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Gareth May on 120 Things Every Man Should Know
Gareth May is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
For all boys and young men who've outgrown their 'Dangerous Book' and need to grow up, this is the essential instruction manual for young men everywhere.
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Evie Wyld on After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
Evie is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Set in eastern Australia, this beautifully realised debut tells a story of fathers and sons, their wars, and things they will never know about each other.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224088874
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Robert Hudson on The Kilburn Social Club
June - December 2009
Robert is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
'The Kilburn Social Club' is a story of love, idealism and identity in something like modern, multicultural Britain. For sceptics and sports-lovers alike, it is neither cynical about what makes fans tick nor devoted to further puffing football's absurd self-image.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224085840
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Philip Sington on The Einstein Girl
June - December 2009
Philip is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
'The Einstein Girl' is a gripping and atmospheric historical thriller set in Berlin in 1932, inspired by documents recently discovered about Einstein's family.
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Jonathan Tulloch on A Winding Road
June - December 2009
Jonathan is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Jonathan Tulloch's novel examines madness and creativity, love and destruction, the painting of a picture and the lust to own.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224071149
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David Szalay on The Innocent
June - December 2009
David is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
David Szalay, winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2008, returns with a searing work of acute realism and bleak beauty set in Communist Russia.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224081578
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Chloe Aridjis on Book of Clouds
June - December 2009
Lisa is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
'Book of Clouds' is a haunting, curious and exquisitely-written debut novel about a young woman adrift in Berlin, where a string of fateful encounters leads to romance, violence and revelation.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0701184256
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Hephzibah Anderson on Chastened
June - December 2009
Hephzibah is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Chastened is a witty look at twenty-first-century sex as Hephzibah Anderson seeks to resurrect romance during a year long adventure in chastity.
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Ewan Morrison on Menage
June - December 2009
Menage is the third novel from the acclaimed author of 'Swung' - his most ambitious and impressive book yet.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224084402
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Elaine di Rollo on A Proper Education for Girls
June - December 2009
Elaine is available for library events.
For more information, click on continue reading.
'A Proper Education for Girls' is a rollicking story of twin sisters and their fight for freedom, set in 1857.
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William Fotheringham on Fallen Angel
June - December 2009
Claire is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Fallen Angel is the remarkable biography of the 'most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century' by the acclaimed autho of 'Put Me Back on my Bike'
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224074474
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Sarah Herman on I Like My Job
London and South East
Sarah is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
I Like My Job is an hilarious graphic novel about office life.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=022408576X
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Jojo Tulloh on Freshly Picked
June - December 2009
Jojo is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Freshly Picked is a thing of beauty - gorgeously designed and illustrated and bursting with delicious recipes, it will be irresistible to anyone interested in food.
For more information, see:
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Joanna Simmons and Jay Curtis on Can I Give Them Back Now?
June - December 2009
Jay and Joanna are available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Can I Give Them Back Now? is a must have for all new parents - a laugh-out-loud book about the darker moments of parenthood.
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Jeremy Whittle on Bad Blood
June - December 2009
Jeremy is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Shortlisted for William Hill's Sports Book of the Year 2008, Badd Blood is an insiders account of ten years following the Tour de France and the scandal and intrigue that went with it.
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Brian Thompson on The Widow's Secret
June - December 2009
Bella Wallis is a charismatic Victorian widow with a sideline in sensationalist novels and a determination to seek revenge in print for what can never be achieved in real life.
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Brian Thompson on The Captain's Table
June - December 2009
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Bella Wallis returns in a scintillating new episode from prizewinning author Brian Thompson
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Benedict Gummer on The Scourging Angel
June - December 2009
Benedict is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
The Scourging Angel is the definitive account of the Black Death in the British Isles.
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Xinran on China Witness
June - December 2009
Xinran is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.
Xinran's magnificent and groundbreaking work of oral history reveals the secret history of 20th-century China.
