I’m much looking forward to discussing A War of Flowers, Clara Vine, writing and Germany in the 1930s at the Literati evening at the Grosvenor House Hotel. Canapes, questions, and drinks. Email literati@marriotthotels.co
The website Country Wives has a lovely review of The Winter Garden this week and the best bit of it is the video log filmed by the lovely Annabel under the heading Windswept in Waterstones. Though in fact they look immaculate… cut and paste the link to see it!
http://www.countrywives.co.uk/winter-garden-jane-thynne/
The Winter Garden has been chosen as CBS drama’s Book of the Month, so they interviewed me about my writing habits and whether I preferred novel writing to journalism (can’t believe they asked that!) Find the link here. http://www.cbsdrama.tv/uk/articles.php?feature=398
Martin Amis recently made some comments about how he imagined Hitler’s sex life to be. Having spent a lot of time researching Eva Braun for A War of Flowers, I thought I’d pitch in. Here’s the link to the piece I wrote for The Telegraph…
I’ve just received the new cover for A War of Flowers. Thank you Simon & Schuster, I love the look….
In my new novel, A War of Flowers, Clara is given perhaps her most difficult task to date. She must befriend Eva Braun, Hitler’s girlfriend, in the hope of gleaning any insights into the mind of the dictator. Eva Braun is perennially interesting, and I wrote a piece in The Telegraph responding to Martin Amis’s speculation about their sex life. The link is here…..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11165627/Adolf-Hitler-sex-life-Eva-Braun.html
It was very exciting to find, after an Amazon promotion, that Black Roses became a number one Kindle bestseller in the historical fiction chart, and number five overall! Many thanks to everyone who tweeted the link and I hope those who bought the book will enjoy it.
Here are some of the events this Autumn where I’ll be talking. It would be great to meet readers and chat!
Saturday September 13th: Chiswick Book Festival
Friday September 26th: Kennaway House Sidmouth
Sunday September 28th: Soho Literary Festival
Tuesday September 30th: Henley Literary Festival
Sunday October 5th: Wimbledon Book Fest
Friday October 17th: Guildford Festival
Saturday October 18th: Isle of Wight literary festival
Thursday November 20th: Yorkshire Post literary lunch
I think my publishers, Simon & Schuster, have excelled themselves with the jacket for the paperback of The Winter Garden. It seems to breathe glamour, and hits just the note I was hoping for with my Clara Vine series. Also, I love the inscrutable look on the girl’s face as she gazes beyond the camera….
Here’s the jacket of the new Clara Vine novel, out in February! It’s 1937, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are in Berlin for their honeymoon. The Mitford sisters are in town too, as a season of partying begins to woo the former English king. Meanwhile, in one of Himmler’s new Bride Schools, established to train wives for the SS, a young woman is found murdered. Clara, who knew the girl, discovers that her murder is linked to a far more ominous secret. But in her attempts to uncover the truth, she finds herself in greater danger than ever before.