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Autumn 2017
With Tulip Fever’s imminent release in the UK, here’s a piece I wrote for the Hollywood Reporter (the film has already been released in the USA and other territories). At the time of writing (Sept 8)...
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Rather thrillingly – very thrillingly – I’ve been given an OBE (“for services to literature and drama”). It actually made the front page of our local paper here in Wales, the Powys County Times,...
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Much to my astonishment, ‘Tulip Fever’ is apparently coming to cinemas on 7 December. This whole twenty-year-old saga (see previous postings) might be coming to an end at last. It has been both bizarre...
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The paperback of my latest novel, “Something To Hide,” is in the shops now – do buy it! – and I’m adapting it for BBC Films. It’s complicated, as it takes place in Beijing, Texas, a fictitious African...
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It’s been ages since my last posting, but that’s partly because I still hadn’t been given a release date for “Tulip Fever”. Thank God we seem to have one, at last – the end of August. This is...
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I’ve just got proof copies of my new novel The Carer– nice and early as it’s not published until July. I described it in my last posting – basically it’s a comedy about class, and death, and family...
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SPRING 2019
I’m gearing up for The Carer’s publication in July with various events and festivals planned – Wrexham on April 29th, Hay in May/June, Emma Bridgewater’s Festival in Stoke on 8 June (where I’m...
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LATE SPRING 2019
Things are revving up for the publication of The Carer in July. I’m doing a special early-publication gig at the Hay Festival on 2 June, where copies will be available hot off the press. If any of you...
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EARLY SUMMER 2019
As summer hots up (at last) events are hotting up for the publication of The Carer on 8 July. If you’re in the West Country, or the Cotswolds, I’m appearing at the wonderful Ways With Words literary...
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LATE SUMMER
An extraordinary thing happened with The Carer. Within an hour of my appearing on BBC Breakfast TV it shot to number 1 on Amazon. It didn’t stay there long but it was rather thrilling, and just shows...
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