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Last week The Crossing Places was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award at this year?s Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards. This follows her shortlisting for the Theakston's Old Peculiar Award in the UK in 2010. Meanwhile, The House at Sea's End, the much anticipated third title in Elly?s Ruth Galloway series, has been published this month by Quercus and is already following in the success of its predecessors.

?The Self-help Book to End All Self-help Books?? - The Guardian This month Canongate published a collection of columns from Oliver Burkeman?s highly acclaimed weekly psychology feature for the Guardian This Column Will Change Your Life. Help!: How to Become Slightly Happier, and Get a Bit More Done is a witty and thought-provoking exploration that punctures many of self-help?s most popular myths, while also offering clear-headed, practical and often counterintuitive advice on a range of subjects, from stress, procrastination and insomnia to wealth, laughter, time management and creativity. It doesn?t claim to have solved the problem of human happiness. But it might just bring us one step closer. Follow this Amazon link to download the first chapter for FREE! http://www.amazon.co.uk/HELP-Become-Slightly-Happier-More/dp/B004FN1QDS/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=A3TVV12T0I6NSM&qid=1297349038&sr=8-1

Described by the Times as ?A moral work of real intelligence and power? Sunjeev Sahota's debut novel, Ours Are The Streets, is receiving blanket review coverage. The author was the only novelist selected by the Observer in its feature on the six most exciting artistic debuts of 2011. ?Extraordinary. With unnerving control, Sahota casts us into the tormented mind of his narrator, Imtiaz, a second-generation immigrant who marries (and has a child with) an English woman before embracing extremism on a visit to Kashmir. Sahota avoids many of the clich?s of radicalisation - he presents Imtiaz as spurred less by religious conviction than a desperate desire to belong - and the narrative contains many beautiful, well-honed images.? - Will Skidelsky, the Observer