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Bitter Orange Giveaway on Goodreads

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Goodreads is running a Giveaway for 100 ebooks of Bitter Orange for U.S. readers!

Follow this link and click on the Enter button: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/424883-bitter-orange-a-novel

The Giveaway closes on 4th February.

In 1969 Frances Jellico arrives at Lyntons, a dilapidated English country house, to survey the follies in the garden. There, she meets Cara and Peter, and when she is in her bathroom in the attics of the house she finds a hole in her bathroom floor and she cannot resist spying on her new friends in their bathroom below. Frances has a story to tell, as does Cara, but you can’t believe everything either woman says.

Instagram Giveaway for a UK proof of Hunger and Thirst

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Over on Instagram, I’m running a Giveaway for a signed UK proof of my next novel, Hunger and Thirst, which will be published in May.

Hunger and Thirst is about Ursula, a reclusive sculptor, who in 1987 when she is 16 meets wild-child, Sue. Sue dares Ursula to kill someone and when she actually does, Ursula is haunted for the rest of her life.

The Giveaway closes at midnight 17th January 2026.

Enter here

Join the International Instagram Giveaway for One Ukrainian Summer and The Memory of Animals

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I’m hosting a Giveaway on Instagram for a signed copy of Viv Groskop’s memoir, One Ukrainian Summer, and a signed copy of the paperback of The Memory of Animals. To enter visit my Instagram account: www.instagram.com/writerclairefuller, find my post with this image and follow the instructions.

The Giveaway is open to everyone no matter where you live, and closes on 21st July.

I’ve just finished reading One Ukrainian Summer and I loved it! It’s an account of a year in the 1990s when Viv travelled to Russia as part of her university degree. Age twenty, she works in St. Petersburg teaching English, and falls in love with a Ukrainian rock star. Things are not as she expects when she travels to his home in Ukraine to see him on stage. It’s funny and sweet, and so interesting to read about Russia just after it stopped being the USSR.

Enter the Giveaway.

The Memory of Animals, a novel about love and survival is published in paperback in the UK

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The Memory of Animals is published in paperback in the UK today, 4th July. There might be other things on people’s minds on the day of the general election, but I’m delighted to see this novel about love, survival and octopuses out in the world. I’ve heard from my editor at Fig Tree Penguin that lots of copies have gone out to Waterstones, and independent bookshops, and of course there are plenty of places online to buy a copy.

Click here to buy a copy from Bookshop.org

Newsletter giveaway
I’ll be running a giveaway for a signed copy to a UK-based reader on my newsletter. So sign up here.

Instagram collaborations
I’m very excited to be collaborating with four fantastic authors over the next four weeks on Instagram to giveaway copies of their novels and The Memory of Animals. I’ll be starting next week with Sarah Freethy, the author of the fabulous The Porcelain Maker, and culminating in a very exciting giveaway in conjunction with my publisher. So do follow me on Instagram.

Book club visits
If your book club would like to read The Memory of Animals (lots of meaty themes and issues to discuss) I’d be delighted to visit your group when you meet to discuss it, either in person if you’re in Hampshire, or online. All I ask in return is a donation (of any amount) to Read Easy Winchester – an organisation that helps adults learn to read. Drop me a line to discuss further.

Book club questions and signed bookplates
If you would like book club questions for The Memory of Animals (or any of my previous novels), or signed bookplates, please get in touch. No charge, but I would appreciate a small donation to Read Easy Winchester.

Event in Wendover, Buckinghamshire
I’m delighted to be celebrating the publication of the paperback with an event at Real Magic Books in Wendover, Buckinghamshire on 9th July. Tickets and more information here.

Bitter Orange paperback published

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Bitter Orange is published in paperback in the UK today. I love seeing that little penguin in the top right-hand corner.

To celebrate, I’m giving away a few signed copies. You can enter one or all of these:

  1. I’ll be giving away a signed copy to a UK-based subscriber of my newsletter. Sign up here.
  2. Another signed copy will go to anyone who follows me on Twitter and retweets my pinned tweet. Visit my Twitter feed here, or @ClaireFuller2
  3. Two signed copies will go to anyone who follows me on Instagram, and tags a bookish friend or two in the comments of my latest post. Find me @WriterClaireFuller

I can only post to UK addresses. All competitions close on Sunday 12th May.

Good luck!

 

Bitter Orange Published in USA and Canada

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Bitter Orange is published today (October 9) in the USA and Canada. And to celebrate I’m giving away one set of all three of my novels: Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, and a hardback copy of Bitter Orange (with its US cover).

To enter, just visit Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, and follow the instructions there. The competition is open worldwide.

The Canadian cover, from House of Anansi, is almost the same as the UK version.

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Early US reviews have been great:

Kirkus (starred review)
“In the vein of Shirley Jackson’s bone-chilling The Haunting of Hill House, Fuller’s disturbing novel will entrap readers in its twisty narrative, leaving them to reckon with what is real and what is unreal. An intoxicating, unsettling masterpiece.”

Entertainment Weekly
“In her new novel, Claire Fuller enhances the mystery with luscious detail: sights of ghosts, smells of overripe fruit, echoes of Cara wailing. The plot’s movements are rendered secondary, at least in the early going, to the atmosphere, and it’s to the novel’s benefit; with sensations so alive on the page, you’re constantly kept on your toes, attuned to the mania. You’ll ask, beguiled: What’s really going on here?”

Buy Bitter Orange.

Giveaways, Reviews and Mentions

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Goodreads giveaway

Our Endless Numbered Days will be published this year. It’s been a long wait (over 18 months from when the novel was sold to Penguin in the UK). It will be released by Tin House in the US on 17th March, and to celebrate they’ve arranged a Goodreads giveaway. There are 10 free books available to US readers. Just enter your details here before 7th January for a chance of winning.

The beginning of a new year often brings with it those lists of ‘what books to look out for in 2015’, and I’m pleased to say that Our Endless Numbered Days featured in a few of them:

Isabel Costello’s Literary Sofa: Fiction Hot Picks 2015. This is a wonderful blog about reading and writing. She selected 13 novels due to be released shortly, and read many more.

Naomi Frisby’s Writes of Women: Ones to Read in 2015. A blog dedicated to writing by and about women writers; another blog well worth following. Naomi chose 16 books that have gone straight on my ‘to be read’ pile.

Huffington Post: Best Debut Fiction Coming in 2015. Hannah Beckerman selected 20 debuts coming in the first half of 2015.

The Guardian: The Most Eagerly Awaited Fiction 2015. A brief mention for Our Endless Numbered Days in a UK national paper.

The Readers: Books to Look Forward to in Spring and Summer 2015. If you prefer to listen to book recommendations this book-based banter podcast is great. Simon and Gavin list thirteen books each that they’re looking forward to in 2015.

The Globe and Mail (A Canadian newspaper): The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2015 (the first half anyway).

The Chicago Tribune: 2015 Book Preview – the Future in Reading. Our Endless Numbered Days is listed with three others under the section, ‘Future Tense: Stories of Mystery, Horror and Suspense’.

Bella’s Bookshelves: Our Endless Numbered Days. A review from an early reader from Canada. “The atmosphere, the setting, the details…everything was so palpable that it feels like memory.”

And finally, in KIRKUS reviews an early review: “Fuller’s compelling coming-of-age story, narrated from the perspective of Peggy’s return to civilization, is delivered in translucent prose.”

So, don’t forget if you’re based in the US and would like a chance to get a free copy of Our Endless Numbered Days, don’t forget to go to Goodreads and click ‘enter to win’.