Customer News October 2004

Welcome to the Mainstream customer newsletter.

• New bestseller list. The top two bestsellers MOUNTAIN BIKE FITNESS TRAINING and McRAE'S BATTALION are available at £1 off p&p free this month
• News of further discounts. We always take £1 off books which are serialised or the subject of major interviews in national newspapers in magazines. Here is a list of on-line discounts to look out for!
• News of our latest releases including FLESH AND BLOOD by Diane Blood and THE KING AND I by Herbert Breslin
• News of new signings including KATHY'S STORY, a tragic first person account of growing up within the horrors of the Magdalen Laundries. We have just sold rights to Harper Collins Australia for a substantial five-figure sum

As you have bought from us in the past and are clearly a book lover I hope that you don't mind my writing to you but if you do just click the link below or type unsubscribe in the subject header and send this e-mail winging it's way back to us.

That said you must check the bestseller list first to see if your purchase has influenced it.

Leading the latest bestseller list by several laps is MOUNTAIN BIKE FITNESS TRAINING though it looks as though it will be knocked from the top spot by WE ARE TOTTENHAM when the new bestseller list is released next month.

On-line bestsellers are frequently driven by links from other web sites and in both those instances that is the case. We appreciate your following links to visit our site!

At No.2 McCRAE'S BATTALION is a perennial bestseller remained a consistent bestseller since it was first published in October 2003.

It was still no.1 on our Scottish bestseller list when the paperback edition was published in September 2004!

 

Other bestsellers include THE BARNSLEY WHALE, RIDING HIGH, IRISH, WITH FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES, SOLDIER FIVE, HOOLIGAN WARS, NEW DEVELOPMENTS FOR MS SUFFERERS and THE ZODIAC CODE series. To see the full bestseller list complete with jacket images and reviews please click here.

Books which have been serialised or featured in the national press are automatically discounted by £1 for on-line shoppers. Bargains to look out for this month include 1001 NIGHTS WITHOUT SEX by Suzanne Schlosberg, THE REAL MACKAY by Dave Mackay, THE REAL NUREYEV by Carolyn Soutar, DANCING IN THE SEA by Catherine Hill; FLESH AND BLOOD by Diane Blood; LANCASHIRE: WHERE WOMEN DIE OF LOVE by Charles Nevin; THE KING AND I by Herbert Breslin and AMONGST THE MARINES by Steven Preece.

FLESH AND BLOOD, The Human Story Behind the Headlines, DANCING IN THE SEA, After the Hijack Was Over and THE KING AND I, The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager Friend and Sometime Adversary Herbert Breslin have probably commanded the most column inches of all Mainstream titles published this year. You may have seen FLESH AND BLOOD in the Sunday Times, Guardian, Hello, The Express and Red magazine; DANCING IN THE SEA in the Mail on Sunday, Sunday Times, News of the World, Independent and Red magazine and THE KING AND I in the Mail on Sunday, Independent and Sunday Times plus all authors have done various TV and radio interviews. I sometimes worry that the credit at the end of press features only mention 'mainstream' which must bring up several thousand entries on google so thank you for making the effort to track us down!

The publication list for Spring 2005 is already finalised and one to look out for is KATHY'S STORY, the horrific memoir of a woman who survived the Magdalen Laundries, the Catholic children's homes made famous by Peter Mullan's film the Magdalen Sisters. Publishers all over the world are clamouring for rights and we have just sold rights to Harper Collins Australia for a substantial five-figure sum.

I hope you find this newsletter useful. We appreciate your custom and welcome your feedback. Please send any comments to webenquiries@mainstreampublishing.com

With best wishes

Fiona Brownlee
Marketing Director
www.mainstreampublishing.com