For more information, see:
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Peter Beaumont on The Secret Life of War
June - December 2009
Peter is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
The Secret Life of War is a defining book about the experience of conflict, for those living through it and those reporting it, distilled from a decade and a half on the world's frontlines.
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Patricia Nicol on Sucking Eggs
June - December 2009
Patricia is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.
With this clever, solourful, comparative history, Patricia Nicol shows us that, when it comes to being green, resourceful and eco-friendly, our grannies can show us the way!
For more information, see:
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Matt Haig on The Possession of Mr. Cave
June - December 2009
Matt is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
The Possession of Mr. Cave is a dark, disturbing novel about a man who loves his child too much.
For more information, see:
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Kevin Sampson on Awaydays
June - December 2009
Kevin is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
Awaydays has been made into a major film, which is due for release in 2009. Set in 1979, the novel revolves around Paul Carty, his mystical, Joy Division-loving friend Elvis and The Pack, a mob of violent Tranmere Rovers supporters.
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Iain Pears on Stone's Fall
June - December 2009
Iain is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
Stone's Fall marks the long-awaited return of one of our great historical thriller writers and rivals his international bestseller 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.
For more information, see:
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Helen Carr on The Verse Revolutionaries
June - December 2009
Helen is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
The Verse Revolutionaries traces the interactions, love affairs and quarrels of the Imagists (a colourful group of poets in London before the First World War).
For more information, see:
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David Aaronovitch on Voodoo Histories
June - December 2009
David is available for large venue library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
In this entertaining and enlightening book, Aaranovitch explores and explodes a dozen of the major conspiracy theories. In doing so, he examines why people believe them and makes an argument for a truer, purer form of scepticism.
For more information, see:
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Adam Foulds on The Quickening Maze
June - December 2009
Adam is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
Based on real events in Epping Forest, The Quickening Maze centres on the incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare.
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James Hawes on My Little Armalite
June - December 2009
James is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
Set in the world that he has made his own - that of middle-class Englishmen struggling with the mortgage, low self-esteem and dreams of sash windows - My Little Armalite finds Hawes at his sharpest and funniest.
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Laura Fish on Strange Music
June - December 2009
Laura is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.
In Strange Music, Laura Fish's ambitious and captivating novel, three very different women struggle for freedom.
For more information, see:
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Derbyshire Literature Festival
1st June - 14th June 2010
A 2 week biennial literature festival held in a range of venues (including many libraries) round Derbyshire and aiming at audiences of all ages.
www.derbyshire.gov.uk/festival
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Autumn events in Hammersmith & Fulham
21st Sept to end of October
Authors wanted!
If you are promoting a book in the autumn, I would love to hear from you.
Locations are Hammersmith Library and Fulham Library and also the new Shepherds Bush Library in the Westfields shopping centre. For the latter, I am looking to have some of the events confirmed by early July, for external publicity.
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Organised Fun Activity Packs
June - October 2009
We are offering you a complete guide to running your own Organised Fun sessions this summer holiday, it contains games instructions, tips and advice from author Josie and a press release for spreading the word about your own Organised Fun session. We also have a number of games samplers to supplement the sessions.
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Hops and Glory posters and samplers
June - September 2009
We are giving away a number of chapter samplers and posters for Hops and Glory by Pete Brown - Britian's no.1 beer and ale writer.
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RACE TO THE POLE POSTERS
June - August 2009
We are giving away some limited edition A2 posters featuring the top ten bestselling book Race to the Pole
TV presenter Ben Fogle and Olympic gold medal winner James Cracknell are back, but this time with a book about their epic race to the South Pole. This book also coincides with the forthcoming BBC documentary On Thin Ice
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Douglas Jackson - author talk
Monday 7th September, 2.30pm.
A talk by Douglas Jackson, the author of "Caligula".
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Authors' Day at Milngavie Library
Sat 5th Sept 2009
Margaret Elphinstone, Laura Marney, Richard Mason and Alan Bissett will talk about their latest books.
