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Hello and welcome!

I am currently busy working on my new novel, Borderlands. For the first time since Labyrinth twenty years ago, I’m returning to a medieval/modern time-slip adventure thriller set partly in Norman France at Le Mont Saint-Michel and partly in Sussex on the eve of the Norman Conquest. It’s inspired by a little slice of Mosse family history, and local Chichester history, and I’ve been planning this book for a very long time. It’s due out in summer 2007, a year which is the one thousandth anniversary of the birth of William the Conqueror himself!

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Ahead of that, in September 2026, my love letter to Sussex and to the best season of the year will publish. Autumn: The Story of a Season has been a joy to write, reliving all my autumns and putting some of the folklore of my home county onto the page. It’s part of a series with Michael Morpurgo’s Spring, Bernardine Evaristo’s Summer and Val McDermid’s Winter.

Finally, 2026 is the National Year of Reading – I’m delighted to be an ambassador for this amazing initiative and to be ‘Going All In’ to promote reading in all its forms. To all the readers, writers, booksellers, librarians, publishers, trade associations, literary festivals, journalists, thank you for your amazing support, not only for my books but for promoting and sharing your love of reading in all the brilliant ways that you do. I hope that together we will inspire even more people to find the joy that reading can bring. Remember, it doesn’t matter what you are reading, only that you enjoy it and pass it on.