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News 24 May 2002LITERARY AWARD:
The winner will be announced in late Autumn. MAINSTREAM TITLE BECOMES US BEST SELLER:
FILM AND TV RIGHTS: Since the review of WHAT KATYA DID NEXT on national TV in the US Mainstream have received calls from several film producers regarding film rights. Rights are being handled by Rebecca Watson at VH Associates in London. |
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LANGUAGE by Dan Gunn has been nominated for a Saltire Literary Award.
Books are selected by the Literary Editors of newspapers and magazines
concerned with literature. The judging panel also suggest books for nomination.
The Saltire Book of the Year (£5000) is one of the longest established
and most prestigious of Scottish Literary Awards. The first winner in
1982 was Alasdair Gray's LANARK; winners since then have included
James Kelman, William McIlvanney, Edwin Morgan and Muriel Spark.
Confessions
of a Sociopathic Social Climber by Adèle Lang (published by
Mainstream in the UK under the title WHAT KATYA DID NEXT) has been
named the second selection of the Book Club on Live with Regis and Kelly.
The Book Club has replaced Oprah Winfreys influential Book Club in the
States. The announcement was made to viewers on Wednesday, May 22 on which
Kelly said, "This book is like Bridget Jones meets Sex in the City."
Adèle has now been invited to do a PR tour of the US, including
an interview on the show. After an initial printing of 10,000 copies St.
Martin's Press has ordered the printing of 135,000 more copies to hit
stores immediately. Today it shot to Number 1 in the 
THE
BALLAD OF SYLVIA AND TED by Emma Tennant was in the news again this
week with the announcement in the DAILY TELEGRAPH that 'Gwyneth Paltrow
is to star as tortured poet Plath in BBC film' The role of Hughes has
not yet been cast although Colin Firth and Russell Crowe are among names
being considered. David Thompson, Head of BBC Films, was also responsible
for the film IRIS about the illness and death of the novelist Iris Murdoch.
BBC Films made the announcement about Paltrow at the Cannes Festival as
soon as she agreed to star. THE BALLAD OF SYLVIA AND TED has also been
mentioned in reviews of Jillian Beckers new book about Plath which is
published this week.
THE
OSBOURNES, which has been hugely popular in the States, begins on
MTV this Sunday. In the wake of all the announcements about Ozzy Osbourne
books Mainstream are delighted to announce that we have already published
PARANOID: BLACK DAYS WITH SABBATH AND OTHER STORIES by Mick Wall
(£9.99 pbk). Wall was a PR for Sabbath and his book forms a fly
on the wall account of life with the band. The precursor to the TV series! 
THE
JOURNEYMAN by Michael Murray published on 23rd May has been receiving
excellent reviews. Following a superb review in THE GUARDIAN there was
an even better one in THE SUNDAY TIMES the following day: