Wednesday 8th September 2020

I’ve never been in a chart before and probably never will again, so two entries in one week has me tickled pink. In at number 2 in The Bookseller’s ‘Heatseeker ‘chart for authors who haven’t been in one of their charts before, and in at 56 in the W H Smith paperback chart. Funny things about both of these: George Orwell’s 1984 is also on the ‘Heatseeker’ chart (???); when I asked the manageress of my local WH Smith if she’d like me to sign books she said, ‘maybe if you get to number one.’ That put me in my place.