Sheepscombe author Jan Turk Petrie is supporting Oxfam with the launch of her first novel this month. Jan will be signing copies of her new book, Until the Ice Cracks, in the Oxfam Cirencester Books and Music shop on October 27. She is donating a sizeable share of her sales on the day to the charity.‘I’m a big supporter of Oxfam and was delighted when they asked me to do a book signing. The shop is such a good resource for readers and writers.’

Until the Ice Cracks

is the first volume of Jan’s trilogy of Eldisvik novels, set in a dark, cold Nordic city of the near future where heat is power, foxes are deadly and the line between the criminal underworld and the police is as thin as a crack in the ice – Nordic noir meets Blade Runner.

Volume Two of the trilogy ’No God fro a Warrior’ will also be published by Pintail Press next month and Jan is hard at work on the final volume right now.

A successful short story writer, this is Jan’s first published novel. She is a former English teacher with an MA in creative writing from the University of Gloucestershire. Jan also finds time to paint and exhibit semi-abstract oil paintings and has a studio space in the Painswick Centre.

Jan will be in the Oxfam shop at 7 West Market Place, Cirencester from 10 am to 12 noon on October 27. If you aren’t able to call in, her book can now be borrowed from Painswick Library and is also available from Amazon as a paperback or in Kindle format.