If it wasn't bad enough that we have to have 2,228 shoved in our faces as comical failure, if reports on the iceberg's advance were accurate, that also means that the book earnt out in its first week, too ... the world is broken.

So, it appears that sales of 2,228 in the first week is the benchmark ... that's quite sobering. Most books don't sell that many in their lifetime. If that wasn't depressing enough already, knowing that you've been outsold by a woman who was once beaten by a lettuce kinda sucks!

Jodhpurs and stirrups, please: it's Country Life!

Thanks to John Sutherland in The Spectator for this on The Book-Makers

The Bodley Head PEW Literary

Ok. Question for the Wordpressers out there ... why does my website suddenly refuse to allow me to update pages?aa

In more news from The Complete Croquet Player (1874), the sport was 'brought over from Ireland ... by a Miss Macnaughten,' who had seen it played 'in its primitive state' by peasants in S. Italy/France. Sadly, 'this poor lady is no more, having been accidentally burnt to death.'

He's at it again! More glimpses into the truths that lie behind the media curtains ...

It is‥unfair to the winner, to tell him that he won only because you ‘had a bad mallet’ - as in croquet, so in life ...

Currenty scouring The Complete Croquet Player (1874). Living the dream.

It's gearing up to be some summer! #Spycraft

That feeling when your publisher tells you that your book looks 'absolutely amazing' ... that's #Spycraft

Grand location for the keynote ⁦⁦⁦⁦Spycrafty⁩ and I gave at an international cryptography conference: Heidelberg Castle! We hope it was the first of many talks on our new book, #Spycraft !

It's raining blossom in Bad Homburg.

Wow! twitter.com/sueclarkauthor…

Word.

Definitely on the tbr list ...

Today, I shall be mostly giving a lecture on cryptology with Professor Nadine Akkerman ... in a German castle. That's #Spycraft !

That feeling when you see who's reviewing your latest book - somewhere between wild flattery and abject terror ... #Spycraft