It was a pleasure once again to accompany young Wilf Kennen Amos (pictured left with his Mum - Ally) to yet another award ceremony. This time his mum, Ally Kennen - author of the sublimely dark BEAST and the even darker BERSERK was up for the Brandford Boase Award along with her editor Marion Lloyd from Scholastic. BEAST was a strong contender on the six-long shortlist but, on this occasion Ally was unlucky and the winner was Siobhan Dowd and her editor David Fickling from DFB/Random. Rumours that Wilf is shortly to be launching a controversially blog are hotly denied by his father Dan Amos but watch this space…
See lots of pictures here
Hello - Word reaches me from Robin Cooper, Brondesbury Villas’ most famous resident, that his diaries are to be published by those clever people at Little Brown who, having published both Nelson Mandela and Ewan McGregor, know a little bit about working with iconic figures. Oh yes. THE TIMEWASTER DIARIES are available from July 5th and, in a shock development, the BBC in their wisdom is allowing Paul Whitehouse to read extracts for an entire week on Radio 4 as their ‘Book Of The Week’. A worthy follow-up to his 250,000 selling volumes of letters I am confident Mr Cooper’s peculiar sense of time and place will win him thousand of new fans.
It was a total pleasure to accompany award-winning YA author Ally Kennen, her husband Dan and their youngest son Wilfie to the Cilip Carnegie Awards on June 21st. Although Meg Rosoff triumphed it was a wonderful achievement for Ally to be shortlisted for her debut novel BEAST and the team from Scholastic were out in force as we all celebrated both Beast’s ongoing international success and the publication of Ally’s astonishing follow-up - BERSERK. More pictures here
Fiona Neill’s UK bestseller The Secret Life Of A Slummy Mummy (Century/Arrow UK) has become the talk of New York as a result of an endorsement from an unlikely quarter. Anna Wintour - the inspiration for the book/film The Devil Wears Prada - waxes lyrical about Fiona’s creation Lucy Sweeney in the current issue of American Vogue, calling her ‘a literary phenomenon to rival Bridget Jones’. She goes on to say it “plays with the chaos and comedy of 30-something metropolitan maternity and brings it to an unexpectedly moving conclusion”. Sarah McGrath at Riverhead/Penguin will publish shortly in the U.S.
Today’s IRISH TIMES has a three page article by John Boyne about his ‘exhilerating and surreal experience ‘ visiting the set of the movie of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS in Budapest. The movie stars David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Asa Butterfield and Amber Beattie and is directed by Mark Herman. It is scheduled for a 2007/8 release and is produced by Heyday Films for Disney/Miramax.
It was a pleasure once again to accompany young Wilf Kennen Amos (pictured left with his Mum - Ally) to yet another award ceremony. This time his mum, Ally Kennen - author of the sublimely dark BEAST and the even darker BERSERK was up for the Brandford Boase Award along with her editor Marion Lloyd from Scholastic. BEAST was a strong contender on the six-long shortlist but, on this occasion Ally was unlucky and the winner was Siobhan Dowd and her editor David Fickling from DFB/Random. Rumours that Wilf is shortly to be launching a controversially blog are hotly denied by his father Dan Amos but watch this space…
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