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News
Updated:
March 5, 2010
Incarceron still on the New York Times Bestsellers List
Catherine Fisher's critically acclaimed novel Incarceron is on the New York Times Bestsellers List for the fourth consecutive week. Published by Dial Books in January, Incarceron tells the story of a futuristic prison, and a young prisoner, Finn, who dreams of escaping. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison and when Finn and Claudia simultaneously find a key, the plan for Finn’s escape is born …
'A resounding success . . . Complex and inventive, with numerous and rewarding mysteries, this tale is certain to please' - Publishers Weekly, starred review
'Fisher’s dystopic future, in which technology and decay coexist in a dazzling kaleidoscope of images and time periods, is brilliantly realized' - The Horn Book, starred review
'Breathless pacing, an intelligent storyline, and superb detail . . . With some well-timed shocking twists and a killer ending, this is a must have' - Booklist, starred review
H.E. Bates longlisted for the 1970 Booker Prize
H.E. Bates longlisted for the 1970 Booker Prize H.E. Bates's classic novel A LITTLE OF WHAT YOU FANCY, the last in the sequence of novels about the Larkin family that began with THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY, has been nominated for the Lost Man Booker Prize. The Lost Man Booker is a one-off prize to honour the books which missed out on the opportunity to win the Booker Prize in 1970. In 1971, just two years after it began, the Booker Prize ceased to be awarded retrospectively and became - as it is today - a prize for the best novel of the year of publication. As a result a wealth of fiction published for much of 1970 fell through the net.
The shortlist will be announced in March. For further information click here
Alphablocks by Max Allen & Emma Collins
Tune in to Cbeebies for their fab new series Alphablocks with Pollinger writers Max Allen and Emma Collins. The first of the series is screened on Monday 25th Jan at 4.30 pm.
The Alphablocks are twenty-six living letters who fall out of the sky onto an empty, white world and discover that if they hold hands and make a word, it comes to life. They learn as they go along and they're always ready to have a go, help each other out and make their own adventures.
Aimed at four-to-six-year-olds who are learning to read, Alphablocks is based on best-practice phonics teaching and it can help young children develop engagement and confidence with reading and making words.
Selected as Prix Jeunesse finalists in the Under 6 Fiction (TV) category.
For more information see the Alphablocks website here
Philip Gross wins TS Eliot Poetry Prize 2009
Pollinger congratulates Philip Gross, winner of the TS Eliot Poetry Prize for the best poetry book published in 2009. His latest collection, WATER TABLE was chosen from a shortlist of 10, and announced on Monday 18 January.
Philip Gross is also the author of several children’s novels, including FACETAKER which we are proud to have in our PiP list in large print. Copies are available from our bookshop.
Alison Allen-Gray's Lifegame nominated for the prestigious Carnegie Medal
Alison Allen-Gray's Lifegame has been nominated for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. The medal is annually awarded to the writer of an outstanding book for children as nominated by members of CILIP:the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
Just published Jacqueline Yallop's stunning debut novel
Kissing Alice
Published by Publisher of the Year Atlantic Books, Kissing Alice is a moving and haunting novel, which Edna O'Brien has already called "a very fine debut, beautifully written and with the emotions subtly rendered". Kissing Alice is the darkly intimate story of a family in which the ties of love and hate, fear and jealousy, innocence and experience, have all become dangerously confused. A remarkable first novel of family, love and loss, set against the unfolding of twentieth-century English life.
Just published by Preface, Random House, Kimberley Chambers' new novel THE BETRAYER
Maureen Hutton’s life has never been easy. Married to an alcoholic and stuck on a council estate in East London, she scrimps and saves to bring up her three children alone. Maureen sticks by her brood through thick and thin. But then the unforgivable happens. Maureen is told a terrible secret which threatens to rip her family apart. She can’t say anything. She is too frightened of causing a bloodbath. The only thing Maureen can do is get rid of the betrayer, before it is too late.
www.kimberleychambers.com
William Saroyan International Prize for Writing to be Awarded in 2010
Stanford University Libraries, in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, recently announced the launch of the fourth William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (Saroyan Prize). Intended to encourage new or emerging writers and honour the Saroyan literary legacy of originality, vitality and stylistic innovation, the Saroyan Prize recognizes newly published works of both fiction and non-fiction. A prize of $5,000 will be awarded in each of these categories. Official entry forms and rules are available here.