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Burns Song Recital
Thursday 3rd September, 8.00pm
A Burns song recital by Ross Sharkey (tenor) and Peter Yardley-Jones (keyboards)
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Robert Crawford - author talk
Saturday 8th August - 2.30pm
Robert Crawford will talk about his biography of Robert Burns, and will read from his poetry.
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John Connolly - author talk
Tuesday 21st July
A talk by John connolly on Tuesday 21st July at 3.00pm. Brookwood Library, 166 Drymen Road, Bearsden
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Russell Miller on The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle
Sept 2009 - March 2010
The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle is the definitive biography of an enduringly fascinating figure, told with panache and full of new material unavailable to any previous biographers.http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1844139220
Russell is available for library events and talks to reading groups.
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Ian Mortimer on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Sept 2009 - Feb 2010
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England is an original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a 'completely different world': England in the Middle Ages.
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224079948
Ian is available for library events and talks to reading groups.
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Janice Galloway on Collected Stories
Sept - Dec 2009
Comprising stories from her debut collection, 'Blood', and the critically acclaimed 'Where You Find It' - this collection presents some of the best known and most loved works by one of Scotland's 'most gifted and talented writers' (Times Literary Supplement). http://www.rbooks.co.uk/search_results.aspx?search=janice%20galloway%20&bic=
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Michael Holroyd on A Strange Eventful History
Sept 2009 - March 2010
A major literary event from 'one of the greatest biographers of our age'. http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099497182
Michael is available for library events and talks to reading groups.
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Christopher Kelly on Attila The Hun
Sept 2009 - Feb 2010
Known to the Romans as 'the Scourge of God', Attila himself and his crucial role in the fall of Rome are vividly recreated in this brilliant and compelling account.
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1844139158
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Discuss Paying For It online with author Tony Black
3rd Aug, 7pm
Paying For It author Tony Black is looking forward to discussing his book with reading groups. Register now to join us on 27th July, 7pm:
http://www.rchatrandom.co.uk/
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Janette Jenkins on Angel of Brooklyn
Sept - Dec 2009
Acclaimed writer Janette Jenkins brings us an ambitious and tragic tale of love and war, which shows the past can never be forgotten...
Janette is available for library events and talks with reading groups.
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Tim Harris on Players
Sept - Dec 2009
The men, women and animals who created the world of sport - a companion piece to the superlative 'Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know'
Tim is available for library events and talks to reading groups.
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224082779
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Nicky Haslam on Redeeming Features
Oct 2009 - Jan 2010
Redeeming Features is a dazzling and witty account of his frenetic life - from the '50s to the present - in London, the souht of France, New York, Arizona and Los Angeles, in a crowd of friends and acquaintances that includes virtually all of the cultural icons of our time.
Nicky is available for library events and talks to reading groups. For more information go to
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224089714
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Helen Simpson on In-Flight Entertainment
Sept 2009 - Feb 2010
'A masterful contemporary exponent of the genre. Simpson now deserves to be compared with Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro.' - Observer
Helen is available for library events and talks to reading groups. For more information go to
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224089641
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Bryan Talbot on Grandville
Sept 2009 - Feb 2010
Inspired by the work of nineteenth-century French illustrator Gérard (who worked under the pseudonym 'Grandville') this steampunk masterpiece tells ths story of detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard as he stalks a gang of murderers through the heart of Belle Epoque Paris.
Bryan is available for library events and talks to reading groups. For more information go to http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224084887
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Alison Weir on The Lady in the Tower
Sept 2009 - Feb 2010
A compelling story of the last days of one of history's most charismatic, controversial and tragic heroines - Anne Boleyn.
Alison is available for library events and talks to reading groups. For more information go to
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224063197
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Tim Dee on The Running Sky
Sept 2009 - Feb 2010
The Running Sky is an extraordinary and inspiring book about a lifetime of observing birds.
Tim is available for library events and talks to reading groups.
