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!

Friends! 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!

Cheap 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!

PS - 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!

Published 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?

Amazing 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!

Finished copies!!! Aren’t they stunning?

Just 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

The 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!

Ongoing 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!

Currently 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...

In 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

Champ 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!!

And…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!

US friends!! Barnes & Noble Rewards and Premium Members get 25% off all pre-orders from 7/8 – 7/11! Premium Members get an additional 10% off! Now’s the perfect time for you to pre-order your copy of The Last Death of the Year with the code PREORDER25! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-last-d...

Read an extract from #TheLamberts here!

South West peeps! I’m doing an event at Brendon Books in Taunton tomorrow night! 7 pm! Come along and hear all about the goss behind #TheLamberts, my new book! Tickets available here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/sele...

NEW EPISODE! Frankie is going walkies with @sophiehannah.bsky.social, author of No One Would Do What The Lamberts Have Done, to discuss having fun with writing, staying true to Poirot & her natural talent for naming dogs. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. linktr.ee/readandburie...

Cambridge people!! My Cambridge book launch for #TheLamberts is tonight!! St Botolph’s church, Trumpington Street, 6.30 pm. Please do come along! There will be wine, gossip and, naturally, there will be Lamberts! bodiesinthebookshop.co.uk/pages/sophie...

Giveaway alert!! Do you love a) dogs, b) gripping and twisty books about dogs, c) delicious iced biscuits about dogs? or d) all three? If you answered d), well done - correct answer. Now head over to my Insta for a chance to win doggy books and bics!

NEWS from Champ Cuthbert Lambert, furriest & most influential member of the Lambert family: some Amazon orders of #TheLamberts are delayed till 25/26 June on account of warehouse issues. This is Champ (played by Chunk) giving the warehouse his ‘Sort it out, pals!’ look!

Thanks so much for this lovely review, Cal!

Vital announcement for those planning to read #TheLamberts imminently!! Sign up for my newsletter (bottom of Home Page sophiehannah.com) to hear all about an ace competition (hint at top prize in second pic!). It’s free to enter and every single entrant gets a free gift!

This is utterly brilliant. I’m going to watch it at least five times in order to make sure I don’t miss a single line of superb dialogue.

News! Extra event added to my #TheLamberts tour: 9 July, afternoon tea, Southwold! More deets soon. Also my next newsletter is imminent & contains an exciting competition with ace prize, plus all entrants get free gift! Sign up to receive, bottom of my website home page.

I’ve added an extra event to my #TheLamberts tour! At Niche Comics Bookshop in Huntingdon on Sunday 22 June at 7 pm! www.ticketsource.co.uk/nichecomicsb... Come along and say hello, Huntingdon peeps!

A most beautiful finished copy has landed! Hurrah!

I’m taking #TheLamberts on tour in June! Tour dates below - please do come along and tell me if you would do what the Lamberts have done…

Here is the American @Sourcebooks cover for #TheLamberts in all its jolly and multicoloured glory!! I love it so much!

Here is the American @Sourcebooks cover for #TheLamberts in all its jolly and multicoloured glory!! I love it so much!

Absolutely breathtakingly blindingly brilliant!! If you’ve read it and remember it v well, message me. Desperate to discuss it!!

@jonathancoe.bsky.social Just finished and absolutely adored The Proof of My Innocence. So brilliant!

Absolutely delighted to reveal, with the help of People.com, the stunning US cover for No One Would Do What The Lamberts Have Done: people.com/sophie-hanna... Publishing in America in 2026!

More exciting prizes are being added to my newsletter competition - sign up to get my author newsletter now as per below. Clue: these prizes will be particularly appealing to writers and/or anyone who wants to write!

Time to clarify something. When authors say “Unbound haven’t paid me” that makes it sound like Unbound had some money, which they used to buy authors’ writing. Unbound had no money. The authors did: we had raised that money. They were holding it in trust. Unbound stole our money.

Very on-brand health supplements!

Thrilled to discover this lovely review of Lamberts!!

Signing and packaging up Lamberts proofs to send to competition winners! Posting them tomorrow! Sign up for my author newsletter (coming next week!) in which an even more exciting competition will be announced! (Sign up at bottom of sophiehannah.com home page)

Huge box of Lamberts proofs has landed, and I’m in a jolly mood, so let’s do a competition! I’ll send 10 winners a free, signed, personalised copy. Email [email protected] answering this Q: Why is this ‘the book of my heart’? (Take a guess!)

Our very exciting Opening Event features bestselling authors Lucy Foley and @sophiehannah.bsky.social talking about continuing the iconic characters of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Tickets are selling fast so don't miss out: www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...