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Joel Rickett in The Bookseller today interviews me and my colleagues Pat Kavanagh and Caroline Dawnay about United Agents and the future, PFD and the past. You can read the whole article here.
There has been so much other press in recent days about the launch that I have archived it here. You can also visit our website here
If you missed Paul Arnott, author of LET ME EAT CAKE, on Richard Bacon’s BBC R5 show on Thursday night you can listen again here. Paul will be doing a lot of publicity and press over the next three weeks to launch his stunning new non-fiction title IS THERE ANYONE UP THERE? - Adventures In Faith and Doubt which is published by Jocasta Hamilton at Hodder on April 17th. As a young boy Paul Arnott believed in Adam and Eve, Father Christmas and Baby Jesus. But as he got older he found things weren’t so simple…..
The multi-talented Chris Humphreys has joined my list.
As C.C. Humphreys, Chris has written five historical fiction novels. The first, ‘The French Executioner’ was runner up for the CWA Steel Dagger for Thrillers 2002. Its sequel, ‘Blood Ties’, was a bestseller in Canada. He has written three books about Jack Absolute - this ‘007 of the 1770’s’ - ‘Jack Absolute’, ‘The Blooding of Jack Absolute’ and, most recently, ‘Absolute Honour’. All have been published in the UK, Canada, the US and translated widely. As ‘Chris Humphreys’ he has written a trilogy for Young Adults ‘The Runestone Saga’. His latest adult novel: THE LAST CONFESSION - the true history of DRACULA which will be published worldwide in 2008 and 2009.
Venetia Thompson (pictured on the cover of the current issue of The Spectator) has joined my client list. Read her piece ‘A Sloane Ranger In Gangsta land’ here - Tired of Euro-Sloane bores in Chelsea, she tours the clubs of Harlesden, the UK’s ‘gun capital’, and experiences a world where a firearm is as normal a status symbol as a Chanel handbag or a Rolex watch would be in SW3. Venetia is working on a fantastic non-fiction proposal - more details soon.
Congratulations to Scarlett Thomas whose novel THE END OF MR Y is on the Orange Broadband Prize For Fiction Longlist 2008 announced today.
She joins United Agents client Tessa Hadley, author of THE MASTER BEDROOM, and a host of other female authors to make up a list which aims to celebrate excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing. The Chairman of the Judges Kirsty Lang said “There is a great balance on this list, not only in its international reach and range of human experience, but also between first novels and some established writers that haven’t perhaps had the recognition they deserved”. The shortlist is announced on the 15th April and the winner, who receives a cheque for £30,000 and a trophy (the ‘Bessie’) is announced at a ceremony in London on June 4th. Continue reading ‘THE FUTURE’S BRIGHT - THE FUTURE’S SCARLETT’
The most successful Irish debut of 2007, Niamh Greene’s laugh-out-loud SECRET DIARY OF A DEMENTED HOUSEWIFE (Penguin Ireland), has been shortlisted for two Irish Book Awards - in the The Galaxy Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year and the International Education Services Ltd Best Irish Newcomer of the Year categories. Continue reading ‘THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENE(R)’
The Observer has released the 2008 list of The World’s 50 Top Bloggers and we are thrilled that both Petite Anglaise and Girl With A One Track Mind are both riding high. Read the full list here
Danny Wallace’s forthcoming novel FRIENDS LIKE THESE has been optioned by those nice people at Ruby Films. Miramax Films and Film4 have struck a development and production deal with Alison Owen and Paul Trijbits of Ruby Films, the British company behind The Other Boleyn Girl. Overall deal is Miramax’s first anywhere in the world since Daniel Battsek moved from Disney’s London office to run the studio’s specialty division in 2005. The three-year pact gives Miramax and Film4 first look to co-develop and co-produce Ruby features. Miramax will take worldwide rights to movies made under the partnership, with Film4 retaining U.K. TV rights. Read the full story here
Stanley Spencer is best known for his huge paintings that treat British village life in the manner of Renaissance frescoes, such as his masterpiece The Resurrection, Cookham, in which the lives (and deaths) of ordinary folk are tenderly offered up to our gaze. United Agents’ Author and Spencer fan Sîan Pattenden visited the current exhibition at Tate Liverpool and made a wonderful little film. Click on the screengrab to watch the whole thing.
Fiona Neil’s ‘The Secret Life Of A Slummy Mummy’ has risen to Number Three - its highest ever position in The Sunday Times paperback bestseller list, selling a whacking 21,000 copies in the week.
United Agents author Steven Hall is shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2008, the UK’s premier prize for science fiction literature alongside Stephen Baxter, Matthew de Abaitua, Sarah Hall, Ken MacLeod and Richard Morgan.
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