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Sara Wheeler on The Magnetic North
Sept 2009 - Feb 2010
Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, Sara Wheeler uncovers the brutal reality of the Arctic in The Magnetic North.
Sara is available for library events and talks to reading groups.
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Ian Jack on The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain
Sept - Dec 2009
In this selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack takes us to a place of which there are now only memories and ruins; but is that of a country whose residual presence can still be found in the strangest corners of the world.
Ian is available for library events and talks to reading groups.
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224087355
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Brian Keenan on I'll Tell Me Ma
Sept - Dec 2009
I'll Tell Me Ma is a boyhood memoir from the author of 'An Evil Cradling'. Brian is available for library events and talks to reading groups. For more information, go to
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224062166
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Child psychologist Maureen Myant explores themes of separation and loss in children explored in her new novel The Search
Sept - Dec 2009
The book has already received 5 star reviews from reading groups which will be published in NewBooks Mag. The Search is defintely the book that everybody loves.
The author lives in Scotland but she is will to travel the country. Fore more information, please click on the following link: http://www.almabooks.co.uk/the-search-p-338-book.html
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'The Very Thought of You' is a coming-of-age novel with a love story at its heart, and Rosie Alison will talk about the child witness in fiction
July - Oct 2009
Anyone who loved L.P. Hartley's THE GO-BETWEEN or Ian McEwan's ATONEMENT will fall for this extraordinary coming-of-age novel.
Rosie lives in London but she is prepared to travel to any location for events and talks to reading groups.
To read more about this novel, please click on the following link:
http://www.almabooks.co.uk/the-very-thought-of-you-p-320-book.html
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Peter Doggett on You Never Give Me Your Money
Sept 2008 - Feb 2009
Unique and original, You Never Give Me Your Money is the most important book about The Beatles since Ian MacDonald's 'Revolution in the Head'.
Peter is available for library events and talks to reading groups.
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Ian Mortimer on 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory
Sept - Dec 2009
In 1415: Hnery V's Year of Glory, this celebrated and bestselling medieval biographer turns his pen to King Henry V and the legendary battle of Agincourt.
For more information, see: http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224079921
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Irving Kirsch on The Emperor's New Drugs
Sept - Dec 2009
The Emperor's New Drugs is a journey of discovery and an exposé of the pharmaceutical industry.
For more information see: http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1847920837
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Nigerian author Kachi A. Ozumba to talk about his new book The Shadow of a Smile
Sept - Dec 2009
Based on true facts and on author's personal experience at the hands of corrupt officials in Nigeria, The Shadow of a Smile offers a dark and humorous picture of Nigeria, a country striving to consolidate democracy after years of dictatorship and tribal in-fighting
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Havering Book Festival
12th Oct - 24th Oct
Havering, East London, are hosting a Book Festival 12th Oct - 24th Oct. We are looking to put on a number of events for all ages. We have recently hosted a very successful event with Jo Brand and Liza Tarbuck, pulling in an audience of 300. If you want to follow in Jo Brand's footsteps please contact us - we will amke you very welcome!!
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Silks posters and bookmarks available
June and July 2009
Posters and bookmarks available for SILKS, the new paperback from bestselling author DICK FRANCIS and his son Felix.
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Proofs of Historical Novels for Reading Groups
June and July 2009
We are offering packs of (imperfect) proofs of our six new historical novels published in the first half of 2009. All the books have been well received by reviewers. One of them (The Sins of the Father by Catherine Hanley) is an Editor's Choice for the August 2009 edition of the Historical Novels Review and two will be in the July 2009 selection for the People's Book Prize. To find out more about the books, please visit http://www.quaestor2000.com
Packs will be sent on a "first-come-first-served" basis.
