Say hello to Hotel Flamingo: Frosty Fiesta!

The fifth book in the series is published this October!

This is one of those months where I have too much to write about, so I’m going to note everything down and bank them for future posts. For now though, and probably most importantly for any Hotel Famingo fans, I want to share the cover for HOTEL FLAMINGO 5!

I’ve wanted to write a new Hotel Flamingo title for ages. It continues to sell well (I learned last week that the series has sold over 440,000 copies in the UK including audio and digital, which is mind-bogglingly brilliant,) and find new readers six years on, so I think my publisher finally felt it was a good time to go back on holiday to Animal Boulevard!

Needless to say, writing about all the animals at the hotel was like hanging out with all my old friends. It was joyful. I’d write another four in a heartbeat.

Frosty Fiesta!

This new story is all about Mrs Turpington (remember the tortoise from book one?) holding a little party before going into hibernation. FUN FACT: this was the book I was supposed to write for the fourth in the series but schedules drifted and, suddenly, a winter book publishing in Spring didn’t feel like a great idea.

I love snow and I love snow sports, so there’s a whole snowboarding and skiing competition taking place at the hotel, and there’s a very fun, very chilled out pair of board bunnies taking part - one of them is there on the cover!

It’s already up for pre-order on Amazon and at Waterstones, and as soon as I find a local bookshop to help out I can maybe organise sales of signed copies through them!

I can’t wait!

NEWS ALERT!!!

A very brief NEWS ALERT… News came out last week about my new series launching in 2026 called CAPTAIN SUNSHINE (which is about to head out to the big children’s book fair in Bologna, and will be a massive poster on the Piccadilly Press stand!)

I want to write about this properly, so I’ll share all the news and artwork from Captain Sunshine next week! A sort of sister title to Hotel Flamingo, I’m already loving illustrating it and spending time in the world.

Honestly, I’m so excited about these new books at the moment, that not even those thieving AI-scraping monsters over at Meta/Facebook can spoil my mood. (Yes, they have scraped most of my copyrighted books without asking…)

So then, til next time.