Advance Copies
A picture of VOX is worth a thousand words
Or maybe 100. Or maybe a million. This is what VOX looked like at Book Expo America:
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VOX chosen as an Amazon Book Review summer pick!
Ecstatic to see all the love for VOX in these last couple of months before it hits the stores on 21 August. Sometimes I have a hard time believing this is actually my book! Thank you to The Amazon Book Review for choosing it as one of 15 Highly Anticipated Read more…
Publications
VOX a Pick in The Times’ Summer Guide!
Thank goodness for alert Twitterary friends and hard-working publishers, otherwise most of these mentions would sail far below my radar. Very proud to see VOX included in Style’s Guide to Summer over at The Sunday Times (that other Sunday Times). I’m in stellar company, too. Other mentions include: The Wives Read more…
Author Appearances
VOX celebrates her birthday at Prince Books this August
The date is set! On 21 August 2018, I’ll be at the wonderful Prince Books shop in downton Norfolk (the other Norfolk, for my Brit friends!) talking and reading and signing. So very happy that my book birthday party will happen in this amazing city. Click over on the link Read more…
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Guess who’s in Vanity Fair?
Vanity Fair just announced thirteen books for their Summer Reading: This Season’s Ultimate Fiction List, and I couldn’t be more pleased and surprised to see VOX mentioned! The other super-cool titles are: Red, White, Blue by Lea Carpenter Kudos by Rachel Cusk The Shades by Evgenia Citkowitz The President is Read more…
Covers
VOX Cover Reveal in the UK!
Thanks to the amazingly talented artists at HQ HarperCollinsUK, VOX has a whole new look. Really delighted to share this gorgeous cover with you! As usual, clicking over on the image will get you somewhere else.
Feature Articles
Interview in The Bookseller!
I’ve a new appreciation for reporters and interviewers, having had lovely chats with a few of them recently. Scary? Yes, a little. But when they do it right and arrange your words on the page, that fear really does go away. For some insight into what I was thinking when Read more…
Publications
Who loved VOX? Lee Child!
Over the moon to see that Lee Child, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Jack Reacher series, not only read my novel, but offered this fantastic quote. I’d write more, but I’m heading to a comfy chair to curl up with one of Child’s books right now.
Dystopian Fiction
VOX gets nine stars in Starburst Magazine!
I always hear about these things after everyone else, sort of like opening your Christmas prezzies on Boxing Day. No matter — a present is a present is a present. And this one from the UK-based sci-fi publication Starburst Magazine made my day. As usual, clicking on the pretty image Read more…
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On language denial…the *other* theme in VOX
I was over the moon when one of my publishers, HQ HarperCollinsUK, asked me to write an article on the linguistic elements in VOX, specifically, on the speculative (and very frightening) question of what might happen in future generations. Each time I’m asked about the genesis of the novel, I Read more…