News 14 December 2001

GENERAL TITLES

Reg McKay, author of the best selling FERRIS CONSPIRACY has just delivered the novel, DEADLY DIVISIONS, which he has written with Paul Ferris. Glasgow Gangster Ferris is due to be released from prison in January and both the Herald newspaper and best selling men's mag, MAXIM, have features lined up to coincide with his release.

Adèle Lang has been astrologer for MINX MAGAZINE, MARIE CLAIRE and is now predicting the stars for best selling HEAT magazine as a result of her book (co-written with Susi Rajah), HOW TO SPOT A B*STARD BY HIS STAR SIGN. It remains a best seller for Mainstream. It has just been reissued in paperback by Pan Macmillan Australia and in February 2002 Thomas Dunne (St Martins Press) in the USA will be publishing it to coincide with Valentines Day. It has also been published in Italy (Arcana) and Germany (Ullstein).

Lang has just been invited to contribute a story to BIG NIGHT OUT, the follow up anthology to GIRL'S BIG NIGHT IN and BOY'S BIG NIGHT IN edited by Jessica Adams. Proceeds go to War Child. The books have been a huge success in the UK and Australia and this time is going to be launched in the States edited by Candace Bushnell of SEX AND THE CITY fame. Lang's novel WHAT KATYA DID NEXT, published by Random House in Australia, Mainstream in the UK and La Serpent a Plume in France is also being published by Thomas Dunne in the US in 2002 under the title CONFESSIONS OF A SOCIOPATHIC SOCIAL CLIMBER.

NOW SOLO which was to have been an Autumn 2001 title has been delayed to the spring and will now be launched with a lavish party at the Hyde Park Hotel on March 19th. The London Book Fair ends the day before so any booksellers and overseas publishers still in town should let us know and they will be sent an invitation - if they still have the energy left to party!

SPORTS TITLES

ARRIVERDERCI SWANSEA, the biography of Italian / Welsh footballer Giorgio Chinaglia was selected by THE SUNDAY TIMES as one of their sports books of the year.

BIKIE by Charlie Wood has been nominated for the J R Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.

The prize of £1000 and a silver PEN (donated by Dupont) will be awarded at International Writers Day to be held in London in 2002.

THE BOYS OF 86 - THE UNTOLD STORY OF WEST HAM'S GREATEST SEASON has made it to No.2 in THE SUNDAY TIMES and THE INDEPENDENT'S sport best seller list.

And Finally...

Jamie Kilpatrick, our marketing and rights assistant who left to go traveling, has been 'discovered' by a Swedish model agency on a beach in Thailand!

He is currently supplementing his income by modeling out there and the agency is attempting to lure him back to Europe for work in Milan and Scandinavia.