Simon Trewin

Joel Rickett in The Bookseller today interviews me and my colleagues Pat Kavanagh and Caroline Dawnay about United Agents and the future, PFD and the past. You can read the whole article here.

There has been so much other press in recent days about the launch that I have archived it here. You can also visit our website here

If you missed Paul Arnott, author of LET ME EAT CAKE, on Richard Bacon’s BBC R5 show on Thursday night you can listen again here. Paul will be doing a lot of publicity and press over the next three weeks to launch his stunning new non-fiction title IS THERE ANYONE UP THERE? – Adventures In Faith and Doubt which is published by Jocasta Hamilton at Hodder on April 17th. As a young boy Paul Arnott believed in Adam and Eve, Father Christmas and Baby Jesus. But as he got older he found things weren’t so simple…..

 The multi-talented Chris Humphreys has joined my list.

As C.C. Humphreys, Chris has written five historical fiction novels. The first, ‘The French Executioner’  was runner up for the CWA Steel Dagger for Thrillers 2002. Its sequel, ‘Blood Ties’, was a bestseller in Canada. He has written three books about Jack Absolute – this ‘007 of the 1770’s’ - ‘Jack Absolute’, ‘The Blooding of Jack Absolute’ and, most recently, ‘Absolute Honour’. All have been published in the UK, Canada, the US and translated widely. As ‘Chris Humphreys’ he has written a trilogy for Young Adults ‘The Runestone Saga’. His latest adult novel: THE LAST CONFESSION -  the true history of DRACULA which will be published worldwide in 2008 and 2009.

 Venetia Thompson (pictured on the cover of the current issue of The Spectator) has joined my client list. Read her piece ‘A Sloane Ranger In Gangsta land’ here – Tired of Euro-Sloane bores in Chelsea, she tours the clubs of Harlesden, the UK’s ‘gun capital’, and experiences a world where a firearm is as normal a status symbol as a Chanel handbag or a Rolex watch would be in SW3. Venetia is working on a fantastic non-fiction proposal – more details soon.

The most successful Irish debut of 2007, Niamh Greene’s laugh-out-loud SECRET DIARY OF A DEMENTED HOUSEWIFE (Penguin Ireland), has been shortlisted for two Irish Book Awards – in the The Galaxy Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year and the International Education Services Ltd Best Irish Newcomer of the Year categories. Continue reading ‘THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENE(R)’