Bartimaeus 'Lost Chapter' revealed!

Just back from an excellent weekend in Norfolk, where it was (unusually) warm enough to swim in the sea, and definitely nice enough to stroll along beside the quays, watching people crabbing and eating excellent fish and chips straight from the paper.

Now I'm back home, writing hard and enjoying it: 5 pages a day is my current aim. And my mood is made even better because the lovely Ring of Solomon UK paperback is out on Thursday. A large box of them has just been delivered to my door by a weak-legged postman, and they look fantastic.

Anyway, to celebrate, we've got something special planned. On Thursday, 9 a.m. UK time, I'll be posting up a 'lost chapter' from The Ring of Solomon for everyone to see. To start with it'll be exclusively on my Facebook Fan page (http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/JonathanStroudAuthor), but it'll be posted up on this Bart site later.

When writing a Bart book, there are always lots of scenes and sequences that don't make the final cut, and Ring of Solomon was no different. This extract features Bart and Faquarl trying to kill their nasty master, and getting into a little spot of bother over it…

So you can take a look at it from Thursday! Meanwhile, more surprises later in the week…  Stay tuned!