Emlyn Rees

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Shabby: The Jolly Good British to Stress-free Living

Shabby: The Jolly Good British to Stress-free Living

Shabby – because there is no word for Hygge in English. We all know Shabby when we see it. It’s that welcoming pair of pants drying on the radiator. That half-mouldy, but perfectly gin-and-tonic-worthy lemon on display in the fruit bowl. That tin of plum tomatoes in the cupboard with a sell-by date of 1983. It’s never dusting higher than your tallest friend’s line of sight. But Shabby is more…

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All the best trilogies come in fours...

All the best trilogies come in fours…

We’ve just launched Parody Central. Please do go check it out – for all your parody needs! And you can also find out more about ‘Twas the Fight Before Christmas, our latest parody for this Christmas…

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Beach Hut Writing Academy Conference

Beach Hut Writing Academy Conference

Really looking forward to this on March 12th. It’s a full-day conference for new & experienced writers, run by the Beach Hut Writing Academy Conference and taking place in the gorgeous Brighton sea front Angel House. There’ll be plenty going on, including workshops and lunch with bestselling authors, screenwriters, agents and editors, all sharing their insider secrets. The conference is currently…

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Happy Christmas, Folks! Postcard

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Guess Who's In Need of a Digital Detox?

Guess Who’s In Need of a Digital Detox?

From Monday September 25th, I will be mostly digitally detoxing, meaning I’ll be offline from through until the publication of Switch It Off! – our paper smartphone, that’s actually an activity book shaped like a phone. Maybe it’s something you might like to try yourself. You can check out what the book’s about here. Or you can visit Swoffler.com, the online community for offline activities &…

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Near Hertford? We’re at Hertford Kids’ Fest on Sunday 4th Oct. Looking forward to appearing at the brilliant Hertford Children's Book Festival for our event there on…

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Cover reveal: The Teenager Who Came to Tea. https://wordpress.com/post/21703780/824

In the wake of We’re Going on a Bar Hunt and The Very Hungover Caterpillar, we’ve written The Teenager Who Came to Tea, once again illustrated by the brilliant Gillian Johnson. Here’s a sneak peek of the cover: And here’s what our lovely publishers, Little, Brown, have to say: “But the teenager didn’t take just one Pringle. He took a selfie of himself pouring a whole tube of them into his mouth,…

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Dive, dive, dive! I'll be talking to @JSLawBooks this Thurs at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, about his new novel Tenacity. Out from @Headlinepg

Dive, dive, dive! I'll be talking to @JSLawBooks this Thurs at Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport about his new novel Tenacity.

Really looking forward to chatting to James about his (truly) brilliant debut thriller, Tenacity, on Thursday 30th July. Here’s the cover: Here’s what it’s about: Suicide must be investigated. Especially when a Royal Navy sailor kills himself on a nuclear submarine, only days after his wife’s brutal murder. Now Lieutenant Danielle Lewis, the Navy’s finest Special Branch investigator, must…

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2 Great Debut Thrillers for Summer - J.S.Law & Saul Black

2 Great Debut Thrillers for Summer

Tenacity by J. S. Law Verdict: Author J. S. Law has worked on helicopters, ships and towards the end of his naval career, submarines. He now works providing nuclear training and education to the defence and civil sectors. Tenacity is his debut novel and the first in the Lieutenant Danielle Lewis series. A brilliant debut thriller. Breathlessly plotted. The perfect book to dive into this summer.…

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The Very Hungover Caterpillar gets the Zoella treatment… Here's Zoella giving her best pal a copy of The Very Hungover Caterpillar for Christmas... Right on the five minute mark...

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The Very Hungover Caterpillar is published this week!

Follow the quest of one man as he attempts to shake off his hangover, through eating whatever he can get his hands on, and annoying his family in the process.

Possibly the perfect book for anyone who fondly remembers the original, but has now grown up and knows all too well just how painful hungover days can be . . .

Out from November 6th!

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New Review for Wanted

“Shankin is a great main character – he has a good side keeping him from being a cold-blooded killer, but a keen sense of survival means he is willing to break the law and kill those that threaten him. The plot takes Shanklin across the world and introduces a number of other characters. Whilst sometimes a large number of characters and names can confuse and results with the plot becoming diluted,…

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Bookmachine Event in Brighton on 6th November - with mince pies and drink!

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Finished copies of The Very Hungover Caterpillar arrive!

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The Very Hungover Caterpillar cover reveal!

The Very Hungover Caterpillar cover reveal #bookparody

Some of you may remember that last year Constable & Robinson published We’re Going on a Bar Hunt, a parody of Michael Rosen & Helen Oxenbury’s much loved children’s classic.

Newspapers like The Guardian and Telegraph and sites like Huffington Post were kind enough to say things like “hilarious”, “naughty”, “fabulous” and “very funny”.

My writing partner (and wife) Josie Lloyd and I had a tonne of…

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US paperback copies of Wanted now on sale...

US paperback copies of Wanted now on sale…

Danny Shanklin is the world’s most wanted man.

Hunted by nine international intelligence agencies for a terrorist atrocity he did not commit, he’s now trapped in a deadly race against the clock to protect his life, his family, and the world from the people responsible—people intent on true destruction. For though they framed him, these terrorists are really after a much bigger target: six lethal…

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‘Perfect Skin’ by Lloyd Cole and The Commotions Ah, ultimate summer tune...