I’m excited to reveal the cover for HOTEL FLAMINGO 5!
I’ve wanted to write a new Hotel Flamingo title for ages. It continues to sell well (I learned last week that the series has sold over 440,000 copies in the UK including audio and digital, which is mind-bogglingly brilliant,) and find new readers six years on, so I think my publisher finally felt it was a good time to go back on holiday to Animal Boulevard!
Needless to say, writing about all the animals at the hotel was like hanging out with all my old friends. It was joyful. I’d write another four in a heartbeat.
Frosty Fiesta!
This new story is all about Mrs Turpington (remember the tortoise from book one?) holding a little party before going into hibernation. FUN FACT: this was the book I was supposed to write for the fourth in the series but schedules drifted and, suddenly, a winter book publishing in Spring didn’t feel like a great idea.
I love snow and I love snow sports, so there’s a whole snowboarding and skiing competition taking place at the hotel, and there’s a very fun, very chilled out pair of board bunnies taking part – one of them is there on the cover!
It’s already up for pre-order on Amazon and at Waterstones, and as soon as I find a local bookshop to help out I can maybe organise sales of signed copies through them!
I can’t wait!
We discovered your hotel flamingo series when we discovered ‘Yoto’ 1.5 years ago. My 8 year old daughter loves it. It is her bedtime story. She only listens to 1of the 4 before bed for the last 1.5 years. Your stories have made bedtime so much easier in our house.
She is so excited that we stumbled upon the fact you have a new one coming out.
Thank you for writing an amazing series!