News 28 November 2007

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Mainstream is delighted to have acquired rights to SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME by Izzy Hammond. Following in the vein of the international bestseller DON'T EVER TELL, which has been in the UK bestseller list since publication in May and sold throughout the world, Someone to Watch Over Me is the memoir of a woman who has survived against all odds. To the outside world Izzy's deaf and partially blind parents were the subjects of sympathy but inside the family home Izzy was the subject of vicious abuse. In Someone To Watch Over Me, Izzy is now able to reveal how the horrific childhood abuse she suffered, first at the hands of her father and then by subsequent predators, cast a shadow over three generations of her family. Her story is anything but one of bitter self-pity; it is one of a remarkable woman's indomitable spirit in the face of an evil which affects every strata of society. Finally able to break the cycle, she has at last reclaimed a life free from the demons that for so long have haunted her. Bill Campbell bought world rights. Mainstream will publish in May 2007 accompanied by a major marketing campaign. DON'T EVER TELL has sold over 250,000 copies and we anticipate that SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME will be equally successful. For further information contact fiona.brownlee@mainstreampublishing.com

RIGHTS DEALS: One of our lead titles for 2007, SINCE I WAS A PRINCESS, has been sold to Luebbe in Germany. They published Jacqueline Pascarl's first book, ONCE I WAS A PRINCESS. A-Z OF ATLANTIS and A-Z OF EGYPT have been sold to Patakis Publishers in Greece who will also be publishing Simon Cox's long awaited, UNLOCKING THE SOLOMON KEY.UK bestseller, DON'T EVER TELL, has been sold to Editions L'Archipel in France.Backlist title, MR NASTY, has been sold to Sinisukk in Estonia. It has now been published in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Poland and The NetherlandsAudio rights for BATTERSEA GIRL have been sold to Isis Publishing. BELIEVE was extracted in The Edinburgh Evening News from Tuesday 14 - Saturday 17 June and will be followed by ads in the paper in the run up to Christmas. The resulting sales lift has been extraordinary.THE BOOK OF ASHES ANECDOTES was extracted in The Sunday Telegraph cricketing supplement on 26 November accompanied by a large ad for the book.

Bestsellers:

EVERY SINGLE BALL by Brian Corcoran has shot in at No.2 in the Irish paperback non-fiction bestseller list, kept from the top spot only by the book of Irish Driving Test Theory! Both THE SHERIFF and DON'T EVER TELL are also in the Irish bestseller list and DON'T EVER TELL remains in the Top 20 of the UK bestseller list after 27 weeks in the charts!PRESS: Kevin Cahill, author of WHO OWNS THE WORLD has done the following interviews
ESQUIRE (on sale 10 November); MAIL ON SUNDAY (19 November);THE SUN; PA NEWS;
THE DAILY RECORD; EVENING STANDARD; THE GUARDIAN; THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (confirmed review); REUTERS; THE MIRROR.
CHARLIE COOKE
THE TIMES ran an interview with Charlie on Monday 20 November
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY- interview 8/10/06
DAILY MAIL- review 9/10/06
SAUDI BABYLON
THE NEWS OF THE WORLD ran a 2 page interview with Sandy Hollingsworth on 29 October.
THE SHERIFF
ICE Magazine - interview with Gerry O'Carroll 15 November 2006
SOUTH WALES ECHO - serial ran 27 & 28 October 2006
SUNDAY TIMES (Ireland) - interview 12 November 2006
SHARPY
THE NEWS OF THE WORLD - competition being run 26/11/06
LIVERPOOL ECHO- brief mention 28/10/06 & 2 page feature 2/11/06
EVERTONIAN MAGAZINE - interview with Graham to appear December
DENIABLE AGENT
DAILY MAIL- review 13/10/06

