Calendar: Author Available

Rachel Caine and The Morganville Vampires

27th May - 25th June 2010

Rachel Caine will be touring the UK to promote the latest in her YA series The Morganville Vampires during the month of June 2010 and is available for library events.

Claire Danvers thought that Morganville, Texas was a sleepy college town, until she discovered it was run by vampires hungry for fresh blood. The series will be eight-strong in May with the release of Kiss of Death. You can read more about the books, Rachel and view extracts by going to: http://www.allisonandbusby.com/book/glass-houses

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Karen Campbell available for events

All year round

Karen Campbell is a police officer turned crime writer and is available for library events, reading group sessions and readers' days. She is happy to give solo talks, or take part in a panel event. She lives in Glasgow and joined the Strathclyde Police in 1987, but after a career break to have her family, she applied to Glasgow University's Creative Writing programme. In 2003, Karen was awarded a Scottish Arts Council New Writer's Bursary. Her debut novel, The Twilight Time, was published in 2008 to great acclaim and was followed last year by After the Fire. Her third novel, Shadowplay, will be published in May 2010.
Visit Karen's website www.karencampbell.co.uk

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Jane Austen in the 21st Century

During 2010

Juliet Archer is a 19th-century mind in a 21st-century body. Actually, some days it's the other way round. She is on a mission to modernise all six of Jane Austen's completed novels, as a series called 'Jane Austen in the 21st Century'. Her first novel, 'The Importance of Being Emma', was shortlisted for the 2009 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance. She offers a 45-minute talk, with readings from her work, on why and how she is updating Jane Austen.

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Cara Black on Murder in the Latin Quarter

26th April to the 7th May

Murder in the Latin Quarter is the latest in Cara Black's highly regarded Aimee Leduc Parisian crime series.

A Haitian woman arrives at the office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is Aimee's sister, her father's illegitimate daughter. Aimee is thrilled. A virtual orphan since her mother's disappearance and her father's death, she has always wanted a sister. Her partner, Rene, is wary of this stranger, but Aimee embraces her and soon finds herself involved in murky Haitian politics, which leads to murder in Paris's bohemian Latin quarter.

Cara Black lives in Noe Valley, San Francisco with her bookseller husband, Jun. She's a San Francisco Library Laureate, Macavity and three time Anthony award-nominee for her series, Aimee Leduc Investigations, set in Paris. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Crime Writers and the Marais Historique Society in Paris.

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Author Available: ANDREW KAY: Pretty Boys All In A Row

Summer 1981 and hedonism rules on the sun-baked island of Ibiza. The streets and bars are overflowing and on the beaches there's a seemingly endless parade of beautiful bronzed adonises. Philip, though, is pasty and pale and plain to boot. Why on earth, he wonders, has he come to this gay paradise when he can barely pluck up the courage even to uncover his body?

Then Philip meets Terry and everything changes. Terry is sixty-something, with a shocking predilection for orange shell suits and plastic flip-flops, but also a bottomless purse and a generous heart. Under Terry's tutelage, Philip begins to discover a whole new self and his transformation from ugly duckling to gorgeous butterfly begins. But Terry, too, has his own demons to face...

In this charming, witty and entertaining novel, Andrew Kay evokes a long-gone and surprisingly innocent world of casual encounters and guilt-free sex, but in the background is a darker theme - the difficulties of ageing, especially in a gay culture obsessed with youth and sexual conquest.

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Diane Janes on The Pull of the Moon

Diane Janes is a full-time writer of crime novels and investigative non-fiction. Her novel Moonshadow was highly commended in the 2006 CWA Debut Daggers Award for unpublished works. She is available for library events and to speak to reading groups.

The Pull of the Moon is a gripping novel of psychological suspense in the tradition of Frances Fyfield and Barbara Vine.

When Kate Mayfield receives a letter from Mrs Ivanisovic, she realises that the secret she has kept for more than thirty years is not so safe as she imagined. Haunted by the echoes of a vanished summer which changed her life for ever, Kate is forced to confront memories she would rather forget... a dead white face in a flickering beam, not flinching when the soil hit it...