William Saroyan, an American writer and playwright, was a Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winner best known for his short stories about humorous experiences of immigrant families and children in California. Much of Saroyan’s other work is clearly autobiographical, although similar in style and technique to fiction. Saroyan was the fourth child of Armenian immigrants. He battled his way through poverty and rose to literary prominence in the early 1930s when national magazines began publishing his short stories, most notably The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze. Published collections of those stories include, My Name Is Aram, Inhale & Exhale, Three Times Three, and Peace, It’s Wonderful. Saroyan also had success as a playwright on Broadway and a writer of screenplays in Hollywood. His notable successes include: My Heart’s in the Highlands, The Time of Your Life, The Beautiful People, and The Human Comedy. The Time of Your Life was awarded the Pulitzer.
Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources supports the teaching, learning and research mandates of the University through delivery of bibliographic and other information resources and services to faculty, students and staff. It is tackling the challenges of the digital age while continuing the development, preservation and conservation of its extensive print, media and manuscript collections.
The William Saroyan Foundation was founded by the author on December 30, 1966 and remains active under a Board of Trustees. Commencing in 1990, the Trustees set a goal of bringing together into one single archive his entire literary estate. A decision was finally made by the Trustees to offer Stanford University the assembled Saroyan Literary Collection with provisions that would safeguard in perpetuity one of the rare treasure troves in American literature, carrying on the legacy of Fresno, California’s own native son, William Saroyan. Deadline for entries: January 31, 2010
Metaphysics of Quality Study Day
Art and the Metaphysics of Quality in the writings of E H Gombrich and Robert M Pirsig takes place in Oxford on Saturday 24th October, and include a screening of two new films starring Pirsig as well as a series of talks drawing on his classic first novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
“I’m very pleased to know that Dr. Anthony McWatt and David Buchanan will be speaking at Oxford. They are the two foremost philosophers today on the Metaphysics of Quality and its implications for the guidance of humanity. General public understanding of this metaphysical system is still in its infancy and they deserve the careful, open-minded attention that early proponents of any idea need.” Robert M Pirsig - October 2009
Just published - The Next Big Thing: A Rough Guide to Things That Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time by Rhodri Marsden Penguin, October 09
The Next Big Thing points, laughs and winces at all those things that were suddenly deemed not that great after all. The guide is a tribute to the fad, the dead-end trend, the ephemeral nature of our beliefs, needs and aspirations. Choose your fad by era – Prehistory, Ancient Civilizations, The Middle Ages, Renaissance & Elizabethan, Georgian & Victorian, World Wars, The Post-War Years, The 1960s & 70s, The 1980s & 90s right through to today. Think about it: In the 1930s, men who played the clarinet were considered incredibly sexually attractive by young women. This is no longer the case. The Next Big Thing will tell you why.
A Rough Guide to things that seemed like a good idea at the time.
Pam Warren: The Lady in the Mask
Tonight Programme - Monday 5th October 8:00pm
The image of Pam Warren's injured face came to symbolise the Paddington rail crash when she was required to wear a plastic mask for 18 months after she suffered horrific burns. The scars have now healed but 10 years after the disaster that claimed 31 lives, TONIGHT explores whether the rail industry can convince her to travel by train again for the first time since the crash.
On 5th October 1999 a beautiful, happy young woman boarded a First Great Western train at Reading. Less than 22 minutes later Pam Warren’s world was turned upside down. The story of who Pam was and what happened next is an inspiring celebration of an extraordinary life both before, as well as after 'the incident'. Pam's courageous autobiography: FROM BEHIND THE MASK is represented by Lesley Pollinger.
Just Published: Attack of the Bum-Biting Sharks and The Purple Sluggy Worry Warts by Matt Kain
The first two books in the Quentin Quirks Magic Works series - Attack of the Bum-Biting Sharks and The Purple Sluggy Worry Warts by Matt Kain, published by Macmillan in August.
