In Conversation with Heide Goody and Iain Grant

Join us at Bedworth Library where we will be chatting with Heide Goody and Iain Grant about their latest Christmas trilogy! This is perfect for the Book Bingo category 'A book perfect for the current season' as we approach the 'most wonderful time of the year'.

Book One: The Festive and the Furious

A BRAND NEW comedy from the best-selling authors of the Clovenhoof books. A festive farce perfect for fans of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Ted Lasso and Diehard.

One month to Christmas. One stressed-out sales manager. One Winter Wonderland that might just descend into chaos.

Charlotte Mitchell is determined to put Hedgelord Garden Centre at the heart of the community where it belongs. All she needs is the perfect festive season—lights, decorations, Santa, and the biggest Christmas display in town. But there’s just one problem: Jack Hartigan, her infuriatingly charming rival from Bloomers Garden Centre, has the same idea.

Christmas is a battlefield, and Charlotte needs to win.

She can handle lazy employees, manic elves, and a herd of out-of-control reindeer. She might even keep her legendary temper under wraps. But when an ill-advised decorating stunt hits the headlines for all the wrong reasons, Charlotte faces her biggest challenge yet.

Will Charlotte win the day? Will the frosty relationship thaw between her and Jack? Can she save herself, save Hedgelord, and also save Christmas?

Book Two: Runaway Santa

Christmas at Hedgelord Garden Centre should be simple—trees, tinsel, and a grotto full of jolly Santas. But when one of those Santas goes rogue and films an incriminating adult movie, with Hedgelord’s grotto as the backdrop, sales manager Charlotte Mitchell finds herself in the middle of a festive disaster.

The only way to save Hedgelord’s reputation is to track down the wayward Santa and secure the footage before it’s released. Unfortunately, she’s not the only one on the case — Jack Hartigan, her infuriatingly charming rival from Bloomers garden centre, is also in pursuit. Worse still, Santa has already fled to Lapland.

With time running out and disaster closing in, Charlotte abandons her responsibilities and embarks on a chaotic, high-stakes chase across Europe by sea, rail, and air — all while stuck with Jack at her side.

Runaway Santa delivers a tale of gangsters, gunmen, and unexpected corpses.

With Hedgelord’s future hanging by a thread, can Charlotte outrun disaster, outwit her enemies, and save Christmas?

Book Three: Rise of the Elves

The explosive finale to the Christmas comedy trilogy from the best-selling authors of the Clovenhoof books.

It’s nearly Christmas, and Hedgelord Garden Centre is under new ownership — but something isn’t right. Sinister figures in black have taken over the shop floor, efficiency is at an all-time high, and nobody seems to know exactly who’s in charge or what they’re building in the warehouse.

Charlotte Mitchell would love to get to the bottom of it, but she’s got bigger problems. Thanks to a spectacularly bad decision, she and her longtime rival Jack Hartigan have just destroyed the town’s famous nativity scene — and promptly been sacked.

Now jobless, aimless, and deeply unaccustomed to being on the outside, Charlotte is struggling to accept her new reality. But when one last reckless plan drags her and Jack into a high-stakes undercover mission, they uncover something far worse than corporate restructuring.

With gun-toting gangsters, tooled-up Santas, and wildly inappropriate cracker gifts, Christmas is heading for a disaster of biblical proportions.

Can Charlotte put the pieces back together, uncover the truth, and save Christmas once and for all?

About Heide Goody and Iain Grant

Heide Goody and Iain Grant aren’t sure how many novels they’ve written together since 2011 but it’s more than 50.

Their ‘Satan in suburbia’ comedy fantasy series, Clovenhoof, has sold several hundred thousand copies and was followed by the popular urban fantasy series ‘Oddjobs’. In recent years, they have written the Sam Applewhite crime series and have also written cozy crime novels under the pen name Millie Ravensworth.

Heide lives in North Warwickshire. Iain lives in South Birmingham. They both share their homes with their long-suffering partners, and an assortment of children and pets.

Refreshments provided. There will be copies of Heide and Iain's books for sale at the event (payment by cash or card)

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