News 26 April 2002

Rights

Martin King, co-author of HOOLIFAN and THE NAUGHTY NINETIES, was featured in a documentary about football hooligans this week. HOOLIFAN has already been sold to publishers in Italy and Japan.

MOTHER AND CHILD by Jan de Vries has just been sold to Ankh-Hermes in Holland. Finished copies of the UK edition are due in next week.

FORTHCOMING TITLES:

HOMELAND - The success of the far right in the French elections this week makes HOMELAND frighteningly topical. The second round of the presidential elections takes place on May 5th when the French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen faces Jacques Chirac. The long awaited HOMELAND manuscript is due on May 14th. World rights are available apart from the States where it has been sold to North Eastern University Press.

FOR ALL THOSE LEFT BEHIND - Pre publication quotes are pouring in for this memoir which will be published in Autumn 2002. Sadly we only have UK and Commonwealth Rights.

"Fishing is the new rock n'roll and former record industry executive John Andrews has to be the best placed person to chart its ever increasing appeal. But in this exquisite, highly personal memoir Andrews goes way beyond the mysterious world of angling to look at how through fishing he came to terms with the death of his father and eventually found a kind of peace away from the riverbank." HENRY SUTTON

"Angling has its deeply spiritual, almost religious moments.These are hard to define and even harder to capture in words.   In the quest for his own personal grail, and for the spirit of his father, John Andrews prose is honest and true." ROGER WYNDHAM BARNES

"Here's proof that anglers are not all pipes and lassitude.  In Andrews we have a fierce honesty, ready to stalk the truth like a pike, gifted with the instinct to create a beautiful philosophy of what lies under the surface, from the haunted ponds of his childhood to the gun-running Cuban seas of his fictional heros." DEXTER PETLEY

Just Published Titles

NOW SOLO - Last weeks diary page in HELLO featured the book launch. The TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE are running a five page piece on the book in the June

MAINSTREAM take over BBC RADIO 5 - The Nicky Campbell Show on BBC Radio 5 seem to be devoting a weekly slot to Mainstream authors. Frank McGillion (ON THE EDGE OF A LIFETIME) and Duncan McLaughlin (THE FILTH) have been on in the last couple of weeks and coming up we have Paolo Hewitt (THE LOOKED AFTER KID) on 9th May and David Rowley (BEATLES FOR SALE) on 15th May. Congratulations to publicity!

And Finally...

New books continue to flood in. This week we have had THE DREAM SOLUTION and HILLS OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND. Just arrived fresh from the printers are ARMED CANDY, MOTHER AND CHILD and '66, THE INSIDE STORY OF ENGLAND’S WORLD CUP TRIUMPH.

Out now