Reading Agency calendar entries: Authors available

Monkey Nuts - authors available for events

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:48:19 +0000

The Etherington Brothers, creators of the wonderful and whacky Monkey Nuts, are available for events with boys and girls age 8+ and are happy to speak to audiences from 10-200.

Monkey Nuts is published by David Fickling Books as part of the brilliant Comic Book Library.

To set up an event with The Etheringtons please contact theetheringtonbrothers@hotmail.co.uk and for more info on them and Monkey Nuts please visit: http://theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.com

Author available - Melanie Welsh

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:06:55 +0000

Melanie Welsh, author of the magical 'Mistress of the Storm' published by David Fickling Books is available for events with boys and girls age 9+ and is happy to speak to audiences from 10-200.

The Bookseller described 'Mistress of the Storm' as 'A really gripping magical debut with a strong girl heroine.'

To set up an event with Melanie please contact melanie@veritygallant.co.uk and for more info on Melanie and the book please visit www.veritygallant.co.uk

Author events available with Dinah Capparucci

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:05:18 +0000

Dinah Capparucci is the author of the brilliant Warning! series, published by Scholastic Children's Books, and is available for events with mixed audiences aged 7+.

Dinah's events are hilarious (she was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2008) and informative - best suited to audiences of 30-40 children.

If you are interested in an event with Dinah and want to find out more information about her and her books, contact Catherine on calport@scholastic.co.uk

Author available: Dr Chris Smith, "The Naked Scientist"

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:19:36 +0000

Dr Chris Smith is a medical doctor and scientist, employed as a specialist registrar and clinical lecturer in virology at Cambridge University. He is also the founder and driving force behind The Naked Scientist, live weekly radio talkback show aired by the BBC.

Contact: zoe.hood@littlebrown.co.uk

Author available: Juliet Barker, The Brontës (revised and updated ed)

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:35:09 +0000

Juliet Barker's landmark book was the first definitive history of the Brontës. It demolishes myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling - but true. Based on first-hand research among all the Brontë manuscripts, many so tiny they can only be read by magnifying glass, and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Brontës biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. The Brontës is a revolutionary picture of the world's favourite literary family.

Juliet Barker is a distinguished biographer and a medievalist and scholar. She is both a bestselling historian and a critically acclaimed expert on the Brontës.

Also available to talk on Conquest: The thirty years of English rule in France that followed the battle of Agincourt, now available in paperback.

Contact susan.desoissons@littlebrown.co.uk

Author available: Philip Palmer, "Version 43"

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:28:26 +0000

Philip Palmer is a film and television writer and producer who also writes for radio and theatre. He teaches screenwriting at Leeds Metropolitan University and runs a television drama series course in Brighton for Lighthouse. His last book Red Claw was classic pulp sci-fi and garnered incredible reviews. Version 43 is a wide-screen adventure of death and robots on a violent frontier world.

Contact rose.tremlett@littlebrown.co.uk

Author available: Maggie Smith-Bendall

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:24:24 +0000

Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community's long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn wagon, picked hops and flowers, and sat beside her father's campfire on ancient verges, poor but free to roam. As the twentieth century progressed, common land was fenced off and the traditional ways disappeared. Eventually Maggie married a house-dweller and tried to settle for bricks and mortar, but she never lost the restless spirit, the deep love of the land and the gift for storytelling that were her Romani inheritance. This is her memoir.

Contact sophie.mcivor@littlebrown.co.uk

Author available: Rosamund Lupton, "Sister"

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:19:12 +0000

Rosamund Lupton got an honours degree in English literature from Cambridge University. She reviewed books for the Literary Review and after being a winner of Carlton Television's play competition was invited to join the Royal Court Theatre's writers' group. She subsequently worked as a full-time script writer for television and film. She lives with her husband and two sons in London. This is her first novel and Piatkus' biggest fiction launch of 2010.

Contact: paola.ehrlich@littlebrown.co.uk

Author available: Jane Gardam, "The Man in the Wooden Hat"

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:09:30 +0000

Jane Gardam, OBE is without doubt one of our greatest writers; a doyenne of literary novels and short stories. A new book from Jane is a highlight in the publishing calendar.

Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. How Elisabeth turns into Betty and whether she remains loyal to stolid Filth or swept up by caddish Veneering, make for a page-turning plot, in a perfect novel which is full of surprises and revelations, as well as the humour and eccentricities for which Jane Gardam's writing is famous. The Man in the Wooden Hat is a companion novel to the Orange Prize shortlisted novel, OLD FILTH.

Contact: susan.desoissons@littlebrown.co.uk

Author available: Charlie Connelly, "Our Man in Hibernia"

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:59:26 +0000

In the summer of 2008 Charlie emigrated to Ireland. Our Man In Hibernia follows his attempts to assimilate in Ireland, matching the image of the nation he'd gleaned through a couple of dozen London St Patrick's Days, countless theme pubs and a low-wattage career as a musician on the UK Irish music circuit with the reality of living here. As well as chugging himself around the country getting into scrapes, he also sets about tracing his hitherto unexplored Irish roots. What he found was an essentially Irish story and one that surprised him. It was a story that gave him an idea as to why despite being born and raised in London, he's always felt drawn to the western side of the Irish Sea and why he is glad that Ireland is his home.

Contact: sophie.mcivor@littlebrown.co.uk

Author available: Danny Danziger, "We Are Soldiers"

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:52:38 +0000

Danny Danziger is a celebrated interviewer and the author of 11 non-fiction titles. His previous Little, Brown book, The Year 1000, sold almost 130,000 copies. His long-running Sunday Times column 'Best of Times, Worst of Times' is the recipient of many award and accolades. When writing We Are Soldiers Danziger interviewed hundreds of soldiers in the British Army of all ranks, divisions and seniority, to uncover the reasons why men and women choose to be soldiers in the 21st century, giving a unique insight into the reality of modern warfare and what it means to fight for your country.

Contact: kirsteen.astor@littlebrown.co.uk

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: Anthony Clavane, Promised Land

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:50:33 +0000

Anthony Clavane is available to talk about his new book, Promised Land.

A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the ill-fated Leeds United football club in the tradition of 'The Damned United'.

Contact fmurphy@randomhouse.co.uk

Author available: Stephen Moss, The Bumper Book of Nature

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:44:07 +0000

Stephen Moss is available to talk about his Bumper Book of Nature.

'This book deserves to be a bestseller' - BBC Wildlife

'Terrific, beautifully designed, inventive, creative and various. Bravo.' - Michael Morpurgo

Contact fmurphy@randomhouse.co.uk

Author available: Tom McCarthy, "C"

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:38:09 +0000

Tom McCarthy is available to talk about his new book, "C".

The author of 'one of the great English novels of the past ten years' moves to the next level, with a novel of thrilling action, imagination and ambition, perfect for fans of Bolano and Pynchon.

Contact fmurphy@randomhouse.co.uk