We had a big parcel on Monday from City Editions, the French publisher of Adept, our best-selling thriller. And what did it contain, but ten beautiful copies of the French edition!

"Un best-seller haletant qui a reçu un formidable accueil public et critique en Grande-Bretagne."

Adept has now been sold to German, France, Serbia & Montenegro, Greece, Romania Italy and Bulgaria, as well as into talking book and large print format in this country, so look forward to seeing a host of other covers appearing here soon.

One of the best bits about foreign editions is undoubtedly finding out what other people need explaining, as in this footnote:

(2) Célèbre série télévisée comique diffusée à la fin des années 1970 par la BBC, se déroulant dans un hôtel dirigé par un gérant tyrannique et farfelu (John Cleese, des Monty Python).

Can you guess what it is yet?