For this month’s Through the Keyhole posts I thought it would be nice to recap the epic few weeks of events we’ve had at Hot Key – there’s been so many brilliant festivals, bookshop talks and school events that we just had to share the joy! First up will be a recap of Garth Nix’s promotional UK and Ireland tour for CLARIEL, the brand new Old Kingdom prequel. There were charter mark shortbreads, towering piles of much loved backlist to be signed and lots of jam-packed, sold out mega events!

So after his long journey from Australia to the UK, we sent him off around the whole country, with stops at *deep breath* the lovely Easons folk in Dublin, the amazing bell ringers of Norwich Waterstones, the cool kids of Bath Children’s Literature Festival, the grinning fans at Leeds Waterstones, the furry microphone armed Scottish Booktrusters, the bookseller...