Reading Agency calendar entries: South West

Jim Keeble available for author events

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:55:41 +0000

Jim Keeble is an acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter. He is currently working on the BBC series Silent Witness. His new novel The Happy Numbers of Julius Miles is about the impossibility of being a modern dad and the pressure of the 'have-it-all' society.
For more information about this book, you can click on:
http://www.almabooks.com/the-happy-numbers-of-julius-miles-p-387-book.html
To set up an event with Jim please contact eminervini@almabooks.com

Danny Miller available for events

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:54:00 +0000

The second book in the Vince Treadwell series, The Gilded Edge follows the straight-laced yet ambitious and handsome Detective Vince Treadwell. He is sent to investigate the seemingly unrelated murders of a playboy aristocrat from Belgravia and a young black nurse from the wrong side of town. We follow Treadwell to the illegal drinking dens of Notting Hill run by self-styled Black Power leader, Michael X; the nightclubs of Soho owned by the legendary gangster, Billy Hill; and the exclusive gaming tables of the Montcler Club in Berkeley Square, where the blue-bloods and power players of England gamble thousands on their turn of a card. But as Vince Treadwell digs deeper he finds himself not only embroiled with a beautiful society girl, Isabel Saxmore-Blaine, but a world of espionage and corruption where the underworld mixes easily with the aristocracy, and no one is innocent.

jamie@constablerobinson.com

Brilliance by Anthony McCarten

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:40:24 +0000

Brilliance deals with the life of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who - short of money - is captivated by the charismatic figure of J.P. Morgan, the 'world's banker'. He accepts Morgan's offer of almost unlimited cash in return for helping him change the way the world does business. In the process, Edison sees himself descend from being a godlike inventor of electric light to being complicit in the invention of the electric chair. This book is very topical and chimes in with the Wall Street and St Paul's anti-capitalist 'occupy movement'.

Email Elisabetta Minervini (eminervini@almabooks.com) if you are interested in proofs for your reading group (Only 8 sets of 5 available) or if you would like Anthony to visit your library.

Continue reading here - http://www.almabooks.com/brilliance-p-385-book.html

Bournemouth Festival of Words

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:49:49 +0000

We are looking for authors to complement our Festival's philosophy of ensuring that everyone who loves words can attend the Festival particularly those who face physical or financial barriers to doing so. Authors who have triumphed over adversity would be of particular interest as well as children's authors or those writing humour.

Sarah Moss available for events in South West England

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:16:32 +0000

The critically accalimed novelist sarah Moss will be available for lilbrary events in the south west of England to coincide with paperback publication of Night Waking in April 2012.

'Tartly humorous, sad and clever ... a passionately written meditation on motherhood, with all the monotony, desperation and visceral feelings faithfully recorded' Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times

'Highly enjoyable... The upbeat conclusion to this blend of middle-class satire, historical fiction and campus novel does not soften Moss's withering take on sexism and her stark view of motherhood' Daily Telegraph

'Moss writes marvellously (and often hilariously) about the clash between career and motherhood. Allison Pearson for intellectuals' Times

kpike@granta.com

Author Available: Trilby Kent, Smoke Portrait

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:57:57 +0000

Trilby Kent is available for library events, reading groups sessions and readers' days. Children aged 10+. Trilby would also be happy to talk to classes of students.

To set up an event, please contact eminervini@almabooks.com and for more info about the book, please visit http://www.almabooks.com/stones-for-my-father-p-384-book.html

Stones for My Father deals with the second Boer war, and gives quite an uncompromisingly critical appraisal of the English repression of the Boers at the beginning of the twentieth century. It's the story of a young girl and of his family, and their trials as they are pushed away from their farm and imprisoned in a concentration camp.
The author is a descendant of the Boer war hero Danie Theron.

Sleuths! IV Crime & Thriller Festival

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:36:44 +0000

Torbay Libraries and our commercial partners The Torbay Bookshop are currently fielding writers who would be interested in being guests at the 4th Sleuths! Crime and Thriller Writing Festival here in Torbay in 2012. The festival is scheduled to take place Wednesday 18 - Saturday 21 April.

At this stage we remain largely unfunded so we would ideally seek to coincide with planned promotional tours for any crime and thriller releases. Guest authors in past years have included Robert Goddard, Belinda Bauer, Jane Casey, MC Beaton, Ann Cleeves, Graham Hurley, Simon Brett and Anne Perry.

Contact paul.trainer@torbay.gov.uk for further details.

Meet Ally Kennen at the launch of her new book, Quarry!

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:54:41 +0000

Drop in to Waterstone's in Taunton and meet local author Ally Kennen, and hear her talk about her brand new Teen Chiller, QUARRY!

Saturday 5th February
2pm to 4pm

Waterstone's Taunton
The County Hotel, East Street
Taunton TA1 3LU

For more information, please contact Catherine Alport

Author available: Lindsay Clarke, The Water Theatre

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:19:48 +0000

Lindsay Clarke is available to talk about his new book, The Water Theatre, "a powerful story of loyalty and loss, of betrayal and reconciliation." This is his first literary novel after the Chymical Wedding, winner of the Whitbread Award for Fiction in 1989.

Author available: Annelise Freisenbruch, The First Lady Of Rome

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:37:10 +0000

Annelise Freisenbruch is available to talk about her new book, The First Lady of Rome.

The first group biography in English of the imperial women of Rome - from an exciting young historian.

Contact fmurphy@randomhouse.co.uk