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Reading group proof selection available
June - July 2009
Pan Macmillan are offering a limited number of packs containing a selection of proofs ideal for reading groups. Packs will include:
Underwater - Elizabeth Diamond
The Crying Tree - Naseem Rakha
In the Heart of the Canyon - Elisabeth Hyde
Carry Me Home - Terri Wiltshire
Packs will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
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Various proofs available
June - July 2009
you're interested in receiving any, please contact
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Saga newsletters available
June - July 2009
Pan Macmillan have a good sized quantity of Issue 2 of our TALES FROM THE HEART newsletter to give away.
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Guernica samplers available
June - July 2009
Samplers available for GUERNICA by Dave Boling - a Richard & Judy Summer Read.
An epic love story set against the backdrop of the destruction of the Basque village of Guernica.
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Posters and bookmarks available - Ann Cleeves
June - July 2009
Posters and bookmarks available for WHITE NIGHTS by Ann Cleeves.
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Christie Dickason proofs available for reading groups
June - July 2009
Harper Collins has a limited number of proofs available of Christie Dickason's historical novel THE KING'S DAUGHTER on offer to reading groups. Don't delay in requesting your copies today!
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Proofs available for reading groups
June - July 2009
Harper Collins has a limited number of proofs of Tasmina Perry's latest bonkbuster ORIGINAL SIN on offer for book clubs. We are giving away the books on a first come first serve basis, so don't delay in requesting your copies!
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Jeffery Deaver Author Talk
27th July 2009
Jeffery will be speaking about his latest book Roadside Crosses, answering questions and boks will be available to buy and have signed. Tickets cost £3 from the Civic's Box Office
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Chrisite Dickason proofs of 'The Kings Daughter' available.
June - July 2009
Harper Collins has a limited number of proofs available of Christie Dickason's historical novel, 'The King's Daughter'.
We ahve a limited number of proofs available, so don't delay in getting your copies!
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Tasmina Perry 'Original Sin' proofs available
June and July 2009
We have a limited number of proofs available of 'Original Sin' the latest sizzling bonkbuster from the international bestseller, Tasmina Perry.
We are giving away proofs for reading groups on a first come first serve basis, so don't delay!
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Meet Sulaiman Addonia, author of The Consequences of Love
2nd week in June
Sulaiman Addonia is looking forward to discussing his book with you! If your book club is in London, then don't wait and enter our competition to win a personal visit by the author to talk about his book The Consequences of Love in June:
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Bookmarks and samplers available - 50 Ways to Find a Lover
June and July 2009
Chapter samplers and bookmarks available for 50 Ways to Find a Lover, the hilarious debut novel from Lucy-Anne Holmes.
Please note: contains adult content!
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Life of Pi - worldwide readalong!
August 2009
Canongate is running a worldwide readalong of 2002 Man Booker Prize-winner Life of Pi in August 2009. Readers can sign up from now onwards at www.lifeofpi.co.uk
to read the book during August as an individual or within their reading group. This is a great opportunity to bring together people from all over the world through literature.
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Rosie Goodwin
June - December 2009
As a social worker and foster carer Rosie Goodwin has had first-hand experience of the difficulties that some children face growing up. She cared for over a hundred foster children whilst she brought up her own family, and worked in the social services department after completing a teacher training course. She always enjoyed writing, and had her first book published in 2004. Since then her writing career has gone from strength to strength, earlier this year she wrote the first in a series of sequels to some of Catherine Cookson's classic novels.
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New James Kelman paperback available
First come, first served early copies of James Kelman's new paperback Kieron Smith, boy available to reading groups. The book The Times called 'a vibrant, beautiful portrait of childhood'.
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Yaba Badoe on True Murder
August 2009 - January 2010
Yaba is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
'True Murder' is an entrancing debut by an accomplished film-maker.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099523329
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Tom Payne on Fame
August 2009 - January 2010
Tom is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
'Fame' is a fascinating and enlightening account of our relationship with famous people and how it has evolved throughout the ages
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Raphael Honigstein on Englischer Fussball
August 2009 - January 2010
Raphael is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
'Englischer Fussball' is a German's-eye view on our national obsession.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=022408013X
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Paul O'Keeffe on A Genius for Failure
August 2009 - January 2010
Paul is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
A Genius for Failure is a vivid and compelling biography of Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786 - 1846) - historical painter and polemicist, diarist, friend of the famous - and genius.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224062476
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Mathias Malzieu on The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
August and September 2009
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'The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock HEart' is a dark, tender fairytale spiced with devilish humour by French singer Mathias Malzieu.
