Beauty Secrets of the Martyrs – my peculiar little novella of magic, makeup, crypts, and clownfish – goes out into the world today. Thank you to everyone who’s already pre-ordered the paperback. Help yourself to cake.

Lenin cake. It’s what he would have wanted.

Get Beauty Secrets from Amazon, Heffers, Foyles, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble, or ask your local bookseller to order it in. (Ebook formats will follow shortly.)

Silvan, at home in Dubrovnik

While you’re waiting, have a peep inside the cover…