In 2017, I wrote a murder mystery musical featuring an appalling school that replaced words, in pupils’ reports, with coloured bands no one understood. Today, OFSTED…announces its new coloured bands system!
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Bestselling crime writer Coach for writers (dreamauthorcoaching.com) Host of ‘How to Hold a Grudge’ podcast
In 2017, I wrote a murder mystery musical featuring an appalling school that replaced words, in pupils’ reports, with coloured bands no one understood. Today, OFSTED…announces its new coloured bands system!
10.11.2025 17:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Friends! Next year it will 20 years since Little Face, my first Simon & Charlie thriller. Also, the latest S & C mystery, The Opposite of Murder, is publishing late Jan, so…if you’re a bookshop/library/event planner and might want an event late Jan/early Feb, message me!
05.11.2025 11:25 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Cheap tiny children!!!
By which I mean, my thriller Haven’t They Grown is currently only 99p on UK Kindle!!
Twelve years ago, Thomas and Emily Braid were 5 and 3 years old.
Today, they look exactly the same. Why haven’t they grown?
www.amazon.co.uk/Havent-They-...
Thrilled to be appearing at the Bloody Barnes Crime Festival on Saturday 8 Feb next year!
03.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0PS - who already knows what their New Year’s Resolution is going to be for next year? Tell me if you want to, and I’ll share mine later today!
23.10.2025 07:06 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Published today! The Last Death of the Year, and my last book release of the year! Available from all good bookshops (and there’s no such thing as a bad one) and libraries!
Set on New Year’s Eve on a Greek Island!
A New Year’s Resolution game turns murderous…
And yes, that is indeed the beautiful paperback cover of Lamberts - isn’t it ace?
14.10.2025 10:28 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Amazing bargain opportunity - a stonking 25% off Lamberts paperback at Waterstones if you preorder before 17 Oct!
www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...
Bound proofs are *in*!!
New Simon & Charlie - out in Jan, pre-orderable now.
Who wants a copy? I might do a competition soon!
…to kill John, so Isabella would be available again but she leapt in front of bullet and died instead cos she adored John. And that’s why narrator hates John so much!
20.09.2025 08:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Right, so…the narrator Rose & Yew Tree says in final para something like ‘I saw it all…’ re Isabella getting shot. My theory is: he literally saw it all. He was there, in same place… Why? I reckon he followed John and Isabella on their travels abroad, cos obsessed with her. He paid someone…
20.09.2025 08:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0You’re v welcome! Will explain re The Rose and The Yew Tree soon, when I have more time!
15.09.2025 11:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Finished copies!!! Aren’t they stunning?
05.09.2025 12:14 — 👍 51 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 1Thank you!
21.08.2025 19:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just listened this @honestauthors.bsky.social episode featuring @sophiehannah.bsky.social - such an insightful listen for an aspiring author! Highly recommend for anyone in the #writingcommunity
21.08.2025 13:12 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The hugely talented @authorbarbara.bsky.social (@starinthedark57 on Instagram) has created two stunning copies of Lamberts with little Champ Lamberts painted all over their edges!!
One will definitely be a future competition prize!
There are just six tickets remaining for our opening talk of the Literary Festival featuring @sophiehannah.bsky.social and Lucy Foley. They will be chatting about continuing the characters of Poirot and Marple.
www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...
Champ Lambert is delighted to announce that he (along with his family who do things no one else would do) is at no. 15 in the UK Amazon Kindle Chart!! He is so thrilled, and asked me to let you all know that his powerful story of fighting injustice is still only 99p in ebook format!
08.08.2025 06:29 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Ongoing bargain alert! The Scotsman newspaper recently described Lamberts as ‘a joy’ that ‘demands to be reread’. And it’s still available on UK Kindle for only 99p!
05.08.2025 07:03 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Currently only 99 p on UK Kindle!
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DKTQ1PBL
New Poirot bound proofs are in!!
Publishing Oct 24, pre-orderable now!
Writers with big dreams!! I’m doing an online mini-course called:
How to Write a Life-Changing Book
Link below. Just turn up! This session is free! Find out what I mean by ‘life-changing’!
7 pm, Weds 30 July
us02web.zoom.us/j/84717010871?…
Passcode: 260288
Chuffed to bits to see this ace review of #TheLamberts in The Scotsman:
www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
Sorry you’ve had to wait so long. Champ Lambert (the dog in the story) says: ‘Hang in there! It’s worth it!’
18.07.2025 16:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0She’s fab!
16.07.2025 17:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In which I reveal *all* the goss about my bookshelves and what they contain, in a ‘Sunday Shelfie’ interview with Anna Wharton:
annawharton.substack.com/p/sunday
Proofs of American #TheLamberts have landed and could not look more stunning! If there’s such a thing as a perfect book cover, then as far as concerned, this is it! @readlandmark.bsky.social
14.07.2025 13:44 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Champ Lambert is delighted to announce that the winner of #TheLamberts competition is….
Charlotte Berger 🍾 🍾 🍾
And every single entrant will get an email before Monday, about their free gift, my forthcoming ‘How to Write a Life-Changing Book’ mini course!
Still time to enter!!
10.07.2025 18:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1And…again, for American readers, ‘No One Would Do What The Lamberts Have Done’ is *also* preorderable for 25% off at Barnes and Noble from now until Friday!
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