February 10 Kerikeri, New Zealand

February 1-6  Taiwan (Taipei Book Festival and book launch)

February 10-19 Saint Amour tour (Brussels, Belgium)

April book launches in Germany (April 16-18), Italy, Denmark

April/May US tour for Dirt, a new novel, pub date April 24

April 21-22 Los Angeles Times Book Festival

April 26  Booksmith, San Francisco, CA

April 30 Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA

May 1  Moe’s, Berkeley, CA

May 2 Books Inc., Palo Alto, CA

May 23  Zagreb, Croatia

May 25  Brest, France

May 26-28 Etonnants Voyageurs, Saint-Malo (France), May 2012

May 29-June 3  Lillehammer Literature Festival (Norway)

June 4  Oslo, Norway (book launch)

June 6-8  London, launch of Dirt

June 7 Waterstone’s Hampstead, London, 7pm with Julie Myerson

June 9  Hay On Wye festival (Wales)

August 19  Edinburgh International Book Festival (Scotland)

August 23-26  Louisiana Literature Festival (Denmark)

August 29-Sept 3 Melbourne Writers’ Festival (Australia)

September 4 Canberra (National University, Australia)

September 5 Sydney

September 5-10 Brisbane Writer’s Festival (Australia)

September 26 Manchester (England)

October 2 London

October 6 Coventry (Warwick Words festival, 4:30 pm)

October 15 Basel (Switzerland)

October 18  U of Warwick (England)

October 27 London, Story Salon

November 3  Portsmouth, England (Nautical Archaeology Society Annual Conference)

November 16-18  Crossing Border Festival:

November 16  Enschede, Netherlands

November 17  The Hague, Netherlands

November 18  Antwerp, Belgium

November 27  Glasgow, Scotland (Scottish Book Week)

December 4  Manchester (England)

December 5-9 Istanbul (book launch)

December 10-11  Rome

December 11-14  Courmayeur Noir festival (Italy)