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News 7 February 2006
New Acquisition:
Mainstream is delighted to announce the acquisition of WHO OWNS THE WORLD by Kevin Cahill. It is the first book to examine landownership across the entire planet since written records began and is the result of years of research. This unique survey, recording details of the largest current and historic landowners, covers every country and territory in the world. Kevin Cahill originated the Sunday Times Rich List and is the author of THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE RICH and WHO OWNS BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Mainstream will publish in November 2006. World rights are available. For further information contact fiona.brownlee@mainstreampublishing.com
Rights:
Rights sales have started well in 2006. Since the end of the year we have sold North American rights for BOXING'S HALL OF SHAME and UNDEFEATED to Greystone Books; Canadian rights for THE ABODE OF LOVE to Goose Lane Editions; KATHY'S STORY to Taiwan (Commercial Press), MASTERS OF THE BAIZE to Romania (Asab Grub); THE ROAD TO HARRY'S BAR to Poland (Studio Filmowe Montevideo); ROSSLYN AND THE HOLY GRAIL to Turkey (Truva) and UNLOCKING THE SOLOMON KEY to Bulgaria (Prozoretz).
Publicity:
The interest in the subject of WHO OWNS THE WORLD is massive. The author has already been interviewed on BBC2 and BBC Radio 4 and been invited to lecture at the RSA in June which is indicative of the amount of interest we will get when the book is actually published.
On the current list we are getting some great coverage for MAN INTERRUPTED and THE PLAYERS.
Hilary Spurling, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year, reviewed MAN INTERRUPTED in the Daily Telegraph saying:
'explore(s) with honesty and courage gulfs of pain and fear beyond the thin skin of normality that separate us all from disintegration and collapse'.
In addition there has been a review in Lads Mag and numerous regional press and radio interviews.
Colin Hayday, author of THE PLAYERS, was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends on Saturday 4 February. One of his fellow guests was Kathleen Turner.....anyone want to place a bet on whether he asked her to play the diamond seller in the film?!
We have had some terrific pre pub quotes for Walter Ellis's memoir, THE BEGINNING OF THE END:
'Walter Ellis's memoir is scathing and raunchy, fresh as a fight. In the best literary tradition of the “unreliable narrator" as truth- teller, he gives us the means to judge him any way we choose - and, in added value, he traces the veins and arteries in one rarely uncovered limb of Irish culture, roaring Loyalist Protestantism. This is a pacy, mischievously enjoyable gulp of a book' - Frank Delaney
'Penetrating, poignant, savvy and very, very funny: a sardonic minor masterpiece' - David McKittrick, Ireland correspondent for The Independent and author of LOST LIVES
'Glittering with insight and suffused with warmth, this is a painlessly honest account of the turmoil and farce of the Troubles. Very Belfast and dead easy to read' - Eamonn McCann, activist and journalist; author of the classic WAR AND AN IRISH TOWN
Irshad Manji author of THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM TODAY was interviewed in the Sunday Times Magazine 'Life in the Day' at the end of January coinciding with the TV documentary about gay muslims.
And Finally...
Bon Voyage to editor, Kevin O'Brien, who escaped the bitter cold of Scotland for some Australian sun at the beginning of February.
We are all very envious!