Archive for June, 2008
Jane Green loose in London…
I’m sitting in the Penguin office having raided the children’s book cupboard (sorry if you can’t find anything left), and in something of a sweat as one of my idols is somewhere in the vicinity… As mother of a six-year-old, my entire family is obsessed with Charlie and Lola, including me, and Lauren Child is [...]
New London book signing on Thursday!!!
Due to popular demand – thank you everyone who said they’d come if we put a signing in – I’ll be at Waterstones on Oxford Street, at 1pm, on Thursday 12th June to sign copies and say hello. Please drop by if you’re in town…
Hats, glorious hats…
Martha Stewart just blogged about our day last Sunday at the Hole in the Wall Gang polo match, so I’m going to put the picture up here too, mostly because I just LOVE my hat! Seriously, there are few things I think we Brits do better than our American counterparts, and hats is definitely one [...]
Thank you Times Picayune!
THE BEACH HOUSEBy Jane Green (Viking, $24.95) British novelist Jane Green has a keen sense of social comedy, and writerly charms to match. This book opens with a scene women readers of a certain age will adore: Nan Powell, 65, stops for a skinny dip in her absent neighbor’s pool, then cycles into the village [...]
Bestseller lists
So last night I was sitting on the train obsessively playing with my new blackberry when an email came through from my publicist. ‘Congratulations’, she wrote. ‘The paperback of Second Chance is on the New York Times bestseller list!’It’s true! On the first week of publication I’ve gone straight in at number ten, which is [...]
