Martin Kirby, author of the inspirational No Going Back, talks about his family's new life as olive growers in northern Spain in this article in the Daily Telegraph.
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Combined sales of both editions of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight mean it goes up to No. 7 in the Children's chart this week, while New Moon is at No. 13 and Eclipse is at No. 20.
Posted 27/11/2008 11:31:26 by Helen Graham, Data Analyst with 0 comments.
Watch Philip Glenister talk about his new book Things Ain't What They Used to Be on Monday's BBC Breakfast.
Posted 27/11/2008 10:56:05 by with 1 comments.
The film version of Gillian Slovo's Red Dust is showing tonight in the UK on BBC1, at 11.25pm. It stars Hilary Swank.
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One of the questions I used to get asked a lot is, ‘How did you start writing?’ It was always an easy question to answer, simply because I started writing when I was twelve, and haven’t stopped since. These days though, the question has mutated into, ‘How did you start writing paranormal romance and urban fantasy’ and that one is a little harder to answer.
Posted 25/11/2008 12:28:51 by Keri Arthur with 1 comments.
Forty players, 2,000 chips each, Anthony Holden and son, and one trophy up for grabs. Yes, it was the Little, Brown Series of Poker, which raised £229 for the National Year of Reading charity.
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Read Mark Johnson's latest article for the Guardian newspaper on the subject of violence towards children, and its effects.
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The appearance of a grieving Esther Rantzen on the current series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! has led the Daily Mail to run an extract from Katharine Whitehorn's Selective Memory, in which she discusses her own experience of becoming a widow.
Posted 21/11/2008 10:06:07 by with 0 comments.
JD Robb's Salvation in Death jumps 32 places up the Trade Paperback Fiction chart to No. 3, and we have eight more titles in the Top 50 including Alexander McCall Smith's The Miracle at Speedy Motors at No. 10 and Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts at No. 11.
Posted 20/11/2008 09:34:14 by Helen Graham, Data Analyst with 0 comments.
In addition to learning that she has been shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, Poppy Adams has this week been into the Little, Brown offices, where she recorded a short piece about The Behaviour of Moths.
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Mark Oliver Everett, the musician better known as E of the Eels and author of the remarkable Things the Grandchildren Should Know, learns about the quantum physicist father he never really knew in the BBC4 documentary Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, which was broadcast on Monday night. Watch it on the BBC iPlayer.
Posted 19/11/2008 09:58:32 by with 0 comments.
Richard Gere. Two words likely to strike passion into the hearts of women throughout the land. At Between the Sheets we know him more fondly as Richard ‘Have I always been a silver fox?’ Gere, or more simply by his real middle name, Tiffany.
Posted 18/11/2008 13:57:18 by The Between the Sheets team with 0 comments.
Writers are always being asked where the idea for a particular book came from. With my first two novels I can pretty much pinpoint the exact moment I had the idea, and the path it followed from inspiration to fully-worked-out plot. With The Various Flavours of Coffee it’s a bit different. In fact, it probably all goes back to a red velvet smoking jacket I wore when I was sixteen.
Posted 18/11/2008 10:44:31 by Anthony Capella with 0 comments.
Watch an archive recording from 2007 of Mark Johnson discussing his life and his book Wasted on ITV's This Morning programme.
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Little, Brown's Director of Digital Strategy and Marketing Director George Walkley appeared on a books special on BBC Radio Five Live this week to discuss all things digital -- to listen download the podcast from the BBC website.
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What's hot and what's not for the Between the Sheets team this month:
Posted 14/11/2008 10:16:31 by The Between the Sheets team with 0 comments.
BBC2 are repeating the television series of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's Long Way Down.
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Charlie Connelly's new book And Did Those Feet will be Radio 4's Book of the Week in the first week of the New Year.
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The Guardian reports that Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis is to turn his acclaimed autobiography Scar Tissue into a television series.
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Philip Glenister appeared on Radio 4's Midweek programme this morning to discuss his new book Things Ain't What They Used to Be: click here to listen again on the BBC website.
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Kelley Armstrong's Living With the Dead is at No. 1 in the Hardback Science Fiction chart, and goes into the overall Hardback Fiction chart at No. 22!
Posted 12/11/2008 12:02:34 by Helen Graham, Data Analyst with 0 comments.
Posted 11/11/2008 17:06:12 by Anthony Capella with 0 comments.
Gillian Slovo discussed her new novel Black Orchids, and the late South African singer Miriam Makeba, on BBC Radio 4's Front Row yesterday -- listen to the programme on the BBC website.
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Today's Daily Mirror notes that President Elect of the United States Barack Obama lists Gilead by Marilynne Robinson among his favourite books on his facebook page.
Posted 06/11/2008 09:56:49 by with 1 comments.
All three Stephenie Meyer paperback titles have moved back into the Children's Top 20 at No. 15, 18 and 19, and the Twilight film tie-in edition has sold just under a thousand copies in its first few days of publication.
Posted 05/11/2008 15:10:13 by Helen Graham, Data Analyst with 0 comments.
It started with a moan. Myself and Rupert Smith were complaining about the lack of opportunities for us as gay authors, the lack of invitations to read at major book festivals, the lack of invitations to read anywhere. Out of that conversation came Polari. I launched my gay literary salon night last November, with the help of Foyles Bookshop and in the hope that there were others out there who shared my passion for gay books.
Posted 04/11/2008 15:14:47 by Paul Burston with 0 comments.
Philip Glenister has been giving several interviews to promote his new book Things Ain't What They Used to Be -- and you can listen to some of them here.
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