Mrs Ivanisovic is dying and demands to be told the truth, but is Kate's story of love, lies and murder really what Mrs Ivanisovic wants to hear? And how much does she herself already know?

http://www.constablerobinson.com/?section=books&book=the_pull_of_the_moon_9781849010467_paperback

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Alison Bruce on Kimberly's Song

Alison Bruce is a scriptwriter, DJ and author of two non-fiction crime books. She is available for library events and to speak to reading groups. Following her stunning debut Cambridge Blue, this is the second DC Gary Goodhew mystery.

Kimberly Guyver and Rachel Golinski had always hoped their old life wouldn't catch up with them, they'd hoped they could leave it all behind but within hours, Rachel's home is burning and Kimberly's young son, Riley, is missing.

DC Gary Goodhew begins to sift through their lives and starts to uncover an unsettling picture of deceit, murder and accelerating danger. Kimberly seems distraught but also defensive and uncooperative. Is it fear and mistrust of the police which are putting her son at risk or is it darker motivations? With Riley's life in peril, Goodhew needs Kimberly to make choices, but she has to understand, the one thing she cannot afford is another mistake.

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D.J. Taylor on At the Chime of a City Clock

D.J. Taylor is available for library events and to speak to reading groups. For more information, click on continue reading.

Set against a backdrop of the 1931 financial crisis and acted out in shabby bed-sitters and Lyons tea shops, At the Chime of a City Clock is a brilliantly evoked slice of Thirties' noir.

D.J. Taylor is married to the novelist Rachel Hore and lives in Norwich. He is the author of two acclaimed biographies, Thackerary, and Orwell: The Life, which won the Whitbread Biography Prize in 2003. He has written six novels, the most recent being Kept: A Victorian Mystery. He is also well known as a critic and reviewer, and his other books include A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s and After the War: the Novel and England since 1945.

For more information see:
http://www.constablerobinson.com/?section=books&book=at_the_chime_of_a_city_clock_9781849010245_hardback

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Cath Staincliffe on The Kindest Thing

Cath Staincliffe is available for library events and to speak to reading groups. For more information, click on continue reading.

A fictional account looking at the fiercely contested topic of assisted suicide, The Kindest Thing is a love story, a modern nightmare and an honest and incisive portrayal of a woman who honours her husband's wish to die and finds herself in the dock for murder.

A finely written page-turner that charts the life of a marriage and all the joys and stresses of bringing up a family and contrasts this with the terrifying experience of being imprisoned and at the mercy of the full weight of the criminal justice system. The Kindest Thing tackles a controversial topic with skill and sensitivity. A book that begs the question: what would you do?

Cath Staincliffe is part of Murder Squad, a collective of seven crime writers from the North of England. She is the author of the acclaimed Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the creator of ITV's hit police series, Blue Murder, which recently returned to TV with three new episodes featuring DCI Janine Lewis, played by Caroline Quentin. Cath's first novel, Looking for Trouble, shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's best first novel award, was serialized on Woman's Hour.

For more information see:
http://www.constablerobinson.com/?section=books&book=the_kindest_thing_9781849012737_hardback

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Celebrity Shopper by Carmen Reid

March 2010

Carmen Reid is a wonderful author of the Personal Shopper series starring the incorrigible Annie Valentine. The fifth book in the series - Celebrity Shopper - is published on 4th March.

In 2009 we undertook some fantastic events with Carmen in various libraries across Scotland and the North. These events were incredibly popular with mothers and daughters as Carmen is also the author of a young adult series of books about a boarding school called St Jude's.

More of the same event style would be fantastic but it would also be fabulous to get Carmen doing some solo events or joint events with other adult authors, possibly with input from local businesses such as boutiques and salons to make it a true Girls Night In.

For further information about Carmen please visit her website - www.carmenreid.com

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Village Teacher by Jack Sheffield

February 2010 onwards

Jack Sheffield is the extremely charasmatic author of the Teacher series, the fourth book of the series - Village Teacher - will be published in January. The books are very much in the style of Gervase Phinn, Heartbeat and The Royal and are perfect fun, anecdotal stories that will make you laugh and spill your tea! Jack used to be a Headmaster in Yorkshire from the 1970s onwards and many of his stories are based on true accounts from his own experiences!

