Halloween at The Secondhand Bookworm - fun, feel-good, amusing novel, book 5 in the series - coming soon to Amazon Kindle

I have started writing the fifth book in my 'The Secondhand Bookworm' series today which I hope to have completed by the end of October as we draw near to Halloween.
'Halloween at The Secondhand Bookworm' takes place over the usual time frame of a week in the bookshop, but this time its 'Shriek Week' in Castletown, and the first task for Nora Jolly and her work colleague/sister-in-law Cara Jolly is to decorate the front of the bookshop with cobwebs and organize a very spooky window.

'Halloween at The Secondhand Bookworm' promises lots of laughs, chaos, crazy customers, plenty of ghostly/horror literary titles, queries and questions and much more as Nora spends six days in The Secondhand Bookworm in Castletown, goes on a day of calls to buy books from people's houses (including to the House of Coffins), attends a dinner in the town dungeons, takes a ghostly tour, encounters zombie walkers, werewolves and what could well pass for Stephen King's IT (!!) as well as dealing with the usual madness of customers and locals in the eccentric ancient English town in Sussex culminating in the Duke of Sussex's Halloween Ball at his magnificent Sussex castle.


As usual, I shall be drawing upon my memories, experiences  and real events from working for ten years in a secondhand bookshop as well as lots of fun imagination and humour to add to my growing fun-filled, amusing, feel-good series of novels set in The Secondhand Bookworm, available on Amazon Kindle and paperback.

BOOK 5 is COMING SOON to KINDLE.

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