As all fans of the fantastic Alex Rider series written by Anthony Horowitz must now know, the newest book – Crocodile Tears was launched on Thursday the 12th November. I was privileged enough to be invited to the launch party by the always amazing people at Walker Books.

As it was a party there was cake involved…

crowds of people had been invited to celebrate (authors, publishers and even librarians)

Piles of Crocodile Tears were placed artistically around the room

There was even a pianist tickling the ivories for the evening

Our host spent the evening mingling with friends and well-wishers

Although he was not too busy to stop for some publicity shots

or to sign some of the rare copies that were given to the lucky attendees

At the end of the evening there were some very smug Librarians

including me ^_^