Being an ex-Headmaster Jack is exceptional at commanding an audience and people always come away from Jack's events well entertained. The books are perfect for Reading Groups and I'd like to suggest an "Afternoon Tea with Jack Sheffield" style event.

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Rosie Alison talks on The Very Thought of You

All year round (2010)

Rosie is available for library events.

A story of love, loss and complicated loyalties, combining a sweeping narrative with subtle psychological observation, The Very Thought of You has been longlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year 2010 and shortlisted for Amazon Rising Star.

For more information, see
http://www.almabooks.co.uk/the-very-thought-of-you-p-320-book.html

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Catrine Clay on Trautmann's Journey

March - April 2010

Catrine Clay is available for library events.

Trautmann's Journey is an astounding story of war and football - the first biography of Manchester City goalkeeper and former Hitler Youth star Bert Trautmann.

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Tom English on The Grudge

March - April 2010

Tom English is available for library events.

The Grudge is a gripping inside story of the 1990 Calcutta Cup, when an England Scotland rugby match became more than just a game.

For further information, please see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0224082760

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Gene Kerrigan on Dark Time in the City

Mid April - Mid June 2010

Gene Kerrigan is available for library events.

Dark Times in the City is a thoroughly absorbing page-turner thriller set among the Dublin underworld.

For further information, please see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=1846552559

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Sadie Jones on Small Wars

Mid April - Mid June 2010

Sadie Jones is available for library events.

The prizewinning and bestselling author of The Outcast returns with an emotionally powerful portrait of a marriage in extremis and a world-view in question. Sadie Jones has produced a passionate, gut-wrenching and brilliantly researched depiction of a 'small war' with devastating consequences; and in doing so, raises important questions that resonate profoundly today.

For further information, please see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0701184558

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Ben Okri on The Famished Road

April - May 2010

Ben Okri is available for library events.

Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living. This is his story. Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize and the first book in Okri's acclaimed trilogy.

For further information, please see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0099929309

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Marina Hyde on Celebrity

April - May 2010

Marina Hyde is available for library events.

Celebrity is a brilliant, hilarious thinking person's guide to a world obsessed to the point of lunacy by celebrity: a guide to our times and a classic piece of comic writing.

For further information, please see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=1846552591

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D.J. Taylor on Ask Alice

April - May 2010

D. J. Taylor is available for library events.

Ask Alice is a wonderful novel of concealment and subterfuge, sweeping from Kansas to London, from 1904 to 1936, by the author of Kept. The story is about a woman's rise and fall, the chances she takes the secret which will undo her.

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Brian Chikwava on Harare North

April - May 2010

Brian Chikwava is available for library events.

Harare North is a shocking, powerful and hugely acclaimed first novel about life as a refugee.

For further information, please see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=1409076458

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Archie Brown on The Rise and Fall of Communism

April - May 2010

Archie Brown is available for library events.

The Rise and Fall of Communism is a definitive and groundbreaking account of the revolutionary ideology that changed the modern world.

For more information, please see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=1845950674

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Mark Griffiths on The Lotus Quest

April to May 2010

Mark is available for library events.

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.

For further information, please see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=184595100X

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Alison Weir on Traitors of the Tower

March - April 2010

Alison Weir is available for library events.

More than four hundred years ago, seven people - five of them women - were beheaded in the Tower of London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death? Alison Weir's gripping book tells their stories: from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king, to the young girl killed after just nine days on the throne. Alison Weir is a wonderful storyteller. Through her vivid writing, history comes alive.

For further information, see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0099542285

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Ruth Dudley Edwards on Aftermath

March - April 2010

Ruth is available for library events.

Aftermath is a remarkable human, political, and legal story: an insider's account of the landmark attempt to bring the Omagh bombers to justice.

For further information, please see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0099472171

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Caroline Moorehead on Dancing to the Precipice

March - April 2010

Caroline Moorehead is available for library events.

Lucie de la Tour du Pan was the Pepys of her generation: her diaries provide a vivid picture of Versailles, the French Recolution and Napoleon. This richly textured, highly enjoyable biography shows us an extraodinary woman in the midst of her extraodinary times.

