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O'Flanagan's BAD BEHAVIOUR breaks into the UK Top 5
Posted: May 9, 2008
We are delighted to announce that Headline's mass market paperback edition of BAD BEHAVIOUR has stormed into this week's BookScan chart at number 5.
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Henrietta Rose-Innes once again shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing!
Posted: May 8, 2008
Henrietta Rose-Innes' short story POISON has made it onto the shortlist for this year's "African Booker" alongside four other authors from South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria and Malawi. The £10,000 Caine prize will be awarded in July to the best short story in English by an African writer. Henrietta is also the author of two novels: SHARK'S EGG and THE ROCK ALPHABET.
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Carol Lefevre's NIGHTS IN THE ASYLUM has won the Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers
Posted: May 7, 2008
Also on the shortlist for this $20,000 Australian prize were Gail Jones (shortlisted for this year's Orange Prize) and Mireille Juchau. NIGHTS IN THE ASYLUM is published by Picador in the UK and Random in Australia and was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Australian region. http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/culturediversity/writersprize/2008/shortlists/
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Nathalie Abi-Ezzi's A GIRL MADE OF DUST to El Aleph after pre-empt for Spanish rights
Posted: May 6, 2008
After deals in the UK, where Fourth Estate will publish in July, and in Italy, where Mondadori is publishing this book with cross-over potential under their Junior Bestsellers imprint, Spanish rights in Nathalie Abi-Ezzi's beautiful debut novel A GIRL MADE OF DUST just sold to El Aleph during the recent London Book Fair.
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NOT DEAD ENOUGH nominated for Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2008
Posted: April 25, 2008
NOT DEAD ENOUGH - the third book in Peter James' Roy Grace series - has been selected as one of twenty longlisted titles in the running for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2008.
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Andy Briggs at the London Book Fair
Posted: April 18, 2008
From The Bookseller:
Heroes and villains: children's author Andy Briggs (left) with agent Julian Friedmann. Briggs has just returned from a two-week trip to Los Angeles pitching the sale of film rights to his children's series Hero.Com and Villain.Net, to be published by Oxford University Press in June. Briggs said he had a "phenomenal response" from film companies and expects offers. Meanwhile, at the Fair, auctions for US, French and German rights are underway for the series, which will be featured in Waterstone's book of the month offer and as one of WH Smith's super lead titles.
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More good news for our hero Max Gordon and the riveting DANGER ZONE series!
Posted: April 1, 2008
THE DEVIL'S BREATH by David Gilman, the first title in the DANGER ZONE series, has been shortlisted for the Cumbria School Library Service's Spellbinding Award. Earlier it was also nominated for the Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for the Manchester Book Award, and picked for the government's recommended reading list for boys!
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London Book Fair Podcast Series
Posted: February 28, 2008 You can listen now to Julian Friedmann being interviewed on the complexities of the negotiation process when selling options to adapt a book to film. Julian will also be speaking at this year's London Book Fair. Read details -
HERO.COM Waterstone's Book Of The Month
Posted: February 28, 2008
Andy Briggs's new young adult series Hero.Com and anti-series Villain.Net have been selected as Waterstone's Book of the Month choice for 9-12 year olds in June 2008.
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3 Blake Friedmann titles shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2008
Posted: February 13, 2008 Carol Lefevre's NIGHTS IN THE ASYLUM, Zakes Mda's CION, and Indra Sinha's ANIMAL'S PEOPLE have all been shortlisted for this year's Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Blake Friedmann is represented in 3 of its 4 geographical categories: South East Asia & South Pacific (NIGHTS IN THE ASYLUM -- Best First Book), Africa (CION -- Best Book), and Europe & South Asia (ANIMAL'S PEOPLE -- Best Book). The books in each region were chosen from an impressive list of 320 entries. Read details
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