BOOKWORMS AND VILLAINS

 GET READY FOR THE APOCALYPSE! The End Times Cult that arrived at the end of book 10 in The Secondhand Bookworm series of novels set in a quirky English bookshop in Castletown (featuring Nora Jolly, a Catholic Duke, plenty of customers, new faces, old faces, laughs, light romance and plenty of books!), is in crisis! After makings its (hilariously outrageous) presence known throughout the Winterland Festival (curses, predictions, doom and gloom and a worrying event looming on the bookshop's horizon) - the End Times Cult has disbanded. Nora and Georgina have arrived at the compound to buy the library of outlandish books for The Secondhand Bookworm, but this may well mark the descent into their very own Apocalypse. The Duke of Cole's brother is having a crisis, there are many new establishment now open in the town, too much weight is being added to the already creaking bookshop floors, the local Ghost Hunt Tour has employed the Grim Reaper, Georgina's purchased a library of Gh...

FANCY SOEMTHING NEW TO READ? LOVE BOOKS? LOVE BOOKSHOPS? EVER FANCIED WORKING IN A BOOKSHOP? WINTERLAND AT THE SECONDHAND BOOKWORM I am really pleased to be able to bring Book 11 in The Secondhand Bookworm series to share on Kindle, KindleUnlimited and Amazon with all bookshop lovers soon. It was great fun to write and is a good read if I say so myself - right up your street if you enjoy rickety old shops, sprawling old castles, rivalries, romances, intrigue, a book with a curse, hidden cyphers, duels and fist-fights, quirky English humour, secret maps and snowy festivals all set around a bookshop. If you haven't already, why not give The Secondhand Bookworm series a go and get a head start on the story as the characters and themes develop over the whole series? Each novel spends a week (or 6 as in the case of book 7) in The Secondhand Bookworm; a higgledy-piggledy bookshop with three floors, a winding staircase spiralling all the way to the attic (and a room filled with paperback ...

  ASNIPPET FROM WINTERLAND AT THE SECONDHAND BOOKWORM Books, customers, sabotage, rivalry, romance, friendship, intrigue, humour. My series of enjoyable novels set in an English bookshop continues. I have almost finished reading through my finished book - Book 11 in The Secondhand Bookworm - a series of novels set in an eccentric English bookshop. It is called 'Winterland at The Secondhand Bookworm'. I would like to share with you a snippet from chapter four as I read along.  The scene takes place in the front room of The Secondhand Bookworm. Nora, who is the main protagonist and who runs the bookshop, is working with Betty, the eldest member of staff (very sensitive about her age). Along comes a regular customer, a local author and Betty's rival. COMING SOON TO AMAZON KINDLE AND PAPERBACK SNIPPET FROM CHAPTER FOUR: Betty curled her lip. “Hello, Mr Fink.” He stood and wiped snow off the top of his shopper, brushing it everywhere, so that it settled on books displayed in lit...

 This month I started writing (and bringing together various notes and already written passages) book eleven in my bookshop series of novels set in The Secondhand Bookworm.  Book eleven is called: Winterland at The Secondhand Bookworm.  I hope to make the story available soon (as I hope to be able to work on it when possible during my recreation time!) I have to say it's nice being immersed in a fictional winter during this heatwave. Winterland follows on from Strange Things (book 10), set two months later and during a very heavy snowstorm. The Castletown Winterland Festival is underway which includes The Prosecco Festival and The Festival of Hours, the latter taking place in the museum. Nora is working in her bookshop and enjoying the festivities. But things get scary with the arrival of the Duke of Cole's cousin, Sir Robert Knightley. A plot unfolds and thickens based around a cursed book that has been in the Duke's family for centuries. The book is being displayed in T...

 STRANGE THINGS AT THE SECONDHAND BOOKWORM BOOK 10 IN THE BOOKSHOP SERIES NOW AVAILABLE On a normal Monday morning (as normal as it gets in eccentric Castletown) Nora Jolly arrives to work at The Secondhand Bookworm - a rambling old shop with three floors and an attic room stuffed to capacity with books, upon books, upon books, and more books, with a winding staircase spiralling upwards and branching off into numerous rooms, a kitchen and a yard, a ghost under the flagstones, and with shelves, windowsills, nooks and crannies boasting over 27,000 used, some new and many antiquarian tomes - only to be faced with her greatest bookworm ordeal yet!  Erik Lodbrok, an enormous man with Norse blood, a body like Thor the god of Thunder and a frown that scares everyone, especially newcomer Wimsey (an Emo into Screamo), has arrived with a claim upon The Secondhand Bookworm. A ridiculous clause in the sale of the shop six years earlier to Georgina Pickering, Nora's friend and boss, has ma...

I have almost finished writing book 10 in The Secondhand Bookworm series of novels set in an English bookshop. This book is called 'Strange Things at The Secondhand Bookworm'. It has been such fun to write, with strange and weird things occurring in the shop, the arrival of Erik Lodbrok, calls to an abandoned lunatic asylum, government lab and other unusual places, with anything and everything happening in a crazy week of madness, romance, rivalry and fun at the south coast of England's most eccentric bookshop. Slugs, blocked drains, Screamo, stalkers, wicked rumours, the Duke of Cole returning home early (much to Nora's delight), a huge Viking determined to take over The Secondhand Bookworm, a roller derby, Nora's matchmaking, murder hornets and screaming in the walls, an MI5 Agent investigating the bizarre happenings, customers, regulars, new characters, and books, lots and lots of books (plus much more) in this 10th novel in The Secondhand Bookworm series. Coming...

  LOCKDOWN AT THE SECONDHAND BOOKWORM IS HERE I have finally released book 9 in The Secondhand Bookworm series - Lockdown at The Secondhand Bookworm - currently only available on Amazon Kindle and Kindle Unlimited, but paperback coming soon! It only took me three years to finish! But book 10 is well underway and coming soon. Lockdown at The Secondhand Bookworm can be read as a stand alone novel, but is best enjoyed as part of the series, set in an eccentric bookshop on the south coast of England in the fictional town of Castletown in the fictional southern county of Cole. Fiction loosely based on my 10 years managing a bookshop in West Sussex - lots of fun, bookselling related day-to-day happenings, romantic comedy, drama and all things books. Here is the blurb: It's Lockdown at The Secondhand Bookworm, a winding rickety old bookshop with three floors, endless rooms, hallways, shelves, cases, stairs, attic, kitchen and yard bursting at the seams with books upon books upon books, an...