JULY, 2009
UP WITH THE LARKS is published today and this wonderful memoir of downshifting from international cosmetics company manager to village postie has already had 3 pages of coverage in the Daily Mail and 3 pages in the Western Morning News and has - unheard of these days - reprinted before publication. We expect great things - Tessa Hainsworth could be the Peter Mayle of Cornwall!
posted by JANE July 02, 2009 2:52 PM
Orion Books are to publish the new novel from Harold Carlton, whose debut LABELS sold 800,000 copies with Bantam US and UK twenty years ago. Harold was my very first client when I started my agency so it is a particular pleasure that he has returned to writing and to have made such an exciting sale of his new novel.
Kate Mills and her colleagues are hugely enthusiastic about it and will publish as a lead title in March 10.
Set in the world of haute couture in Paris in the late '60s, HEAVEN, HELL AND CHANEL tells the intertwining stories of four young people crazy for fashion - it's a glorious, sexy old-fashioned page-turner and I am expecting it to sell all over the world. Welcome back Harold!
posted by JANE July 02, 2009 2:47 PM
JUNE, 2009
HARRY PATCH, the last survivor of the trench warfare of the First World War, is 111 today. He is the author, with Richard Van Emden, of THE LAST FIGHTING TOMMY, of which Bloomsbury have sold more than 350,000 copies. Harry must be the world's oldest first time author and I am honoured to represent this self-deprecating, wise and noble man. No wonder the nation has fallen in love with you Harry!
posted by JANE June 17, 2009 7:52 AM
The agency's authors are busy at literary fesitvals this summer. Johnny Kingdom spoke to a packed audience at the du Maurier festival in Fowey in early May; Kevin McCloud, 'Netmums' founder Siobhan Freegard and healthy eating guru Judith Wills all appeared at the Hay Festival last week and Elspeth Thompson, Ros Badger and Prue Leith will be at Dartington 'Way With Word' festival next month. All these authors are in the midst of writing new books and I salute their dedication to their fans!
posted by JANE June 06, 2009 10:56 AM
APRIL, 2009
RIBBLESTROP is the first childrens' novel that the agency has handled in our 22 years. Andy Mulligan, its debut author, used to teach my son which is how it came my way and it is the most glorious adventure and quite brilliantly written. It is published today by Simon and Schuster, who have an outstanding childrens' list and the first review - from Philip Ardagh in Saturday's Guardian describes it as
'A blast of fresh air' and 'disgracefully dangerous high-octane fun of the highest order; an outrageous delight'.
posted by JANE April 06, 2009 10:50 AM
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