Aussie Winners

Congrats to the Aussie winners of the GoodReads book givaway:
Tracey Sweeney
Rupa Bale
Ms Poole|
Claire holderness|
Gisele Wright
Jamie Campbell|
Cynthia Price|
Danielle Morgan|
Vicky Rose|
Desnica Kumar
Karina Almeroth|
Megan Cole|
Alison Hocking|
Amy Noble|
Lucas Cheesman

HarperCollins will post your books – enjoy!

US Book Give Away Winners!

Congratulations to Ivy Hedge, Gary Festa and Nikki Hunsake for winning copies of Antidote To Murder through the Goodreads site. Your books have been posted to you by my publisher. You were the lucky three drawn from 392 requests!

Aussie readers have only ONE MORE DAY to enter the draw: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/52396-antidote-to-murder

Good luck!

The Curse of the Druids

Home again. I won’t dwell on the good times because the bad are far more interesting, and hey, I’m a writer. The highlight was definitely the noro virus that cunningly swept through our ranks ensuring there was never a moment when all six of us were well at the same time. On one occasion, after having staggered around Stonehenge, we returned to the hire car to discover it wouldn’t start. It turned out that Mick, weak from vomiting all night, had filled the diesel engine with unleaded fuel.

The tow truck took hours to arrive. My daughter and I lay in the middle of a sheep field, longing for an easeful death. Fortunately the baby – that vector of disease who had given us the bug in the first place – was feeling much better now. He played happily next to our prone bodies and munched on dried sheep poo.

The moral of the story? A curse on he who does not give Stonehenge the attention and veneration it demands. Not long after that we were struck down by the flu…

London Science Museum

Saw so many fascinating things the other day at the science museum that I’m going to devote a page to antique medical instruments, procedures etc. Click Medical Matters on the left-hand side menu but enter at own risk – this page will not be suitable for the squeamish.