My marvellous mini Christmas tour!

December 3, 2018

I’m home from a wonderful weekend of events – in three days I visited Kinross, Durham, Carlisle, Harrogate and Leeds!

I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who looked after me, and everyone who came along to meet me. Some of you came from very far away, and lots of you queued for a very long time. It’s incredible to me that you care about my books so deeply – I’m proud to write stories that you love!

Below are some of my favourite photos from the weekend. If you’d like to see more, have a look at my Instagram feed and highlights.

And remember … there’s only ONE more chance to see me in 2018! I’ll be at Waterstones Piccadilly in London on Thursday 6th December from 6pm to sign all of my books. It’s free – and if you can’t make it, just call up the store and ask them to reserve books to be signed by me when I’m there. See you soon, London!

At the Kinross Winter Festival, one fan got into the spirit of the event by wearing her Robin dress and bringing me Daisy’s favourite squashed fly biscuits!

At Waterstones Durham, this wonderful fan brought me a Christmas present!

At Waterstones Carlisle, this Detective Society shared one set of books to make sure that they were all signed!

Happy faces at a wonderful Waterstones Harrogate signing!

I love it when fans bring an entire set of books to get signed – I was very impressed when this fan brought all of her copies out of her bag at Waterstones Leeds!

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