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It's a Stella-fuelled Bank Holiday weekend RT comp to celebrate publication of: BLITZ: When WW2 Came Home RT for chance to win signed copy AND Ralph's signed, special-edition copy of TORNADO DOWN! Can't wait? BLITZ is currently HALF PRICE on that well-known website. Link below.

Lots of you lovely people asking about signed copies of BLITZ. You'll be delighted to know that I signed 4000 copies for the wonderful independent bookshops on your local high street. Do consider shopping local if you fancy a copy: linktr.ee/blitzindies @SimonSaysBooks

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We are proud to launch an opportunity that is open exclusively to un-agented, unpublished fiction writers of colour. The winner will receive a two-book publishing contract with Simon & Schuster UK with a six-figure advance.  Find out more here: simonandschuster.co.uk/p/new-chapter

This week’s new fiction: Camilla Barnes feels The Usual Desire to Kill in her perfectly observed debut novel. Kate Lord Brown’s beautiful historical novel, The Golden Hour. Big Chief from Jon Hickey is a gripping account of a fiercely fought native American election. An all-new special edition of Wildfire by Hannah Grace. C.B. Everett’s thrilling The Other People traps ten people in a house and picks them off one by one. Temperance Brennan returns in Fire and Bones by Kathy Reichs. Now in PB: Gabriel Smith’s skin peels off in his debut novel, Brat. We Were Girls Once is a gorgeous story of friendship and sisterhood from Aiwanose Odagen. And Susanna Kearsley brings courtly rivalry and intrigue to The King’s Messenger.

This week’s new non-fiction: How to be a Bad Botanist from Simon Barnes is a *ahem* down to earth introduction to plant life for anyone who’s been outside recently and wishes they could do more than say ‘that’s a daffodil’.

I’m writing a little memoir, kids called, A Mind Of My Own. Eeek! Due to be available at the end of October. The link will lead to presales, signed copies etc. Suppose I’d best get on with it! ♥️📚 #AMindOfMyOwn linktr.ee/KathyBurkeAMin…

Excited to announce that @KathyBurke A MIND OF MY OWN will be out on 23 October! Whether you know her as the beloved Perry, for her award-winning acting, or for being proudly woke and calling out tw*ts on social media, Kathy has always had a mind of her own. Funny and wise, this is her memoir. Pre-order here: linktr.ee/KathyBurkeAMin…

This week’s new non-fiction: @david_sheff’s incredible biography of the one and only Yoko Ono. Drawing on decades of friendship, David tells the true story of a hugely misunderstood cultural icon. @mo_wilde shares the joys of wild food. Where to find it, how to identify it, and how to turn it into some of the best meals you’ll ever have.

This week's new fiction: No. 2 Whitehall Court, a WW1 thriller from veteran spy novelist, Alan Judd. @CazziF’s Five Bad Deeds is a suburban nightmare that’ll have you up all night. Beverley Kendall’s One in a Million, a modern romance with a unique ‘secret baby’ twist. Come in and Shut the Door is the latest from visionary writer, Chris Petit. And @patriciascanl18 brings back the city girls in City Girls Forever.

New non-fiction this week: The Last Bell, a riveting account of modern boxing from @donaldgmcrae. Rick Stroud’s I'm Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles and My Sins Go With Me by Martin Sixsmith - out now in paperback - both tell incredible stories of female resistance during wartime. @royalbiographer looks at the close relationship between King Charles III and his mother in My Mother & I. With Dogs and their Humans, @ProfNoelFitz shares his unique perspective on our relationship with the best animal around (sorry, cat people).

Out now in paperback, @stuartneville mixes thriller with the supernatural in Blood Like Mine. Probably Nothing is the modern romance you dream of from @laurenbravo. Missing White Woman by @kellyekell turns the domestic thriller upside-down. And Corn Bride by @markstay is the witchy, ghostly, hilarious folk-horror wartime romance you never knew you wanted!

New fiction: @millyjohnson's life-affirming Same Time Next Week. A Titanic-survivor starts a new life in @franquinn’s The Lost Passenger. @JoCallaghanKat’s AI detective takes another case in Leave No Trace. And the thrilling, Vertigo-inspired Eye of the Beholder by Emma Bamford.

@WalterIsaacson’s in-depth biography of Elon Musk. The Rebel Rapport from @HelenRappaport tells the incredible story of Juliane-Henriette-Ulrike. @AliceRoberts takes a bunch of bones and unlocks the history of Britain. @LukeSmithF1’s On The Grid is the definitive account of Formula 1. Music PR legend Alan Edwards shares stories across five decades of industry experience in I Was There. The Power of Hormones by Max Nieuwdorp explores how we can live happier, healthier lives.

A murderer inspired by classic fairy tales in the grisly Little Red Death from @ak_benedict. In @jackjordanbooks latest thriller, Redemption, a mother hunts the man who killed her son. We’ve also got the gripping wartime thriller Shanghai by @josephkanon. Deliver Me from Malin Persson Golito is ‘the evolution of Scandinavian crime’. Ian Russel-Hsieh’s hallucinatory literary debut I’m New Here. @MargauxVlln’s Breaststrokes, a tender story of female friendship. And Peyton Corrine's ice hockey-based romance, Unloved.

This week’s new fiction: Nesting, the extraordinary debut novel from @Roisin_ODonnell, Lila Cain’s powerful The Blackbirds of St Giles, Alexandria Warwick’s romantasy epic The North Wind arrives in paperback and @michaelidov’s globetrotting spy thriller, The Collaborators.

Our latest non-fiction: @razeensally’s moving and personal tour of the return to his childhood home of Sri Lanka. And @profbrucehood offers to transform your life as he shares the seven lessons for living well in The Science of Happiness.

Our new fiction: A great week for crime fans as we have Michael Bennett’s thrilling Return to Blood out now in PB, @FrenchNicci’s brilliant The Last Days of Kira Mullan, and @Dr_Jenny_Morris's impressive debut, An Ethical Guide to Murder. @robertcrais returns with the unpredictable The Big Empty.