I have signed a new two-book deal with Orion Fiction.
I’m sorry to say that all my bookshop events to celebrate the Launch of Like a House on Fire in April-June 2020 have been cancelled.
UK proof copies have started going out for Like a House on Fire in Nov/Dec 19 and they are beautiful. They look like this:
Les Adultes has just come out in France, and has been getting some great coverage in the press. Here are a couple of my faves, from Libération and Elle. I particularly like the picture of the rabbit mask.
I’m really happy with my next book, Like a House On Fire, and am delighted to confirm it will be published by Orion Fiction in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the Commonwealth in hardback/ebook/audiobook in April 2020.
I’ve been trying to keep this under wraps for a while, and I’m so pleased to be able to tell you that The Adults has been optioned for TV by Tiger Aspect!
I was on a blog tour for the UK launch of The Adults in August 2018, and went on Anne Cater’s Random Things Through my Letterbox blog, talking about the books that had shaped my life.
There’s quite a mix in here of contemporary crime, comedy, and maths and poker. There’s also an unnamed book that proved surprisingly influential, and my teenage go-to encyclopedia.
Well, that was a first.
I went on National Public Radio in the US talking about poker and The Adults, and about my view that insecurity brings the worst out in people.
I joined Holly Seddon and Gillian McAllister for an episode of the Honest Authors’ Podcast. We talk about football management, how diamond shoes can feel strangely ill-fitting sometimes, and what a weird job writing is in general.
I know a lot of people are looking for advice about writing books, and how to get published. You will see this is a short post.
I had the surreal experience when I was in New York of being interviewed by Ellen Gamerman at the Wall Street Journal, when I talked to her about about ‘tilt’, ego and blame — in poker, and in life in general — and about the life lessons that can be taken from playing games with people for money.
My North American publishers at Random House have put a beautiful Christmas GIF together for The Adults. The dog has noticed I keep watching and keeps looking at me like I’m a weird narcissist.
Random House do a regular Instagram feature on writers’ rooms, and they recently featured me and mine (more specifically, my writing room/spare bedroom).
I recently went on The Bestseller Experiment Podcast with my Orion Editor, Emad Akhtar, talking about the fun and humiliations of the editing process, ‘soupy’ first drafts, and how the author/editor relationship works.
Ahead of publication of The Adults in North America by Random House, the fab people at my literary agency Hardman & Swainson have pulled together a summary of key pre-publication reviews and features.
Charlotte Philby interviewed me for Marie Claire’s ‘Writers bloc’ series about my working habits, imposter syndrome, and what it’s like writing for a living, rather than having (what I’ve learnt not to refer to as) a ‘real job’.