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Jed Mercurio on American Adulterer

March - April 2010

Jed Mercurio is available for library events.

The subject of this novel is a habitual womaniser. He regards his high libido as physiologically normal; if he goes without a woman for three days, he suffers headaches. He embarks on affairs with Hollywood starlets, with mob molls and numerous female employees, despite debilitating ailments and a persistent fear of losing his beloved wife and children. And this particular philanderer must choose his partners with care and employ painstaking calculation in their seduction. He must go to extraordinary lengths to conceal his affairs from his political rivals - and with good reason. He is the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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Paul Collier on Wars, Guns and Votes

March - April 2010

Paul Collier is available for library events.

Wars, Guns, and Votes is a timely, powerful and provocative study of the tensions between democracy and violence in the world's poorest countries, by one of the world's leading development economists.

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Philip Sington on The Einstein Girl

March - April 2010

Philip Sington is available for library events.

The Einstein Girl is a gripping and atmospheric historical thriller set in Berlin in 1932, inspired by documents recently discovered concerning Einstein's family.

For more information, please see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0099535793

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James Fleming on Cold Blood

March - April 2010

James Fleming is available for library events.

In Fleming's exciting historical adventure, the Russian Revolution is breaking out around him, but Charlie Doig has a private war to fight. He is determined to track down and kill Prokhor Glebov, the Bolshevik who raped and tortured his wife, Elizaveta. Convinced that Glebov will sooner or later turn up at Lenin's side, he and Kobi, his Mongolian henchman, make their way to St. Petersburg. There, amidst the chaos of the Revolution, they discover that Glebov has been put in charge of the political re-education of the Tsar and his family. The chase begins...

For more information, please see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0099529521

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Tim Thornton on The Alternative Hero

March - April 2010

Tim Thornton is available for library events.

One unremarkable Saturday morning Clive sees the biggest alternative-pop star of them all walking down the high street with his dry-cleaning: Lance Webster, disgraced ex-singer of Thieving Magpies ('the biggest British band to emerge from the late-eighties indie-boom' Rolling Stone). Clive hatches a ramshackle plan to befriend his idol and grab the scoop of a lifetime - why did Webster burn out?

For more information, please see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=009953178X

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Anthony Quinn on The Rescue Man

February - March 2010

Anthony Quinn is available for library events.

In a Liverpool torn apart by the Second World War, the 'Rescue Man' takes to saving the wounded from bombed buildings. But can he stop his own life from unravelling?

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Hephzibah Anderson on Chastened

February - March 2010

Hephzibah Anderson is available for library events.

'I'd had enough sex without love, maybe it was time to look for love without sex?': a witty look at twenty-first-century sex as Hephzibah Anderson seeks to resurrext romance during a year-long adventure in chastity.

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James Scudamore on Heliopolis

February - March 2010

James Scudamore is available for library events.

As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now twenty-seven, he works high above the sprawling metropolis of São Paulo for a vacuous 'communications company'. But this is not his world, and this is not a simple rags-to-riches story: Ludo's destiny moves him around like a chess piece, showing him both extremities of opulent excess and abject poverty, taking him to the brink of madness and brutality.

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Gabriel Weston on Direct Red

February - March 2010

Gabriel Weston is available for library events.

Gabriel Weston worked in the big-city hospitals of the twenty-first century; a woman in a world dominated by Alpha males. Her world was one of disease, suffering and extraordinary pressure where a certain moral ambiguity and clinical detachment were necessary tools for survival. Startling and honest, her account combines a fierce sense of human dignity with compassion and insight, illuminating scenes of life and death the rest of us rarely glimpse.

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Paul Strathern on The Artist, The Philosopher and the Warrior

February - March 2010

Paul Strathern is available for library events.

In his extraordinary new book acclaimed historian Paul Strathern ingeniously focuses on this improbable collusion of three iconic figures of the Italian Renaissance to unite three mighty strands of the period - war, politics and art. As each man's life unfolds, so does the Italian Renaissance.

