Two-book deal with Blanvalet for Margie Orford’s DADDY'S GIRL and THE QUARRY, as DADDY’S GIRL is launched in Cape Town
October 8, 2009
DADDY'S GIRL, Orford's third novel and the prequel to the Clare Hart thriller series, was launched by Jonathan Ball at Kalk Bay Books in Cape Town on Saturday 3 October (click here for more information), with a second event at the Book Lounge on Wednesday 7 October (click here for a picture). This comes as German publishers Blanvalet bought DADDY'S GIRL as well as THE QUARRY, the fourth book in the series, in a two-book deal.Margie Orford's gripping novels are sold in France, Germany, Holland, Russia, Spain and the Czech Republic. In South Africa her new publishers Jonathan Ball have re-issued her first two novels LIKE CLOCKWORK and BLOOD ROSE, as well as publishing her latest book, DADDY'S GIRL. In the UK, Atlantic published LIKE CLOCKWORK earlier this year, and will bring out BLOOD ROSE in March of next year.
Film rights to BLOOD ROSE have been optioned to a London-based South African film-making team Malcolm Kohll and Robert Fig, with Kohll adapting the novel and Fig set to executive produce (click here for more information).
'Margie Orford, South Africa's queen of crime writing...'
-- Mail & Guardian
Praise for DADDY'S GIRL:
'Margie Orford is guilty of writing a very, very good thriller. Sophisticated plotting, great characters, raw emotions, a satisfying resolution, respectful of, but not slavish to, the genre.'
-- John Maytham, (Cape Talk radio host and critic)
For excerpts from DADDY'S GIRL, click here.