A former winner of our short story competition, Richard Hooton, is to have his debut novel The Margaret Code published on 10th April by Sphere, an imprint of Little Brown. It’s available to pre-order from Amazon or any bookshop.
The voice-led whodunnit follows eighty-nine-year-old Margaret whose failing memory holds the key to the murder investigation taking place on her street. It will also be published in America by Union Square and Co, and in Germany by DTV.
Richard won first prize in our short story competition in 2021 with Regeneration and was also shortlisted in 2022 with Hunger. He is on Facebook, Instagram, X, and Bluesky as @RJHooton. Tel: 07863106396