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Sian Rees on Sweet Water and Bitter

Late January - Late March 2010

Sian Rees is available for library events.

The vivid, action-packed and moving story of the Royal Naval squadron that patrolled the West African coast to stop the slave ships after Britain passed the Abolition Act.

For more information, see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=1845951174

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Because I am a Girl - various authors

Mid January - Mid March 2010

Tim Butcher, Xiaolu Guo, Joanne Harris, Kathy Lette, Deborah Moggach, Marie Phillips, and Irvine Welsh are available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

Seven authors have visited seven different countries and spoken to young women and girls about their lives, struggles and hopes. The result is an extraordinary collection of writings about prejudice, abuse, and neglect, but also about courage, resilience and changing attitudes.
Proceeds from sales of this book will go to PLAN, one of the world's largest child-centered community development organisations.

For more information, see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0099535920

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Druin Burch on Taking the Medicine

January - February 2010

Druin Burch is available for library events.

For years patients have placed their trust in doctors and the drugs they prescribe. Yet as Druin Burch's thought-provoking history of medicine demonstrates, our trust has often been misplaced. Only with the development of antibiotics after the Second World War did doctors begin to cure more than they killed but even in this supposedly advanced age patients feel victim to tragedies such as the Thalidomide scandal.

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Rob Eastaway and Mike Askew on Maths for Mums and Dads

January - February 2010

Rob Eastaway and Mike Askew are available for library events.

Guiding parents through the basics of the maths their children are learning today at school, MATHS FOR MUMS AND DADS will cover the dilemmas and problems you are likely to be confronted with up to your child leaving primary school.

For more information, see: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0224086359

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Robert Crawford on The Bard

January to February 2010

Robert Crawford is available for library events.

The Bard is a major, brilliantly written new biography of poet Robert Burns, by a leading scholar of Scottish Poetry.

For more information, see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=1844139301

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Justine Kilkerr on Advice for Strays

January - February 2010

Justine Kilkerr is available for library events.

An utterly original and hugely imaginative debut, Advice for Strays is a novel about love, loss, family and a very unusual friendship. It marks the arrival of a stunning new voice in contemporary fiction.

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Adrian Tinniswood on Pirates of Barbary

March - April 2010

Adrian Tinniswood is available for library events.

Pirates of Barbary recounts the secret history of Barbary Coast piracy in the 17th century.

For more information, see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0224085263

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Matthew Kelly on Finding Poland

Mid February to Mid April 2010

Matthew Kelly is available for library events.

Finding Poland is an expansive, insightful and moving history of the Polish experience during World War Two, and its lasting legacy.

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Panos Karnezis on The Convent

January - February 2010

Panos Karnezis is available for library events.

The Convent is a major new novel from one of our finest young writers, author of Little Infamies and The Maze.

For more information, see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0224079344

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John Burnside on Waking Up in Toytown

January - February 2010

John Burnside is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

The sequel to his haunting, celebrated account of a troubled childhood, A Lie About My Father, John Burnside's startling new memoir follows his hopeless quest for peace and mental security as the ghosts and terrors close in and the illusion of Surbiton falls apart. Unsettling, touching, oddly romantic and unflinchingly honest, this is the story of one man's search for sanity - but it is also, in its own way, the true story of an impossible, unmanageable love.

For more information, see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0224080733

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Clare Clark on Savage Lands

Mid March to Mid May 2010

Clare Clark is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.

Rich in tactile detail, heart-wrenching in its portrayal of people clinging on to their humanity against the brutality of nature and commerce, this is historical fiction at its best. So absorbing is Clare Clark's recreation of eighteenth-century Louisiana that the reader won't want to leave it, even though the unstable ground on which New Orleans is putting down its first foundations proves far from hospitable.

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Henry Sutton on Get Me Out of Here

Late January to Late March 2010

Henry Sutton is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.

Get Me Out of Here is a novel of comic anger, of success and failure, commerce and culture - and, fundamentally, belief - in a busted city.

For more information, see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=1846552842

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John Fuller on Pebble & I

April - May 2010

John Fuller is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.

Pebble & I is an enquiring and elegiac new collection from one of Britain's most respected and accomplished poets.

