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News 4 November 2005
New Acquisition
Mainstream is delighted to have acquired rights to THE DAN BROWN COMPANION by bestselling author Simon Cox. The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons have become publishing phenomena for author Dan Brown. With sales in the tens of millions and with a whole industry having grown up around the novels, a huge following has emerged, determined trace the footsteps of lead character Robert Langdon and to delve deeper into the real mysteries behind the fiction. Simon Cox, bestselling author of Cracking the Da Vinci Code and Illuminating Angels and Demons brings you the definitive guide to these two novels and an invaluable insight to Dan Brown's world: What are the true inspirational stories behind the novels? What were the clues left behind by Leonardo da Vinci in his paintings? Is the Jesus bloodline theory fact or fantasy? Does Angels and Demons reveal clues to real events? What murdered Pope was the inspiration for the plotline? Does a worldwide Illuminati really threaten to create a new world order? Questions are answered and plots are thickened in this must-have guide. An extended gazetteer also guides us to the people and places featured in the novels. Visits to the sites will be made easy with THE DAN BROWN COMPANION. Simon Cox is a renowned researcher, broadcaster and speaker and is Editor in Chief of the DVD-based magazine, DUAT. World rights are available. If you would like to see a manuscript please contact Karen.brodie@mainstreampublishing.com
Foreign Rights
Our sub agent, Jan Michael, secured a fantastic sale at Frankfurt for END OF TIME to Uitgeverij de Boekerij in the Netherlands.
Serial Rights
An extract of THE LAST MAN ACROSS THE ATLANTIC will run in The Times next week.
Publicity
Many of our titles have been receiving terrific reviews:
DONALD DEWAR: The first First Minister
'"Wendy Alexander has gathered a marvellous and eclectic team
of (unpaid) contributors to produce a really splendid book about Donald Dewar,
a book that constantly manages to be both warm and realistic" The
Herald
'"The book investigates just about every nook and cranny of Dewar's personal and political life from his boyhood through to his life as a dedicated constituency MP, minister and eventually First Minister. The tale is told with fondness, and from some of the contributors, with an honesty that was not always apparent, as is so often the case, in the immediate period of his death." The Times
"SCOTTISH
EXODUS is a compelling, thoughtful, witty and beautifully written
book. It is Hunter's best for at least a decade." The Scotsman
BATTLING JACK was the Independent on Sunday's Book of the Week on 23 October.
YOU CAN CALL ME STAN is the Sunday Mail's football book of the year.
Events
Some great events have been lined up for our authors over the coming week:
Pete May will be signing copies of his book, HAMMERS IN THE HEART, at Newham Book Shop in London at 1pm on 5 November.
On
the same day Jim Telfer will be signing copies of JIM TELFER: LOOKING BACK…FOR ONCE at
WHSmith in Galashiels from 11am to 12pm. He will be in WHSmith, Hawick
from 1pm to 2pm on 10 November.
AWARDS
Two Mainstream titles are nominated in the Mountain Literature category in the Banff Mountain Book Festival awards. ROCK AND ROLL MOUNTAINS by Graham Forbes and WITH FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES by Malcolm Slesser have been selected as finalists from a record number of entries from eight different countries.
DRAGONS AND ALL BLACKS by Hugh Richards is among six titles to be shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. The winner will be announced on 21 November.
And Finally...
The Buchreport Paperback Non-Fiction bestseller
list, used by the weekly German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, has
listed UNLOCKING THE SOLOMON KEY by Simon Cox at number
50. This is incredible news, particularly as the book is not scheduled
for publication until October 2006.