Hello everyone. We won’t keep you in suspense any longer – we are delighted to announce that Little Hands Clapping is in Heat magazine’s Top 10 for the fourth week running. It has only slipped one place, to number eight, which means – that’s right – that it might even make it to an unprecedented five-week run. We’re going to try not to think about it. Wish us luck.
In other news, great reviews of Little Hands Clapping continue to flood the media. This time it’s The Spectator: “This book will appeal not only to his numerous current fans, but to pretty much anyone who can stomach a bit of gruesome vulgarity in a love story. And that’s meant to be a compliment. The novel is a remarkable success.”
Well there you are. We’ve added a Spectator-related update to the post below…
And if you’ve not read Little Hands Clapping yet, now’s the time – while it’s still out in a glorious hardback at a NoNeedToWaitForThePaperback price.
Rhodes is currently in training for his reading with Alan Bissett at the Aye Write festival in Glasgow on Friday 12th March. Details here. News has reached us that Rhodes is making the ultimate sacrifice for this event – he is missing a Ken Dodd show in his home town the night before, in order to get an early night and be fresh for the train in the morning. This should silence anyone who doubts his commitment to his craft.
That’s all for now, but to pad things out a bit here is a recent photograph of Rhodes’ back garden. Don’t ask us how we got hold of it.
Happy reading.
