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FORTHCOMING APPEARANCES...
 Rachel will be making the following appearances to promote her new book, "A Diary of The Lady"
1st October - HENLEY
12pm – Event at Henley Festival
9th October - CHELTENHAM
Event at Cheltenham Festival
6ish – time tbc
12th October - MAYFAIR
Evening event at Heywood Hill Bookshop
18th October - NOTTING HILL
5 x 15 Event
19th October - GUILDFORD
12.30pm Event at Guildford Festival at Electric Theatre
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WELCOME TO RACHEL JOHNSON.CO.UK
Latest News: AM THRILLED AND DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT NOTTING HELL AKA LE DIABLE VIT A NOTTING HILL IS NUMBER 2 ON THE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR FICTION BESTSELLER LIST IN FRANCE!
http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/
MERCI A TOUS! AND - SURPRISE - IT'S STILL AVAILABLE IN THE UK UNLIKE SHIRE HELL WHICH IS NOW "OUT OF STOCK."
Meanwhile, it's coming up for six months since was appointed editor of the oldest and finest women's weekly in the whole world, The Lady magazine.
Since then we have relaunched, vamped, revamped, redesigned and reengineered the website, had a Channel Four crew in for months, ie it's all been a bit busy. But here's a thought:
why not take out your yearly subscription now, save 35 per cent, and save those tiresome trips to the newsagent every Tuesday for your precious copy?
Here's the link so just get out your credit card for a whole year's worth of reading pleasure for less than a hundred quid.
Visit the main website at http://www.lady.co.uk/
Here's the link to the Guardian.
Here's the news story in the FT.
And here for those of you with more stamina is the "exclusive" interview with the Mail on Sunday.
And here's Her Ladyship on The Media Show being interviewed by Steve Hewlett. I'm on about eight minutes before the end, ie it is a veritable peroration.
OTHER NEWS: Shire Hell is just out in the US (with new title In a Good Place thanks to my spectacular publishers, Simon and Schuster). If you haven't read it yet, my Hollywood style pitch is, think Desperate Housewives meets Straw Dogs...Penguin £6.99.
NOTTING HELL is being published in France and Russia... And I am still working on novel number three.
So I am embarking on what I am calling for short "Notting Heil" or "Sieg Hell" for the moment as title is still under wraps.
PS if you've looked at the US pix, I'd like to say in my defence: I'd been eating a lot of room service and plundering minibars when these photos were taken, and above all I am at a Chicago bookshop with Santa Montefiore, who was with me on what our publishers brilliantly termed the Blonde British Bombshell tour. IN case you don't know, Santa is about seven foot tall and built like Gisele Bundchen and does Pilates and I come up to her hipbone in real life (also out of shot, but invariably clad in buttery suede Ralph Lauren). I loved all the cities I visited. I ate eggs every breakfast, and Caesar salad for lunch, and the contents of the mini-bar for supper, usually in front of the Weather Channel. It was so much fun. Even the events. The biggest thrill was walking into store and seeing a big sign saying, Moms Day! and Gifts for Moms! and there would be a massive tower of my books next to a rapidly shrinking tower of Shopaholic and Baby by the brilliant bestsellering Sophie Kinsella. I hope you can see that in the photo.
Meanwhile the Mummy Diaries is, fancy! still available in paperback too and, though I say so myself, makes a perfect stocking filler (I think I may have said that before this time last year, but who cares?) Click on Amazon.co.uk and also in all good bookshops still I hope.
Er, that's it for now.
More soon I hope.
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THE MUMMY DIARIES
A message from Penguin:
"Rachel Johnson's take on life as a so-called yummy mummy (whatever that is) in West London and on Exmoor has been entertaining her newspaper readers for the last couple of years: now they are seamlessly turned into a diary of her year."
I have been shamelessly plugging the book here there and everywhere but here in full is my best review - from Heat magazine, no less.
"Oh, the trials of Rachel Johnson's life. Running a house in Notting Hill and another one in Exmoor, with only minimal help from a cleaning lady and au pair. Honestly, we wonder how the woman manages to get up in the morning, never mind haul herself to the Aga, such is her burden. Of course, she does work occasionally, since she managed to rattle off this book between trips to the Portobello Market...but we can't think it's too much of a drain. Despite the type of charmed life that usually makes us grind out teeth and harrumph with envy, we just can't manage to dislike Rachel Johnson. The weekly instalments of her middle class mummy's diary are actually very, very funny, possibly because you get the distinct impression she is making up this whole wife/mother thing as she goes along. A must-read for all you yummy-mummies."
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ABOUT RACHEL
(Warning - this section is almost guaranteed to irritate. Those to whom I already cause catastrophic pain are advised to move straight on to my archives at the Telegraph and Spectator).
Bio
Rachel Johnson comes from a large blonde family and has spawned three flaxen-haired children, now aged 10, 13 and 14. She is the daughter of the environmentalist and writer Stanley Johnson, and the painter Charlotte Johnson Wahl.
After Oxford, where she read Mods and Greats and edited the University Magazine Isis, she was hired by the Financial Times. She was the paper’s first female graduate trainee, and almost its last, as she managed to spend a healthy proportion of her five years at the pink ‘un either on maternity leave or working on secondment to the Foreign Office think-tank, the policy planning staff.
She left the Financial Times after her second child was born and moved to the BBC. Then she got cunningly got pregnant a third time and, after scoring her third paid maternity leave in four years, left the BBC to "launch a freelance career from home" (ie skank about in tracksuit bottoms), her husband having been conveniently posted to Washington D.C, where it is very easy to park and they literally give away the clothes in Baby Gap, it’s that cheap.
Since then, she has written weekly columns for the Sunday Telegraph, the Financial Times, the Evening Standard, the Brussels-based Bulletin, and the Daily Telegraph, although - hello! - not all at the same time.
She has also written for the Guardian, ES Magazine, and many others she can't remember, including a cover story on Chelsea Clinton for Hello!
Rachel Johnson is married to Ivo Dawnay and lives in Notting Hill and in a seventeenth century farmhouse deep in a river valley in the Johnson pridelands on Exmoor.
She does not hunt.
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