COLIN BELL
An interview with Colin Bell appeared in THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 12 November 2007.TV AND RADIO:Kevin Cahill, author of WHO OWNS THE WORLD, has been interviewed on Channel 4 News and will be on the Simon Mayo Show, Radio 5 on 27 November.Sharpy has been interviewed on Sky TV; BBC Radio 5 Live - Eamon Holmes Show, Talksport - Alan Brazil, BBC Radio Merseyside - Billy Butler Show, BBC Radio Wales, Radio Kerry Sport, Liverpool Independent stations: Radio City, Century 105, Juice FMMark Ring, author of THE RINGMASTER was interviewed on ITV Wales on 13 November The BBC's flagship drama series, The State Within started on Thursday 2 November on BBC1 at 9pm. A six-part action-packed thriller it is very obviously based on Craig Murray, author of MURDER IN SAMARKAND. Like Murray, one of the characters, James Sinclair, is a former British Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of "Tyrgizstan", sacked for his opposition to human rights abuses there in the War on Terror, and now ostracised by the British establishment. The series concludes on 14 December.Trevor White, author of KITCHEN CON, has been interviewed for a show on ITV to go out early next year. Good Morning Scotland (BBC Radio Scotland) interviewed Euan Macpherson 20/11/06 in anticipation of the Channel 5 documentary about the Ripper on the 21st. Bizarrely, although Euan wasn't mentioned in the TV programme the jacket of his book, THE TRIAL OF JACK THE RIPPER, got several blatant plugs.

Events:

Steven McLaughlin, author of SQUADDIE, has been invited by Michael Grade, Chairman of
the BBC, to attend the 31st BBC recording of the annual Richard Dimbleby
lecture on 6 December. The topic being discussed is the 'Defence of the realm in the 21st
century', and the chief speaker is General Sir Mike Jackson. He will be amongst a strictly invited guest list made up of prominent pro and anti war media figures.McLaughlin will be doing his fourth signing for Borders in Preston in the run up to Christmas.Colin Berry will be signing copies of his book THE DENIABLE AGENT on Saturday 9 December from 12-1pm at Waterstones, Bishop's Stortford.

Everton football legend, Sharpy, will doing the following signings for his autobiography:
Thursday 23 November, Waterstones, Birkenhead 12-1pm
Friday 8 December, Wardleworths Bookshop, Crosby,1-2pm
Thursday 14th December, Pritchards, Crosby, 12-1pmChelsea legend, Charlie Cooke, will be visiting the UK from America to do the following events:
Tuesday, 5 December, Chelsea FC Megastore. 3-5pm
Wednesday, 6 December, Waterstones Slough, 12-1pm
Thursday, 7 December, Books etc. Canary Wharf 1pm
Thursday, 7 December, Waterstones Kingston-Upon-Thames, 6.30-7.30pm
Friday, 8 December, TBS Distribution Centre, Colchester, CO7 7DW. 11-1pm
Saturday, 9 December, Waterstones Putney, 11-12pm
Saturday, 9th December, Borders Express Fulham, 3-4pm
Sunday, 10th December, Chelsea FC Megastore, 11-1pmHibs legend, Eddie Turnbull, will be signing copies of his autobiography at Waterstones, Ocean Terminal, 11am-12pm prior to the Hibs / Celtic match at home at 2pm on 26 November.Barry Ferguson will be signing copies of BLUE at Easons in Belfast on Wedneday, 27th November from 12:30. Peter Mortimer has been invited to give a talk and reading from BROKE THROUGH BRITAIN at an event organised by Poetry Next to the Sea Festival in Wells, Norfolk, on Sunday, November 26.The launch for BELIEVE by Mark Donaldson on Monday 20 November was a great success.

And Finally...

The lovely Lindsay Knox (Farquharson) will be going on maternity leave at the end of the year heralding a restructuring of the Publicity Department. Publicity Director, Sharon Atherton (Campbell) will now handle serial and long lead magazines. Publicity for all titles will be split between our newly appointed Publicity Manager, Fiona Atherton (starting 3 January) and Victoria Bonnar.