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Mark Griffiths on The Lotus Quest
August and September 2009
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'The Lotus Quest' is a magical botanical adventure: a writer's journey in search of the mystery of the Lotus, sacred flower of religions from Egypt to Japan.
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Diana Evans on The Wonder
June - December 2009
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From the winner of the inaugural Orange Award for New Writers comes this dazzling new novel about the fight to achieve one's dream and an unsolved disappearance at the heart of a family.
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Stuart Neville on The Twelve
May - July 2009
Stuart Neville is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Set against the backdrop of a post-conflict Northern ireland struggling with its past, 'The Twelve' takes the reader from the back streets of the city to the country's darkest heart.
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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1846552796
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Nicola Keegan on Swimming
July 2009
Nicola is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
This is a debut not to be missed - Nicola Keegan has a new voice in fiction, with a dark edge reminiscent of Lionel Shriver
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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0701182857
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Laura Beatty on Pollard
July 2009
Laura is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
'Pollard' is an extraordinary debut novel from an exciting, empathic author.
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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099516942
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Karen Armstrong on The Case for God
July 2009
Karen is available for library events. For more information, click continue reading.
The Case fir God is an essentuak book for our times, answering bestselling atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in arguing that faith still has a fundemental role in the modern world.
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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1847920349
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Chris Hannan on Missy
July 2009
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'Missy' is a tale of sex, drugs and the Wild West! The anti-heroine, Dol McQueen, is frank, funny and lovable.
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Sam Miller on Delhi
June and July 2009
Christian is available for library events. For more information, click continue reading.
Delhi is a travel book with a difference - a considered meditation on one man's obsession with one of India's most extraordinary cities.
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Piers Dudgeon on Captivated
June and July 2009
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A wonderful book about the imagination, Captivated explores the astonishing force of its creative power.
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Faiza Guene on Dreams from the Endz
June and July 2009
Faiza is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Dreams from the Endz is the story of problem-laden Ahlème and her return to and eventual reconciliation with her homeland, Algeria.
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Julia Blackburn on The Three of Us
June - December 2009
Julia is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.
A memoir like no other, The Three of Us is a touching and tragic love story about a dysfunctional family.
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Jane Feaver on Love Me Tender
June - September 2009
Jane is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.
An enchanting new book from the author of the highly acclaimed 'According to Ruth': tales of discord and discomfort in a small, rural town.
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Sarah Wise on The Blackest Streets
June - December 2009
Sarah is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.
The Blackest Streets is a brilliant exploration of the 'seedy side of Victorian London' from one of our most talented young historians.
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John Campbell on Pistols at Dawn
June - December 2009
Joe is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
A brilliant book about political rivalries through the ages, from the prize-winning biographer and historian.
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John Campbell on Margaret Thatcher: The Abridged
June - December 2009
John is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
John Campbell's award-winnind two volume biography of Margaret Thatcher has now been edited into one book. It is 'the' poltical biography.
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Andrew Nicoll on The Good Mayor
June - December 2009
Andrew is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
Andrew's new novel is an enchanting, warm-hearted romance à la Joanne Harris, Louis de Bernieres and Alexander McCall Smith.
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chapter sampler giveaway
June - July 2009
We have a number of chapter samplers for a hilarious new book by Tom Fordyce and Ben Dirs to giveaway
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Exclusive KATE MORTON Author Video
Limited number of copies available of this exclusive author video
Kate Morton is the bestselling author of THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON and THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN
Contact proofs@macmillan.co.uk
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Find out more about your favourite authors on AuthorsPlace.co.uk!
