Reading Agency calendar entries: Authors available

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

DJ Taylor available for events

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:48:12 +0000

Autumn 1933, and for once struggling writer James Ross seems to have fallen on his feet. Not only has the Labour Exchange fixed him up with a day-job collecting rents in Soho, but friendly Mr Samuelson is employing him front-of-house in the Toreador nightclub. Even his melancholy love-life is looking up, thanks to a chance encounter with the alluring Gladys, enigmatic inhabitant of the Meard Street second-floor back.
On the other hand, Soho looks an increasingly dangerous place in which to be at large. Not only are the Mosley's Blackshirts on the prowl, but somebody is raiding the dirty bookshops and smashing nightclub windows in a quest for moral decency. Fetched up in a police cell in West End Central after and unfortunate incident outside the Toreador, and coerced into undercover work by the mysterious Inspector Haversham, James finds himself infiltrating the Blackshirt's Chelsea HQ.

Contact jamie@constablerobinson.com

James Craig available for events

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:23:21 +0000

Jake Haggar, barely six years old has been kidnapped by his father who is threatening to sell the boy to a child trafficking ring. Carlyle has to get him back. It's not his case but it is his problem- it was his fault Jake was taken in the first place.
Meanwhile, Carlyle has his own caseload to deal with including the murder of Agatha Mills. Her husband, Henry has been arrested for her murder but his explanation is so outlandish that Carlyle wonders if it may just be true. Agatha is the sister of William Pettigrew, a priest killed in Chile during the fascist coup in 1973 and after 30 years of campaigning, and was about to see his killer brought to justice.

Carlyle is also asked to help television reporter Rosanna Snowdon, who fears she is being stalked by a demented fan.

Contact: jamie@constablerobinson.com

An evening with Heather Peace

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:08:39 +0000

Heather Peace talks about her novel All To Play For. It's time to tell our story, starting when my new friends and colleagues-to-be were all as fresh, young and wet behind the ears as I was myself. When our hearts were open, and our integrity was still intact.
Rhiannon dreams of joining the largest broadcaster in the world: the BBC. And so begins a life of highs, lows, and absurd experiences for five ambitious young people, all keen to make it in the increasingly commercial world of television.
http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/Leisure_and_Culture/Libraries/Library_facilities_incl_location_opening_hours/118251_Author_and_literary_events.asp

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

Craig Taylor available for events

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:15:31 +0000

Londoners is an extraordinary group portrait of London today. This is no guide book to the sights of London. This is about the people, not the places and these are their stories, as witnessed by Canadian Craig Taylor, an acclaimed journalist, playwright and writer who became fascinated by the question 'what kind of person ended up in London'.

Craig is available for features and interviews and can talk about the importance of oral history, London's markets and riots

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

Authors Wanted!!

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:17:45 +0000

Cambridgeshire Libraries is busy planning our author events for 2012 and we are now looking for available authors for events from February to April 2012.

Events to be held in the following libraries:

Cambridge Central
Chatteris
Yaxley
Whittlesey
Ramsey
St. Neots
St. Ives
Wisbech
Ely
Huntingdon
March

If you are interested in any of these locations - or other library venues in Cambridgeshire for author events please contact James Nicol - Adult Stock & promotrions Manager - in the first instance.

Charlie Fletcher - Far Rockaway

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:07:43 +0000

Charlie Fletcher, author of the Stoneheart Trilogy, is available for school and library events to promote his latest book, Far Rockaway, in the West Country.

Cat Manno and her grandfather Victor made a pact that one day, just for the hell of it, they'd take the subway and stay on the A-train until the very end of the line where the last narrow spit of land runs out into the ocean at Far Rockaway. This isn't that day.

On the first page Cat is knocked down by a speeding fire truck whilst crossing 55th St and 3rd Ave in Central Manhattan. She wakes up in a world made from all the books her grandfather used to read to her, peopled by some of the most memorable heroes of classic adventure fiction, brought vividly back to life. Cat must earn their friendship and help as she begins an odyssey and epic quest to find the mythic Castle at the World's End. And the name of that distant, mythic, wave-tumbled fastness? It is, of course, the castle of Far Rockaway ...

If you enjoy reading good books - swashbuckling adventures with sword fights and pirates - then Far Rockaway is the book for you. Join Cat as she embarks on the journey of a lifetime!

To set up an event, please contact Corinne Gotch at corinne.gotch@hachettechildrens.co.uk

Lynn Shepherd author of Tom-All-Alone's

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:18:03 +0000

Lynn Shepherd is the author of the captivating Tom-All-Alone's, a reimagining of Dickens masterpiece and first English detective story- Bleak House. With the bicentenary of Dickens birth on the 7 February, Lynn is available for talks, workshops, reading group sessions and readers' days.

Tom-All-Alone's aims to craft something that would not only be a compelling 'literary murder mystery' in its own right, but also a creative response to the events and themes of Dickens' text. Tom-All-Alone's was actually the original title of Dickens Bleak House.

The story of Tom-All-Alone's runs parallel to Dickens, and his characters populate her own literary landscape, whether as principal protagonists, like the lawyer Tulkinghorn and Inspector Bucket, or mere bystanders seen or overheard in London's crowded dining-houses, pubs, and omnibuses. Through the eyes of her young detective, Charles Maddox, we see these familiar episodes and characters from a new angle, and find answers to questions that Bleak House left unanswered.

if you would like Lynn to visit your library please contact Emily Burns: emily@constablerobinson.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.

The Magical Detectives and the Forbidden Spell

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:30:08 +0000

The second book in the thrilling Magical Detectives series is out this month. Author, Brian Keaney, is available for author events.

In a locked museum in the middle of the night a thief appears from nowhere, steals a priceless clay tablet from Ancient Babylon and then disappears. In the village of Harford a senior British diplomat is found strangled in his bed. And in the sleepy little town of Bridlington Chawley an internationally-famous hypnotist knocks on the door of Spinoza's Second-Hand Bookshop.

What is the connection between these three events? That's the mystery that the Magical Detectives have to solve.

The Magical Detectives and the Forbidden Spell is the second book in the Magical Detective Agency series. The first book has been chosen for the Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge

For more information, or to orgnise an event, please contact Sarah Bennett

Andy Seed - Yorkshire author of All Teachers Great and Small - available for events

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:01:01 +0000

Andy Seed has crystallised his experiences as a primary school teacher in the Yorkshire Dales into the memoir All Teachers Great and Small.

Andy is an experienced public speaker and would like to visit libraries in the Yorkshire region (and beyond) to tell readers about his brilliant memoir.

Andy's entertaining talks encompass many facets:
• the nostalgic real life events which feature in his book
• the challenges of writing memoirs
• How he got published and top tips for aspiring authors

Please contact maura.brickell@headline.co.uk for details.

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:48:25 +0000

DO YOU WANT TO DISCOVER

A NEW WORLD 300 YEARS AWAY
A MURDER MYSTERY IN SPACE
A LOVE OUT OF TIME . . .
THEY'RE SO CLOSE, BUT STILL SO FAR AWAY . . .

Follow Amy and Elder's thrilling journey - embark on your own adventure Across the Universe.

Guarantee your spot on board the spaceship 'Godspeed' by joining us at the UK Facebook fan page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Across-...

Read the book. Feel the romance. Live the experience at
http://www.acrosstheuniversebook.com/

And check out the book trailer on YouTube HERE.

Across the Universe publishes on 3.3.11