Clarissa Dickson Wright’s autobiography Spilling the Beans (Pub 6 Sep 2007) is number one on the Times best-seller list, and is selling like hot cakes around the country.

Our own Christine Coleman, a childhood friend of Clarissa’s is mentioned no less than 28 times in the course of Spilling the Beans and The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society gets a great plug on page 313 of the book.

Linda Gillard's debut novel Emotional Geology is on the shortlist to win the PURE PASSION award being run by Time To Read and the Romantic Novelists Association.

The award is being voted for by the public so this one really means a lot.

Everyone who reads it seems to agree that Emotional Geology is an amazing accomplishment and I'm sure that we all agree that no-one deserves this award more than Linda.

So if you've read Emotional Geology (and frankly if you haven't you should be ashamed of yourself) get yourself along to www.timetoread.co.uk and VOTE GILLARD!

There is an absolutely lovely review of Blue Slipper Bay featured here.

Blue Slipper Bay is the second in the series of three "Undercliff" novels, the first being Sorrow of Sisters which was published by Transita in 2006.

You can read extracts of both the first two novels here.

Here are the list of the lucky winners of our PRUE LEITH COMPETITION. Our thanks to the many hundreds of you who took part.

* Julianne Regan, London * Nikki Malam, Torquay *
* Jane Boyd, Cheshire * Gillian Mason, Cumbria *
* Angela Brown, Devon * Janet Welch, Bracknell *
* Sally Acott, Kent * Anna Guest, Staffs *
* Jo Bryan, Peterborough * Alison Booth, Essex*

Congratulations, your books will be with you soon.

We are delighted to announce the publication of Prue Leith's new novel The Gardener.

Everyone at Transita is thrilled to have Prue on board with us - we're sure you're going to love this book.

You can learn a little more about it and get a sneaky peak at Chapter One here

Blue Slipper Bay by Wendy K Harris is out in the shops now and judging by the amount of requests we've been getting for preview copies we anticipate a vertitable stampede towards Amazon by fans eager to secure their copy. You can buy yours here.

You can get a sneak peak of this hotly anticipated book here.

Wendy has also been featured in Writing Magazine - you can read the article here.

Finally, if any of you are going to be in the Isle of Wight on the 19th June you'd be very welcome to come along to the official launch party which will be held at the Waterstones store in Newport at 6.00pm.

There's a really amazing review of The Crowded Bed by Mary Cavanagh in this weeks Oxford Times.

You can read it here (it's a PDF so you might need to download ACROBAT, which you can do by clicking here - it's free.)

If that's captured your imagination you can read the first chapter of The Crowded Bed here.

There's a lovely piece in this weeks Oxford Times about Kay Langdale and her debut novel Redemption.

You can read it here (it's a PDF so you might need to download ACROBAT, which you can do by clicking here - it's free.)

Judging by the feedback we get from readers, Redemption seems to be one of those Transita novels that people have taken to their hearts and it's great to see Kay get some very well deserved recognition.

If you'd like to see for yourself what all the fuss is about you can read the first chapter of Redemption here.

We are overjoyed to announce that A Proper Family Christmas by Jane Gordon Cumming will be published in Germany next December by German publishing giant DER CLUB BERTELSMANN.

This is just one more in a long line of rights deals we've completed over the last few months and it follows hard on the heels of the release of the full unabridged audio version of The Scent of Water by Alison Hoblyn (see below).

A full list of all our rights deals can be found here.

You can now enjoy Alison Hoblyn's beautiful novel The Scent of Water in an unabridged version just released on CD by audio book publishers Oakhill.

The Unabridged Audio edition will be available shortly through www.audible.co.uk or direct from Oakhill Publishing Tel 01225 317209

You can download a sample MP3 chapter of the audiobook by clicking here.

Recently Adrienne Dines has been popping up all over the place in the Irish media.

Soft Voices Whispering is being featured on the top rated RTE-1 breakfast show every day this week. You can listen to it here.

In addition Adrienne recently appeared on Seoige & O'Shea (which is Ireland's equivalent of the Richard and Judy Show) - you can visit their website here.

We promise we'll have a clip of the show for you to watch on the website just as soon as we've got our heads around the technicalities.

The 2007 Transita catalogue is now available to download as a PDF.

Get in there quick and you'll be one of the first to find out which CELEBRITY AUTHOR is publishing with us this year.

If you'd rather we sent you a copy in the mail please email us here and we'll rush one to you.

Every month Lynne Hatwell's column is consistently the most visited page on our website but due to overworked webmonkeys at Transita Towers it has gone missing on the site for a couple of months. We want to make that up to you now with a DOUBLE BILL and we promise she'll be here regular as clockwork from now on.

You can read her latest columns here and here then let us know what you think on our message boards.

As if all that wasn't enough you can read more on her blog.

"By the time I reached the water, I could just make out Naomi waving. I woke up in hospital. Apparently life savers had pulled me out and saved my life. I was furious. And that was the start of them poking around. This was a situation that Jack and I had not thought of, that the time would come when other people would poke their noses in, and prevent the surviving one from doing away with his or herself."

Snobbish, aloof and eighty years old, Lady Arabella Cunningham-Smythe wishes she were dead. Then at least she could join her late husband as they had planned so meticulously before he died.

But a band of well meaning friends and relations are determined to thwart her wishes. It is only when her beloved four year old granddaughter Naomi - who has magical powers - is kidnapped that things change. Lady Arabella must regain the will to live if she is to turn detective, successfully outwit a mass murderer – and learn to master her mobile phone.

You can find out more and read the first chapter of Sara's novel here.

Our featured author this month is Mary Cavanagh.

You can find out more about Mary here and read the first chapter from her debut novel here.

We just had to share this amazing review that Alison received in the Oxford Times recently.

You can read the review here and download the first chapter of the book here.

Susie Vereker has had a couple of really great reviews for her new novel An Old Fashioned Arrangement. The first comes from The Post Gazette in Alton and, in keeping with her international profile, the other one appears in the Geneva based publication The Courier.

You can read them both here.

Yet another Transita author has blasted off into cyberspace with the launch of the new website from Wendy Harris. On this site you can find out loads of information about Wendy and her writing.

You can visit her lovely site by clicking here.

As well as her incredibly popular column for the Transita website, Lynne Hatwell also writes an amazingly comprehensive and informative Blog.

If you love books - you'll love this. Visit it here.

We've already told you how much we love BOOKCROSSING and now it seems the Book Crossers love us too. Read a selection of some of the wonderful reviews we've been given here. These reviews are by REAL honest to goodness readers. Just goes to show what we always hoped, when people get their hands on Transita books - they love them.