News 7 June 2002

AWARDS

The adjudicators of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award have been in touch to make sure we are going to submit THE JOURNEYMAN for the annual prize. Mainstream are the only publishers to have won the Award twice before.

LAUNCH PARTIES

The House of Commons will be the venue for a post publication launch for TOWER OF STRENGTH on July 10th. The host will be Ann Clywd MP.

NEW WEB BEST SELLER

OMAN by John Beasant has shot to the top of our web site bestseller list. The last books to sell so well were BIN LADEN and JIHAD. It must be something about Middle East books!

It is followed by NOW SOLO by Jennifer Murray, DEADLY DIVISIONS by Reg McKay and Paul Ferris and HOOLIFAN by Martin King and Martin Knight.

To see the full list click on the link opposite.

CONFESSIONS OF A SOCIOPATHIC SOCIAL CLIMBER by Adèle Lang (WHAT KATYA DID NEXT in the UK and Australia) has leaped 11 places and is now officially No. 18 on New York Times Best-Seller List!

MEDIA COVERAGE

The Times are going to review THE JOURNEYMAN. The boxing editor loved it so much he is meeting up with Michael Murray with a view to interviewing him for the paper.

Middle East Magazine (the biggest and most influential Middle Eastern publication) is going to review OMAN, and it looks likely there will be a news story in the Sunday Times.

Fiona Danskin, author of THE DUNDEE HANDBOOK, has been interviewed the Sunday Times 'Écosse' section.

NEW BOOKS

THE DUNDEE HANDBOOK by Fiona Danskin has gone straight in to the shops after a printers error delayed publication by a few weeks.

SEVENTY-ONE GUNS, THE YEAR OF THE FIRST ARSENAL DOUBLE by David Tossell.

And Finally...

Mainstream staff were today given the option of taking a two hour lunch to watch the England v Argentina match or leaving an hour early. The advantage of working at one of the UK's leading sports publishers!