From Clare Chambers’ tender novel to #TheLifeImpossible by Matt Haig, a sophisticated tale by Tim Parks and Peter May’s latest, this week’s best new fiction – reviews by Tom Payne, Hephzibah Anderson, Anthony Cummins and John Lincoln Williams buff.ly/3Z9EyO9

One of the more incredible looking books to arrive at our house this week was Clare Chambers #ShyCreatures and there’s plenty of love at Waterstones Wells #BookTwitter #booktwt #bookboost #booktok Books Covered #BooksWorthReading #booklovers #BookRecommendations W&N

Thank you! 💙

Had to go out and buy a copy of this gorgeous indie edition. Thank you West End Lane Books (one of Clare Chambers’s biggest supporters) Glorious art and production job W&N (that pin!)

Absolute note perfect. Loved it Clare Chambers

New month, new picks for our #DubrayRecommends... Clare Chambers Matt Haig Harriet Constable Double points for loyalty customers 🎈 dubraybooks.ie/pp/recommended…

Fellow Croydoners - This is at 6.30pm tonight!

We're SO looking forward to tonight's event with Clare Chambers as her new novel, SHY CREATURES, is getting amazing reviews. 😍 Last few tickets remaining, so grab one while you can! tickets.matterpay.com/s/chorleywood-…

🎪We have 3 authors appearing at the Festival who’ve made it into the Top 10 Bestsellers list this month! Tickets are still available – click the 🔗in our bio to book! Robert Harris: Precipice Clare Chambers: Shy Creatures Craig Brown: A Voyage Around The Queen #bestsellers

This magnificent book by ⁦Clare Chambers⁩ has kept me going this week. Highly recommended (along with her backlist!) 📚

‘Whether you're knitting or painting or woodworking or writing… it flows out of you’ ✍️ Bestselling author Tracy Chevalier told anita rani that when she writes, she goes into a creative ‘flow state’ 👀 Have you experienced this? 💭 Listen on @bbcsounds ⬇️

#Croydon people, this is for us Clare Chambers W&N

Really looking forward to talking to Clare Chambers "bard of English suburbia" about her incredibly moving new novel Shy Creatures on Saturday at Hastings Book Festival. Click here for tickets. hastingsbookfest.org/events/clare-c…

I am very excited to be doing an event with ⁦Susan Fletcher⁩ at ⁦Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival⁩ this Friday. Please join us! Shy Creatures and The Night in Question | Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival budlitfest.org.uk/event/clare-ch…

A treat! (#ShyCreatures, not the pastry 😉.) Only four days till Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival where Clare Chambers and I will be discussing the resilience of our characters, the burden of secrets - and much more. Join us! #TheNightInQuestion 🩷💛budlitfest.org.uk/event/clare-ch…

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky; And all I ask is a friendly crowd and a parking space nearby. (And expenses obv.) I'm going to be in Hastings this Saturday. Please come! hastingsbookfest.org/events/clare-c…