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Unsettled Ground is one of four books in the Novel category, the winner of which will be announced on 4th January 2022. One of the winners from these categories is selected as the overall Costa Book of the Year. This prestigious annual prize, which is fifty years old this year, awards prizes for books written by UK and Irish authors, in five categories: Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book. I’m thrilled to let you know that my fourth novel, Unsettled Ground has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards. Unsettled Ground Shortlisted for Costa Book Awards

They are £3.00 each (including a glass of wine) and are available either by emailing or by dropping into the High Street shop.

There are limited tickets to keep numbers low, so if you’d like to come, please do get yours soon. On 13th January I’ll be celebrating the publication of the UK paperback of Unsettled Ground at Waterstones in Winchester. The overall winner will be announced on 1st February. Unsettled Ground will now go forward for the Costa Book of the year where it will be judged against the other category winners: biography, first novel, children’s, and poetry. More information about the awards can be found here. It means a huge amount that Jeanie’s and Julius’s story will be more widely read, and it’s simply a wonderful privilege for the book to be chosen from so many entered and of course the brilliant shortlist. I’m so delighted and amazed that Unsettled Ground has won the Costa Novel Award 2021. Happy reading! Unsettled Ground Wins Costa Novel Award And I can send you some book club questions to help get the discussion started!

Just send me a message with information about your book club and I’ll get some in the post. Read Easy Winchester is a my local branch of Read Easy, a national charity which helps adults learn to read – very relevant to one of the themes in Unsettled Ground. I’ll send them for free to a bookshop or if you’re in a book club with friends, for a donation (of whatever you can afford) to Read Easy Winchester. And if you do decide to read Unsettled Ground in your book club, I’d be delighted to send you some signed bookplates and postcards. There are lots of controversial characters, themes and plot elements that result in a lively discussion – or so I’ve been told. Are you in a book club? Either one with friends or one associated with a book shop? If you are (and you’re in the UK), and you’re looking for a great book club read, you might want to consider Unsettled Ground.