Another Year at Carpenter's Row signing session

Wendy Greene is back in Worthing on Saturday 12 December, when she'll be signing and selling copies of her new novel, Another Year at Carpenter's Row, at Goring Road Carpets. The session runs from 9.30am to midday, so it's a morning thing rather than an evening one.

Another Year at Carpenter's Row is the sequel to her first novel, Malcolm Carpenter Collected People, which came out through Verité in 2021. It's the first of what's likely to be a series of three, so there's more to come after this one. The story is set in Carpenter's Row, a charitable trust community on the south coast held together by one man but kept apart by secrets that range from illegitimacy and piracy to the underworld and murder, with the residents' pasts revealed through The Barn.

Greene has been writing in various forms since she was a child. She started out as a journalist in the 1960s, worked on Family Circle magazine and Pins & Needles, and more recently was features editor at Essentially Worthing and Caring4Sussex magazines. If you're interested in how she got from there to writing novels, this is a good chance to chat with her about it.

This signing follows her book launch on Thursday 26 November at The Ardington Hotel in Steyne Gardens, which starts at 2.30pm. That one costs £6 and includes a cuppa, scone, jam and cream. During the launch, she'll give a short talk about her writing career, read from the new book, and sign and sell copies. If you can't make the launch, the signing session on Saturday 12 December at Goring Road Carpets is your next opportunity to get a copy signed.