News
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David Weston shortlisted for Sheridan Morley prize for Theatre Biography
26 Feb 2015
Congratulations to David Weston whose Covering Shakespeare has been shortlisted for this year’s Sheridan Morley prize for Theatre Biography. Previous winners include Rupert Everett, Stephen Sondheim, Simon Callow, Michael Holroyd and Dominic Dromgoole. The prize will be awarded at the Garrick Club on 19th March.
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Simon West to direct Henry Cavill in Duncan Falconer thriller
25 Feb 2015
‘Action director Simon West (Con Air, The Expendables 2) has come on board to direct Henry Cavill in special forces thriller Stratton, which is due to shoot in the UK and Italy this summer. Man of Steel star Cavill star in the title role of the film based on the first of a series of eight novels by ex-SBS (Special Boat Service is the sister arm to the SAS) operative Duncan Falconer.’
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Lots of publicity for Breadline Britain
24 Feb 2015
Breadline Britain by Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack is generating huge interest, including the following:
BBC Radio 2 (1hr in) – Jeremy Vine interview – and tweeted to R2’s 300,000 followers
LBC – Shelagh Fogarty interview – and jacket tweeted to 100,000 followers
Guardian authored piece
City AM review: ‘A new book on poverty, Breadline Britain, deserves to be taken more seriously.’
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Maxwell's Return is Kindle #1
24 Feb 2015
The latest ‘Maxwell’ detective mystery from M J Trow, Maxwell’s Return, has gone to #1 in the Kindle bestseller list for Amazon Australia.
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
24 Feb 2015
Greek rights in Patrick Dillon’s novel Ithaca.
Chinese rights in Piu Eatwell’s They Eat Horses,don’t they?: The truth about the French
Romanian rights in Ian Graham’s Scarlet Women.
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Huge publicity for Daisy de Villeneuve
23 Feb 2015
Daisy de Villeneuve’s new book I Should Have Said, a collection of esprit d’escalier quotes and illustrations, is generating huge interest.
‘We loved this book. Wonderful illustrations and witty retorts. Daisy de Villeneuve is effortlessly cool and this book is fun and entertaining’.
Frost Magazine‘And for your single bff, do buy Daisy de Villeneuve’s sharp-tongued new book (pictured bottom) of illustrated ‘should’ve saids’, called, of course, I Should Have Said…’
Disney Rollergirl‘A smart, witty little compilation of illustrations inspired by the day-to-day quips of modern romance, from awkward goodbyes to miss-sent texts… plus all the things she wishes she’d said at the time. Don’t we all’
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Junk DNA selected as Scientific American 'recommended read'
23 Feb 2015
There’s a great review for Nessa Carey’s Junk DNA: A Journey through the Dark Matter of the Genome in the Scientific American, which picks the book as a ‘recommended read’.
‘In chronicling what we know and what we wonder about junk DNA, biologist Carey makes an apt comparison to dark matter. Just as the universe appears to contain mass that we cannot see or understand and yet nonetheless exerts a pull on normal matter, the mysterious parts of our genome have a vital effect on the workings of more straightforward elements of DNA. In fact, far from being useless, genetic rubbish may be what differentiates humans from less advanced species.’
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Three more Julie Shaw books to Harper Collins
22 Feb 2015
Harper Collins have bought three more books in the Hudson family series set on Bradford’s Canterbury estate by Julie Shaw. John’s Girl, the fourth title in the series, tells the tale of Kathleen, a modern-day Cinderella, and is set in 1965. The fifth book The Family: a killer in our Street, is set in the 1970s and tells the story of another branch of the clan - Keith and Shirley Hudson’s brood. The sixth book, Christine, centres around a young mother during the 1980s.
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Cat memoir to Simon & Schuster
22 Feb 2015
Simon & Schuster have bought world rights in Able Seacat Simon by Lynne Barrett-Lee which recounts the adventures of the official ship’s cat aboard the naval Frigate, HMS Amethyst.
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Two new Casey Watson titles to Harper Collins
22 Feb 2015
Harper Collins have bought world rights in two more Casey Watson fostering titles . The thirteenth book in the series, A Voice for Bella, centres round a five-year-old girl taken in because of domestic violence at home while the next book, The Girl Who Never Was, is the story of fourteen-year-old Polish imigrant Adrianna. The books will be published next year.
