Just over a month now until the Italian and UK publication of Expo 58. I’ve been busy with my webmistress updating this website over the last few days, and before long we should have a page for the new book, along with new pages for my children’s books The Story of Gulliver (which will be published in the UK by Pushkin Press in October) and The Broken Mirror.

As if that weren’t enough, there will be yet another publication in December, when Penguin will be issuing an ebook called Marginal Notes, Doubtful Statements, which is an anthology of my journalism and non-fiction from the last twenty years.

All this flurry of activity requires me, of course, to abandon my life as a literary hermit and - for a few weeks at least - emerge blinking and squinting into the sunlight, so that I can talk to readers at a number of public events which are listed on the news page. In fact I’m really looking forward to these, especially my visits to Sarzana and Birmingham and, best of all, the launching of the Dutch and UK editions of Expo 58 at the Atomium in Brussels in October.

Wherever you are in the next few months - Italy, Belgium or Britain - please come along to meet me and get your books signed! (Or perhaps not , as I’ve a feeling it’s going to be the unsigned copies of Expo 58 which will be the collectors’ items in years to come …)