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News 5 July 2002LES McKEOWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Les McKeown was the lead singer with the 70's pop sensation The Bay City Rollers. This is his autobiography. The world's first ever boy band they consistently reached number one all over Europe and in North America, selling an estimated one hundred and twenty million records. In Japan the Bay City Rollers were more successful than the Beatles. This long awaited chronicle of Rollermania provides a fascinating insight into the less savoury aspects of the music industry. Irvine Welsh will write the foreword. The manuscript is due at Christmas for publication next year. World rights. JOHN McNAMEE has known Meg Henderson since childhood. Following her international best seller FINDING PEGGY (Harper Collins), in this book she aims to find the truth about the footballer John McNamee. She goes beyond his success on the football field to describe his childhood with a vicious drunk as a stepfather and being taunted at school for being a 'bastard'. She also describes how his wife died suddenly at the age of 41 leaving with him with four children under the age of 13. Money was tight and he rarely saw his children because he had to work so many hours to support them. Then he broke his neck in a head on crash and is currently recovering from a triple by pass. Asked why he didn't contact the Players Union when he was struggling financially he shrugs and says 'I didn't like to ask'. This is a human story, not just a sports biography. World rights. FRIENDLY FIRE by the same team of academics behind this seasons WAR OF THE WINDSORS provides an alternative history of the 2nd World War. It describes the complicated relationships between the US and Britain and the British Royal Family and Germany. The authors argue that the war could have finished two years earlier but for the self-interest of the US. World rights. GLASGOW IRISH by John Burrowes describes the impact of the Irish
immigrants on modern Glasgow. He tells the great human story of the most
tragic chapter in the history of Ireland, a chapter which was to have
dramatic effect on Scotland, and in particular on Glasgow. World rights.
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AUTUMN '02 The Autumn catalogue has finally arrived and copies are going out this week. One new signing since the catalogue was printed is THE RISE AND RISE OF CHARLTON ATHLETIC by MICK COLLINS (November 2002). It is the centenary of Charlton Athletic Football Club this year. They are now in the Premier Division and it is a little known fact that fourteen Charlton Athletic players were in this years World Cup. Mick Collins has supported the club since birth and spent the last three years working for their Press Office. Having been in close contact with people at all levels of the club during the most exciting period in its history he is uniquely positioned to obtain interviews with all of the central figures in the uplifting story of a football clubs rise and rise. World Rights
OMAN remains at No.1 in the Mainstream on-line bestseller list with sales far exceeding those of any other books. ALWAYS WINNING climbs five places to No. 2 and at No. 3 we have a new entry with JFK: THE SECOND PLOT and at No.4 another new entry with 100 DAYS ON HOLY ISLAND. WARTIME WANDERERS, which has sold consistently well on the web site remains at No.5 and BLAGGERS, a perfect summer read if ever there was one, remains at No.6. THE FILTH is a re-entry at No. 7 followed by PHILOSOPHICAL FOOTBALL at No.8, FIELDS OF FIRE and No.9 and SCOTLAND: A VISUAL JOURNEY at No.10. And Finally...This really is my last newsletter. By the time it goes live I shall have gone on maternity leave. Please contact Lianne Harvey with any queries regarding web marketing and foreign rights. Sharon Atherton and Lindsay Farquharson continue to handle serial rights and all publicity queries. Best wishes |
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CONFESSIONS
OF A SOCIOPATHIC SOCIAL CLIMBER (WHAT KATYA DID NEXT in the UK
and Australia) has just hit No. 15 on the LA Times best-seller list.
The US edition is also No. 15 on German Amazon and No. 77 on French
Amazon.
One
of the lead titles for the Autumn, FRAMED by Tod Volpe, is now
out with several US publishers and we are expecting an offer this week.