BIG BOOK CLUB BASH
Feel for the painting - wincing next to my brightly coloured cover for this shoot
Drinks, canapes and talking books with me and author / screenwriter Cesca Major. At Jenna Burlingham’s beautiful gallery in Kingsclere . 25th April 6.30-9pm.
In aid of Royal Springboard through The Cheam Foundation BOOK TICKETS
MY WORK IS DONE
Katherine Heiny is one of my all-time favourite authors.
Receiving her praise is this writer’s version of the phone ringing and it’s the guy from the classroom you’ve had a crush on, forever.
APPLE STAFF PICKS 2023
Having just read ‘If I Survive You’ by Jonathan Escoffrey — hilarious, brilliant, heartbreaking — I was especially delighted to be in this company on Apple’s 2023 Staff Picks list.
EVENTS …
19th September — Buxton Books, Barnes & Noble, Charleston, USA
27th September — The Yard with Beth O’Leary
2nd October — Serpentine Pavilion architect with @linaghotmeh and @libby_heaney
NEW! - WHITE COCO Book Club
Gorgeous King’s Road retailer White Coco is launching a new Book Club with Theory as their inaugural book!
I’ll be in their beautiful store in London on 26th October from 3.30pm, signing books. Or join us for fizz and book chat 6-8pm. White Coco
With Kay Burley on SKY News
Sky News’ Kay Burley, an author herself who supports female writers, kindly invited me onto her Breakfast show to chat about The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything. Lights, Camera, Action (but make-up first). Fun!
Barnes & Noble choose The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything as their Monthly Fiction Pick
I’m over the moon that Barnes & Noble have chosen The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything as their Fiction Pick for March 2023.
Best of the Month – Apple Books
‘Painful sibling conflict, deep unresolved grief and the destructive secrets families can keep (not to mention the potential total collapse of global security) are all thoughtfully explored in this intelligent and tender novel.’ Full review in ‘Press’
Sibling Gold for Bookshop.org
Siblings are pure gold for fiction. I shared some of my favourite sibling novels on Bookshop.org. Any of them would make a good present for Siblings Day … or any day. Good sisters will understand receiving My Sister, the Serial Killer ;)
STEMlit, or Lablit
Characters that rock white coats, can recite the DNA code of box jellyfish or think quadratic equations are more fun than beach bats, make for fabulous fiction; their lives as messy as our own. Starting with all-time hit, William Boyd’s Brazzaville beach — two for the price of one scientists/mathematicians — here’s some of my Favourite STEMlit.
WHSmith’s Airport Exclusives pick
The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything is travelling! Top slot at airports thanks to WHSmith’s Airport Exclusives Pick, and HUDSON in the USA, has sent it to endless far flung places. Thanks to everyone for all the photographs – keep them coming. Or better still, take me with you…
Audio Book Q&A
So this was fun! Recording a Q&A for the end of the audiobook. Especially interesting as there’s lots of audio/foley (a kind of post-production sound artist) in the novel. Alice Gray from Pan Macmillan should go professional as interviewer! Thanks to Laura Marlow and Jonas Gustafsson at Strathmore Publishing. Loved it! You can listen to the audio book of The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything with Audible in the UK and the USA.
Proof copy arrives
‘Proof’ means different things to different people. A mathematical term, evidence of love, the trial impression of a page, resistant to water or flames. Proof is some of these things in The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything but not all. I won’t be dropping my copy of the beautiful UK proof in the bath!