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Wendy Law-Yone on The Road to Wanting

April to May 2010

Wendy Law-Yone is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.

In The Road to Wanting, a distinguised Burmese novelist tells the story of a startlingly original homecoming.

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Stephen Anderton on Christopher Lloyd

March to May 2010

Stephen Anderton is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.

Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter is an enjoyable and revealing biography of the gloriously eccentric and opinionated gardener and writer Christopher Lloyd ('Christo'), who created the garden at Dixter in East Sussex. One of the greatest English gardeners of the 20th century, Christo was probably the finest plantsman of all time.

For more information, see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0701181133

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Andela Thirlwell on Into the Frame

Mid February to Mid April 2010

Angela Thirlwell is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.

Into The Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown is a vivid account of the public art and private demons of Ford Madox Brown, the finest but least understood of Pre-Raphaelite artists and the four central women in his life: his two wives and models and his two secret loves.

For more information, see http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0701179023

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Anna Lawrence Pietroni on Ruby's Spoon

1 - 10 February and June 2010

Anna Lawrence Pietroni is available for library events.

Ruby's Spoon is a bold and bewitching debut set in the industrial Black Country of the 1930s. Anna Lawrence Pietroni's fiercely charismatic heroine blazes the arrival of a mesmerising new literary talent.

For more information, see: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0701184361

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Sarah Bakewell on How to Live

Mid January - Mid March 2010

Sarah Bakewell is available for library events.

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer is a spirited and singular biography (and the first full life of Montaigne in English for nearly fifty years), relating the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing (made to speak only Latin), youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Etienne de La Boétie and with his adopted 'daughter', Marie de Gournay.

For more information, see: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0701178922

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Nick Bunker on Making Haste From Babylon

July - August 2010

Nick Bunker is available for library events.

Making Haste from Babylon is a vivid and strikingly original account of the Mayflower Project as well as the Pilgrims' first decade in the New Plymouth colony.

For more information, see: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0224081381

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Edward Pearce on Pitt the Elder

January - February 2010

Edward Pearce is available for library events.

Pitt the Elder is a masterful portrait of arguably the most powerful minister ever to guide Britain's foreign policy and of an age which marked a new epoch in history, when the balance of power in Europe and the world was set for almost two centuries.

For more information, see: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/results.htm

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Martin Edwards - The Lake District Mysteries

Martin Edwards, author of three previous novels in The Lake District Mysteries series (The Coffin Trail, The Cipher Garden, The Arsenic Labyrinth and coming Feb 2010 The Serpent Pool) is available for library events within reasonable travelling distance of mid Cheshire.

Martin's Lake District novels centre around historian Daniel Kind, newly moved to the area, and DCI Hannah Scarlett who heads up the Cold Case Review team.

As well as speaking to groups of varying sizes about his books, Martin is happy to talk on the following topics: forensics; true crime cases; detective fiction and its history and Agatha Christie. He has also run popular interactive Victorian murder mystery events.

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Author talk by MC Beaton

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A reading and talk of 'Call The Hands' by Roger Paine

CALLTHE HANDS
A Collection of My Naval Yarns

Have you ever used ink as colouring when icing a cake? Do you know where the expression 'grog' comes from or what happened when the admiral's parrot was seasick or why a general in the Philippines distributed medals from a Freeman, Hardy and Willis shoebox? Have you tried to take three gerbils and a mouse to Hong Kong as pets for your children? Do you know why a distinguished royal visitor had difficulty in flushing the ship's toilet after the independence ceremonies in Antigua or why Invergordon was referred to as 'dump'? Have you heard the story of a cat called Oscar who was sunk with the Bismarck in World War II but survived to be sunk twice more in the ships which rescued him?

The answers to these questions, and many more true salty stories, some worthy of the 'Navy Lark', are contained in "Call the Hands - A Collection of My Naval Yarns" by Roger Paine.

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Author Available

December 2009, January and February 2010

Tim Jackson is available for library events and reading groups. His book, Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet, is published by leading environmental publisher Earthscan. www.earthscan.co.uk/pwg

The book links economic growth to our environmental and economic crises, and argues that the consumerism that drives economic growth has started to undermine wellbeing in the advanced economies. He calls for a new definition of prosperity - based on wellbeing rather than GDP.