Welcome to AuthorsPlace, a new website from The Random House Group. We've invited our authors to create their own unique profile pages on AuthorsPlace, the first of which are now live. Find out more about the authors and their books, read interviews, watch videos, browse picture galleries, and talk to them on their blogs and message board.
There will be more authors signing up with AuthorsPlace every week, so check here regularly to see who's new on the site!
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Proofs available
Proofs available
THE LADY AND THE POET by Maeve Haran
A wonderful historical novel about the passionate love affair between poet John Dunne and Ann More.
Please do get in touch with Pan Macmillan with your feedback on the book.
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Richard Millward
Feb - July 2009
Faber had incredible success with his debut novel, Apples and his second novel, Ten Storey Love Song will be one of their lead titles for 2009. There is a lot of swearing and activities in the book that would make it inappropriate for younger teens, but young adults and the 20 years plus age range will love it.
He is available for events with audiences of 30+
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Joe Stretch on Wildlife
March - August 2009
Joe is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
Viciously funny, brave, challenging and hugely topical, the new novel from Joe Stretch takes us on an unforgettable journey to a frighteningly familiar world. Are you ready?
For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099532077
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Melissa Benn on One of Us
January - December 2009
Melissa is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.
A dramatic, gripping contemporary novel about the dangerous space between family and political life - Antigone for our times...
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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099507994
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Tom Payne on A History of Fame
January - December 2009
Tom is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
A fascinating and enlightening account of our relationship with famous people, and how it has evolved through the ages.
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Sulaiman Addonia on The Consequences of Love
January - December 2009
Sulaiman is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
A gifted young storyteller presents an eye-opening, authentic and terrifying tale of illicit love in Saudi Arabia.
For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099521148
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Colin Grant on Negro with a Hat
January - August 2009
Colin is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
Definitive biography of Marcus Garvey from an exciting and talented new writer
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION.
For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099501457
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Tom Lee on Greenfly
January - December 2009
Tom is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1846551943
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D.J. Taylor on Ask Alice
January - December 2009
D.J. Taylor is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
A wonderful novel of concealment and subterfuge, sweeping from Kansas to London, from 1904 to 1936, by the author of Kept - about a woman's rise and fall, the choices she makes, the chances she takes and the secret which will undo her. For more information see: http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=070118356X
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Sara Stockbridge on Hammer
January - December 2009
Sara is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book.
Meet Grace Hammer - matriarch and jewel thief - on the run in Victorian London in this vigorous and stylish debut by actress Sara Stockbridge. For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0701182237
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Caroline Moorhead in Dancing to The Precipice
January - December 2009
Caroline is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book.
For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=070117904X
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Brian Chikwava on Harare North
January - December 2009
Brian is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
In this astonishing, revelatory original debut, Caine Prize winner Brian Chikwava tackles head-on the realities of life as a refugee. For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224086111
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Tim Thornton on The Alternative Hero
January - December 2009
Tim is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
The Alternative Hero is that rare gem - a novel about popular music in which every sentence is completely, totally right. And it is very funny. For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=022408724X
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Jason Donald on Choke Chain
January - December 2009
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Walking the Block: Poetry Reading & Talk
October 2008 to August 2009
Jane Weir is available for events, reading from her poetry collections and/or from her innovative poetic biography 'Walking the Block' on the twentieth century hand block printers and textile artists Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher.
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Thomas Wright on Oscar's Books
Depends on availability
Thomas Wright is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
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Kate Colquhoun - Taste
April - September 2009
Kate Colquhoun is an energetic and enthusiastic personality, passionate and hugely well informed about the history of food. Kate is available for library events for audiences of 40 +
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Newcastle new city library opening programme june - Dec 2009
June to December 2009
Newcastles new city library will be opening in June 2009. It is the largest PFI project in the country . It has a 180 seat performance area and exhibition space. We are now putting together our opening programme for the new city library - what better way to promote your author than to have your author included in our programme which will be the focus of much media attention.
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