I have to issue a word of warning for anyone buying my books on Amazon, either in the UK, the US or Canada. The names of the novels have changed in different territories and I really don’t want people to end up buying a book they’ve already read and then feeling understandably fed up. For clarification, here are the Clara Vine books in chronological order.

Clara Vine #1 Black Roses

Clara Vine #2 The Winter Garden

Clara Vine #3 A War of Flowers (UK) The Scent of Secrets (US and Canada)

Clara Vine #4 Faith and Beauty (UK) The Pursuit of Pearls (US and Canada)

Just for added confusion, the jacket of The Winter Garden is used in the US for The Scent of Secrets.

Please check the blurb carefully to make sure you’re not buying the same novel and my heartfelt apologies if you already have!

I’m so looking forward to visiting Toronto (September 20th-22nd) and New York (September 22nd-25th) for the launch of The Scent of Secrets. I’m thrilled to be meeting the lovely people at Penguin Random House Canada, including my editor Zoe Maslow and all the booksellers and bloggers there. Joanna Coles, editor in chief of Cosmopolitan, is hosting a launch at Hearst in NYC which should be great fun and I’m going to be talking about Clara Vine, Eva Braun and life for women in pre-war Germany. Can’t wait!

Somehow no photograph does it justice – though that goes for most photographs I take – but it’s exciting to be here and even more so to be meeting my new publishers, Ballantine Books, who will publish A Scent of Secrets (US title of A War of Flowers) in September. I’m much looking forward to it…

Wimbledon is a great place to live- beautiful, grassy and (except for two weeks a year), wonderfully peaceful… http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/leisure/latest/11885021.Author_Q_A__Jane_Thynne_on_pre_war_Nazi_Germany_and_what_she_loves_about_living_in_Wimbledon

I had a wonderful evening at the Grosvenor House hotel’s Literati book club – an incredibly engaged and attentive group – and here I am with my superb editor Suzanne Baboneau (far right).

I’ll be spending World Book Night with two wonderful novelists, Jason Hewitt and Ben Fergusson, at the W3 Gallery in Ealing. We’ll discuss the issues of setting a novel in wartime in an event called Re-imagining World War II. If anyone is near Ealing, please come along!

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.com or call +44(0) 20 7399 8009 for more details

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…