Come join BOOKSLAM for an Autumnal mulch of words and music as we celebrate the turning of leaves and the Frazerian sacrifice of the Sacred King. After all, ‘the danger is not less real because it is imaginary’.
If you haven’t tasted the delights of Patrick Neate’s BOOKSLAM then you need to buy some tickets NOW for this Thursday where the elegant wordsmith Andrew Miller will be promoting his new novel ONE MORNING LIKE A BIRD and headlining alongside Zen Edwards and Ben Mellor. Tickets are available via Bookslam and are ridiculously cheap at £6/£6.50.
The Sony award-winning Book Slam podcast has now been nominated for a BT Digital Music Award. Please vote for them….
My friend Lola Jaye’s international bestselling novel BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS has received wonderful critical acclaim and seen hundreds of thousands of copies walk off the shelves. Any budding authors out there will be fascinated by this little film Lola made about actually watching her book come off the printing presses. Check it out here. Lola is represented by the agent Judith Murdoch.
We have two copies to give away of Tom Vanderbilt’s brilliant book TRAFFIC - Why We Drive The Way We Do And What It Says About Us which is just published by Penguin Press in the UK and Knopf in the US. Please email simon@unitedagents.co.uk – first come first served.
Congratulations to the team at Headline Publishing and to Sir Cliff Richard whose book, written with Penny Junor, is riding high at Number One for a second week. His single is currently at Number Three in the UK’s charts.
MORE than 1,000 fans packed out the Trafford Centre in Manchester to meet their idol. The 67-year-old musical legend was at the shopping mecca on Thursday September 4, to sign copies of his new My Life My Way, at the centre’s WH Smith shop – beating even David Beckham and Westlife when they turned up for signings.
Henry Chancellor’s debut novel THE MUSEUM’S SECRET – the first in the Tom Scatterhorn trlogy – was launched by O.U.P at a trade and press dinner at Quaglino’s last night along with new books from Tim Bowling and Gerakldine McCaughrean. THE MUSEUM’S SECRET is classic story-telling at its very best, has been sold all over the world and is already creating a Hollywood buzz.
With his parents absent, our hero Tom Scatterhorn is packed off to his relatives, and their dusty, musty, fusty, stuffed animal galleries – the museum of the title. It’s not looking to be the best Christmas ever for Tom. Nearby, members of the town’s other major family lineage surface from darkest Peru, and claim to want to bury the hatchet on a four hundred year neighbourhood grudge. They have, of course, hidden motives. But the museum can offer a lot more of its own that is equally well hidden…..
The Disney/Miramax/Heyday Films movie of John Boyne’s multi-million selling novel ‘The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas’ has had its Dublin and London premieres in the last week and open at the San Sebastian film festival in Spain today.
The London premiere was attended by all the cast, the director Mark Herman, producers David Heyman and Rosie Alison and stars such as Rachel Stevens and Dustin Hoffman. The book is back at Number 1 in Ireland, is the UK’s number one best-selling children’s paperback and will appear in The Sunday Times adult fiction chart at the weekend as well. John’s website has some great footage of the London premiere along with a bunch of interviews with him and the cast. Pictured are John’s Mum and Dad at the premiere in Dublin.
Arsenal F.C goalkeeper Manuel Alumnia visited the Phoenix Cinema, 
High Road, East Finchley on Sunday 14th September for a Q & A session before its screening of the film as part of the Premier League’s Places for Players initiative, which aims to highlight the continued and increasing commitment the 20 Barclays Premier League clubs have to their local communities. Manuel showed his support for Arsenal’s Premier League Reading Stars programme, one of the many Arsenal in the Community education projects, in which he chose ‘Boy’ as his favourite novel.
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