Ghost Town, by Rachel Caine (published 1 November) has hit the n.1 spot on the UK Children’s Fiction Bestsellers List! It is also n.55 on the UK Bestsellers List for ALL books!
In The Bookseller last week, it was noted that The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Anne Barrows and The Island, by Victoria Hislop used the same image of the pale-skinned brunette on their covers. The image in question is obviously a popular choice as we too considered using […]
My most recent read from the inter-office library system (read: box of jumbled books behind my desk) was Sunnyside by David Glen Gold. A really interesting, if slightly unwieldy, story set in America during the Great War. One of the (many) strands follows Charlie Chaplin; his life, his relationships, his neuroses, and his movies at […]
This Sunday, I spent the day building IKEA bookshelves. Two Billy bookshelves to be precise, in the way all IKEA instructions inevitably are. (Love those Swedes – even I feel DIY worthy. Tack very much.) Basically, there comes a point were you can no longer choose to send a book to Oxfam in order to […]
I’m usually depressed at the number of adverts I see on the tube which generally project the image that we are all leading very unsatisfactory lives. It would seem that the majority of us need more sleep (Take Pro-Plus!), need more energy (Red Bull Gives you Wings!), need a holiday (shot of the Maldives with […]
Sweeney Todd, Mrs Lovett, Cruella De Vil and Where’s Wally (that was me, simplicity being paramount in my costume choice) were just some of the people who gathered on Saturday night to celebrate a good friend’s birthday (Mrs Lovett’s of course). Among the tasty treats were pies with fingers sticking out of them (read, sausages), […]
Saturday 4th December, 12noon – 3.00pm WATERSTONE’S, BRADFORD Come and Meet Dr Dale, leader of the hit comedy seminar How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse and author of Dr Dale’s Zombie Dictionary. Ask him anything you want about zombie survival and get a signed copy of his book at Waterstone’s, The Wool Exchange, Hustlergate, […]
Saturday 27th November, 12noon-2.00pm WATERSTONE’S, BLACKPOOL Come and Meet Dr Dale, leader of the hit comedy seminar How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse and author of Dr Dale’s Zombie Dictionary. Ask him anything you want about zombie survival and get a signed copy of his book at Waterstone’s, 4 The Tower Shopping Centre, Bank […]
Saturday 20th November, 12noon – 3.00pm WATERSTONE’S, LIVERPOOL Come and Meet Dr Dale, leader of the hit comedy seminar How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse and author of Dr Dale’s Zombie Dictionary. Ask him anything you want about zombie survival and get a signed copy of his book at Waterstone’s, 14-16 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 […]
How does a girl from a Northampton indie rock band end up on the cover of a Canadian author’s book? By chance? Or cosmic choice? It is a question that has arisen following our reissue of Every Secret Thing – with a new cover below: We settled for the photograph of this particular woman because […]
I’m not terribly confident at reading recipes. For some reason, I have a mental block when it comes to absorbing the entire recipe in one go and literally have to check every word as I go along, terrified I’m going to miss a crucial step or ingredient and end up with something inedible. I fare […]
Ghost Town,by Rachel Caine – published 1 November and the latest release in the bestselling Morganville Vampire series – is already riding high in the sales rankings at Amazon and Waterstone’s.
Tomorrow marks the opening of a new exhibition at the Print House Gallery in Dalston, featuring work by past and present members of the studio Happiness At Work, and including work from illustrator Harriet Russell… She also happens to be one of our authors… ‘Author of what book?’, I hear you ask… Author of Envelopes: […]
There are two books in my house which stand out on our livingroom bookshelf for the mere fact that they are – pink. One is the book One Hundred Shades of White, by Preethi Nair – with a beautiful hardback cover that evokes the vibrant colours of Indian saris… and yes, that luscious pink, inequivocally […]
As I go back and forth each day out of Liverpool Street station I have seen the stadium for London 2012 taking shape. I’ve been more interested in the progress of the Aquatics centre myself, as a regular(ish) paddler, and because it looks like it’s going to be a very cool building. What I’m not […]
I know it’s over a week until the 31st but in London at least, Halloween’s starting early…specifically in my case on Saturday 23rd October. I’ve already marked the date for Dr Dale‘s return to London with his hit comedy-seminar How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse RELOADED – back at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith this […]
The acclaimed Republic trilogy, by Jack Ludlow – including The Pillars of Rome (a Top Ten bestseller), The Sword of Revenge and The Gods of War – has been a great success for us. Now the Romans are getting a revamp and so far, the first two books in the trilogy have been released with […]
Traditionally Christmas book promotions have been all about the celebrity memoir but over recent years their popularity seems to have waned. With a few notable exceptions – Peter Kay, Sharon Osbourne, Frankie Boyle etc – most big name autobiographies seem destined to bomb, hitting publishers extremely hard if you are to believe the insane advances […]
You may already have spotted the news that Allison & Busby’s ebooks will very shortly be distributed by a new collaboration of independent publishers – The Faber Factory. It’s an exciting and fast moving time for publishing, but I stumbled upon the most intriguing recent example of this the other day with a mention of […]
Today has been a bit of a food-themed day. Granted, seeing as my mind is generally food-obsessed, that probably doesn’t differentiate it from any other day, but let’s just say there were more external factors feeding into this today. I spent my morning preparing extracts from The South African Illustrated Cookbook for House & Home […]
Friday 19th November, 7.30pm THEATR, HARLECH Would you survive the rising of the undead? Catch Dr Dale (author of Dr Dale’s Zombie Dictionary) and his team of experts on their autumn tour of How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse RELOADED – the brilliant award-winning spoof seminar (a mix of sketches, improvisation and audience question and […]