Sophie Kinsella, 1969-2025

Madeleine Wickham, best known to millions of readers and fans as Sophie Kinsella, died aged 55 on 10 December 2025 after a courageous battle with brain cancer.

You can read Sophie’s obituary on the Penguin books website here.

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Sharing some news

To my dear readers, I’ve wanted for a long time to share with you a health update and I’ve been waiting for the strength to do so. At the end of 2022 I was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a form of aggressive brain cancer. I did not share this before because I wanted to make sure […]

New Shopaholic audiobooks narrated by Nell Hudson

WF Howes & Recorded Books have rerecorded and are relaunching the Shopaholic audiobooks! The talented Nell Hudson, star of Outlander and ITV’s Victoria, is narrating them, and they have brand new covers, too! The first three books – The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (called Confessions of a Shopaholic in US & Canada), Shopaholic Abroad […]