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Victoria Connelly on Molly's Millions

November 2009 - March 2010

Victoria Connelly, author of Molly's Millions, is available for library events within the London area.

Molly's Millions is about hard-up florist Molly Bailey who has just won a fortune in the National Lottery. And she wants to get rid of it - fast!

Perfect for women's reading groups, Victoria has also spoken at a number of library writers groups previously.

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Janet Skeslien Charles on Moonlight in Odessa

February 2010

Moonlight in Odessa by Janet Skeslien Charles, is a wry and sparkling debut novel - a cross between A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and Desperate Housewives. Originally from Montana, Janet Skeslien Charles now lives in Paris where she teaches creative writing at Shakespeare & Co. Moonlight in Odessa was inspired by her two years in Odessa as a Soros Fellow. Janet would be happy to come and talk to reading groups or talk on a panel alongside other writers.

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Angela Huth on Land Girls

February – October 2010

Angela Huth is available for library events and to speak to reading groups. For more information, click on continue reading.

Angela Huth is the author of Land Girls which became a feature film starring Anna Friel and Rachel Weisz. Her new book, Once a Land Girl is the brilliant and moving sequel. The war is over, but life goes on for Prue, Stella and Ag. While two of the girls are married, Prue, the incorrigible flirt, has no one and is engaged in a quest for a man to provide her with security and gold taps. Yet, in the puzzling world beyond the fields, Prue, in her indomitable way, open as ever to each chance encounter, remains buoyant, optimistic and quite sure that the life she imagines is just round yet another corner.

Angela Huth has written eleven novels and four short-story collections as well as TV, radio and stage plays. Two of her novels - Virginia Fly is Drowning and Sun Child - she adapted for the BBC. She is an established freelance journalist, critic and broadcaster.

For more information see:
http://www.constablerobinson.com/?section=books&book=once_a_land_girl_9781849012751_paperback

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Go Dutch! (Authors and samplers available)

Go Dutch is a promotion of new Dutch writing published in English. It features eight writers, many of whom will be available for events in the UK (with most costs being covered by the promotion). We also have quantities of a sampler of New Dutch Writing to make available at no cost to library authorities and readers groups. More details are on www.nlpvf.nl/godutch. The Go Dutch promotion runs until June 2010.

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Nick Jones on No. 1 Chesterfield Square

October 2009 onwards

Author Nick Jones would be delighted to come to your library for his talk 'Life either side of the green baize door', from his family saga novel - No. 1 Chesterfield Square.

From the glittering Belle Epoch to the roaring twenties, this is Upstairs Downstairs meets Gosford Park.

http://www.bookguild.co.uk/search.php?mode=search&page=1

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Arthur Lawrence on Suicide in Mind

Arthur Lawrence would be delighted to give a talk from his new book 'Suicide in Mind'. Eight well-known, brilliant writers all committed suicide - why? The usual suspects of drink, drugs and depression play their part - but discover more under the surface. Virgina Woolf to Hunter S Thompson...

http://www.bookguild.co.uk/search.php?mode=search&page=1

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Hallie Rubenhold on Lady Worsley's Whim

Up to March 2010

Hallie Rubenhold is available for library events.

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Martin Bell - A Very British Revolution

Oct 2009 - May 2010

I'm organising a book tour across the country for Martin Bell's new book - in October, November and December, as well as Spring 2010. For more information, click on continue reading.

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M.C. Beaton on Agatha Raisin/Hamish MacBeth

July 2009 - March 2010

M.C. Beaton is the author behind the two much loved and bestselling crime fiction series featuring Agatha Raisin and Hamish MacBeth.

She is available for library events for audiences of 40+ and to speak to reading groups about her books. For more information, click on continue reading.

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Colin Challen MP - TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE: THE POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Sept 2009 - Feb 2010

Passionate about climate change? Colin Challen is the guy to talk to . . .

Colin is available for library events and talks to reading groups. Click on continue reading for more information.

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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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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.

http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0701180617

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