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Maxim Jakubowski review of Prime Minister’s Affair for Crime Time

Super review of PM’s Affair by crime and thriller aficionado, Maxim Jakubowski: His new novel quietly ticks all the boxes… Albeit set in a period Le Carré never explored, this has …

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The Sun’s Book of the Week

The Prime Minister’s Affair is pick of the week in The Sun today. Sort of timely, with the future of the current incumbent in some doubt. Are there parallels? You …

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Proof of The Prime Minister’s Affair

  Proof copies of The Prime Minister’s Affair are on there way to reviewers. The front cover will become the jacket for the hardback. I think it’s great; I hope …

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Cover for The Prime Minister’s Affair

Hodder have been working on some cover designs for the new book. Should it be street scene Paris, Downing Street, or parliament? The action in the novel shifts between all …

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Copy edited Manuscript of The Prime Minister’s Affair submitted

Copy edited manuscript of The Prime Minister’s Affair back to Hodder before Christmas. The story of an attempt by a jilted lover to blackmail a Prime Minister – but not …

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Next book: The Prime Minister’s Affair

I am editing my latest book, my lockdown oeuvre, The Prime Minister’s Affair… it ISN’T about Boris Johnson! Pity, a book about Bojo would surely sell well.  In fact it is …

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Witchfinder on special deal

Glad tidings of great joy….  Witchfinder is an Amazon Kindle promotion/offer for 0.99 pence. That’s 0.99 pence! People have said some nice things about the book… Personally, I can’t recommend …

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Witchfinder Paperback September 17th.

Very excited about the jacket for the paperback. My editor, Nick Sayers, and the design team at Hodder have done a great job. Eye catching, I think. It will need …

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Witchfinder Audio on offer

There are a few (very few) up sides to corona lock down UK …. Witchfinder seems to be reaching an audience on Audible. It’s on offer at the moment, which …

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‘Witchfinder’ a T.L.S. book of 2019

The poet Sean O’Brien has made ‘Witchfinder’ one of his books of 2019 in the Times Literary Supplement. Nice little boost before Christmas! He writes: ‘In 2019 two novels of …

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