Summer at The Secondhand Bookworm release on Amazon Kindle, Summer reading, novel.
NEW BOOK RELEASE
HILARIOUS SUMMER READING
'SUMMER AT THE SECONDHAND BOOKWORM'
BOOK 4 IN THE SERIES.
It's finally here, finally complete, finally available on Amazon Kindle (and coming to paperback soon) - Summer at The Secondhand Bookworm.
I had great fun writing this and was able to soak up the realities of a very hot summer combined with all my notes and memories of working in the bookshop during the festival week. I completed the book just as the hot weather broke so have been editing it with the rain pelting down on the attic windows.
I was bemused when The Queen bestowed the title 'Duke of Sussex' upon Prince Harry because I had chosen that title for my Duke in my novels, simply because the novel is set in Sussex I reside in Sussex and it wasn't a title currently in use!
My Duke of Sussex makes another appearance in Summer at The Secondhand Bookworm and Nora and Humphrey are given a tour of his library in chapter five.
Here is the blurb for 'Summer at The Secondhand Bookworm':
It's summer in Castletown and festival week has begun. Nora Jolly works in The Secondhand Bookworm, a rambling three story shop higgledy-piggledy with books, upon books, upon books! This week is full of the bizarre and the hilarious as thousands of tourists arrive to visit the Carpet of Flowers, walk the Art Trail, watch the entertainment in the square, hunt the Castletown treasure, ride the Tuk-Tuk up the hill, take a smuggling walk, have their faces painted, visit the newly built castle and of course, buy some books!
It's sweltering hot so Nora spends her time chasing children eating ice-creams out of the shop while enduring noisy steel bands, out of tune banjo players, Castletown's Got Talent and streams of popping bubbles with new and old customers galore such as Crossword-Lady, the man with the enormous moustache, Spencer and his alien sightings, Harry on his vanity run, Mr Hill and his battered green suitcase, a famous Radio DJ and a woman with a beard. There are flying monkeys, Moomins on stilts, a giant metal spider army, and the Goat Lady's mother-in-law has died so that means a dreaded visit to look at her books with Bill and his scraggly beard lurking in the shadows.
Cara and Nora's brother Seymour have gotten engaged, Roger has become a Buddhist, Troy wants Georgina to elope, Betty has some more scandalous stories, Jason has biked eight miles to work on his racer, and the Duke is sending Nora text messages. There's a staff barbecue down the beach where Percival turns up in his red Speedos and Miss Raven is spotted with a gentleman friend; a summer gathering to watch Shakespeare on the Hill, vintage fire trucks, Penguin book deckchairs, a travelling organ and Nora and Humphrey are given a personal tour of the Duke of Sussex's library much to Humphrey's chagrin.
Abba tributes, a foiled bookshop robbery, wine tasting, a valet named Jeeves, a violent goose, a man who looks like a gnome, a journey to the center of the bookshop, attacking seagulls and Nora being enlisted to hang out an old lady's unmentionables while on a traditional bookshop calls day all make up another hilarious week at The Secondhand Bookworm in book four of this new growing series of fun, feel-good novels!
Here are the chapter titles for 'Summer at The Secondhand Bookworm':
CHAPTER ONE – THE FLYING MONKEYS
CHAPTER TWO – NORA IN OZ
CHAPTER THREE – A CARPET OF FLOWERS AND THE TRAVELLING ORGAN
CHAPTER FOUR – MOOMINSUMMER MADNESS
CHAPTER FIVE – THE DUKE’S LIBRARY
CHAPTER SIX – THE GOAT LADY’S MOTHER-IN-LAW
CHAPTER SEVEN – THE GNOME
CHAPTER NINE – BOOKWORMS AT THE BEACH
CHAPTER TEN – THE ENORMOUS MOUSTACHE
CHAPTER ELEVEN – SAVED BY THE BELL
CHAPTER TWELVE – ‘SWELTERING SATURDAY’
CHAPTER THIRTEEN – SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
This novel is dedicated to Jason Hill, a former work colleague of the bookshops I ran for 10 years, who died in a helicopter accident in the Grand Canyon in February this year (2018). It has been my pleasure to include a character similar to my memories of Jason and to dedicate this fourth novel in memory of the years he worked at the bookshop on weekends and during college holidays.
Summer at The Secondhand Bookworm is just over 60,000 words.
It will be available on paperback through Amazon soon!
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