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I’m sorry to say my books are currently more or less out of print. It’s all my own fault, natch. In this fast-changing retail world, a book has a shelf life rather shorter – in fact, much shorter – than that of a can of baked beans. And if authors fail to deliver new titles, old ones tend to get put speedily out to grass. Re-issues are promised if and when a new novel is published. Ho-hum. My erratic output thus means my existing oeuvre is more or less wholly out of print at present, save for the odd US or talking book edition. So your only hope is second hand copies offered via Amazon or e-bay – some of them, I warn you, at crazy prices. I’d be pink with pride if I could bring myself to believe that anyone would be mad enough actually to pay forty quid (forty quid!!!) for a battered, ex-library copy of ‘Balancing on Air’, as was drawn to my attention on e-bay t’other day. Mark you, anyone who did would instantly be promoted to the status of My New Best Friend (even if they were clinically bonkers). Otherwise, many libraries remain cheeringly keen to keep me in stock. All titles, bar The Colours of Snow, are available, unabridged, on cassette tapes. But if you prefer to consume books via old-fashioned ink and paper, as I certainly do, then I can only say I’m doing my best to deliver a new novel… With apologies, Kate |