Attack of the Bum-Biting Sharks
The Purple Sluggy Worry Warts
Just Published – Lottie Biggs Is Not Mad
Painfully honest and laugh-so-hard-you-forget-to-breathe funny, Lottie Biggs is Not Mad is the first novel by Hayley Long, published today by Pan Macmillan.
My name is Lottie Biggs and in three weeks time I will be fifteen years old. At school, most people call me Lottie Not-Very-Biggs. I’ve never found this particularly funny... My current hair colour is Melody Deep Plum, which is not as nice as Melody Forest Flame but definitely better than the dodgy custard colour I tried last week... And this is my book – it’s about important things like boys and shoes and polo-neck knickers and rescuing giraffes and not fancying Gareth Stingecombe (even though he has manly thighs) and hanging-out with your best friend having a blatantly funny time. It is definitely not about sitting in wardrobes or having a mental disturbance of any kind…
A rich and inspirational life devoted to the development of mission, with her hand firmly held in God's hand.
After spending part of her childhood in Australia, Joy returned to England on a ship during the Second World War. While she was nursing at Manchester Royal Infirmary, she became involved with the Nurses Christian Fellowship and was instrumental in bringing many nurses to faith. Later she was one of the founders of the Navigators' work in England, when they expanded from the United States. Through her passion for mission and her innovative approach, she has led churches throughout the country to send and support missionaries in a structured, loving and practical way.
This book charts the Lord’s touch through a lifetime of innovative missionary work, in the everyday demands of career, family and church and her busy life as a great-grandmother in London
Through it all, she came to see that her hand has always been held firmly in His.
Just Published - You're Coming With Me Lad by Mike Pannett
Following on from the success of NOW THEN LAD, you can now enjoy further uplifting adventures of North Yorks rural policeman, Mike Pannett.
Radio 4 Book of the Week commencing 13 July 2009
Published by Hodder & Stoughton on the 25th June 2009
Just Published - Bete De Jour by Stand Cattermole
Based on his acclaimed blog, Bete De Jour is Stan Cattermole's extraordinary memoir about life as an ugly man, and his attempts to lose weight and find love. Already compared to Irvine Welsh and Martin Amis, Bete De Jour has been called one of the "most exciting literary talents of 2009".
Robert Sellers's follow-up to his best-selling Hellraisers. This time Robert focuses on the wild lives and fast times of four of Hollywood's greatest stars - Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper and Warren Beatty - cavorting, boozing and hoovering up everything in their paths. As Hopper said: "I should have been dead ten times over. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle I survived."
Metaphysics of Quality Study Day
The work of Robert Pirsig, author of Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals (Alma) will be the subject of a special study day at Oxford University in October.
Art and the Metaphysics of Quality in the writings of E H Gombrich and Robert M Pirsig takes place on Saturday 24th October, and will include a screening of two brand new films starring Robert as well as a series of talks drawing on his classic first novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Further details and a booking form can be downloaded here.
And if you can’t wait until October, you can watch a preview of On The Road With Robert Pirsig online by clicking here
Praise for Lila:
'Forming an outlook on life isn't all beer and skittles. By the time you've wondered what parts of a world view should be instinct or intellect, asked yourself if all perspective isn't just a product of bias and dogma, and then worked out that, in any event, the viewpoint you ended up with is no longer in service, nobody can blame you for seeking strong drink. This was roughly my position when I came upon Lila - Robert Pirsig's follow-up to the 1974 classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Pirsig continues his philosophical exploration in the form of a yacht journey down the Hudson river, accompanied by an easy woman - though her virtue is also open to argument. Written in everyday language, with searing disrespect for academia, this meandering holiday was a life-changer for me, both as a novel and a thesis. "When the pupil is ready, the master will appear." In a yacht. With a prostitute. Or is she?'
2003 Man Booker Prize Winner DBC Pierre,
writing in The Guardian, May 2009.
Wallflower Press
We are delighted to announce that two Wallflower Press titles have have made it on the list of Outstanding Academic Titles in Choice magazine, the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education in the US.
Congratulations to:
The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film
by Tamara Falicov
The International Film Guide 2008
edited by Ian Haydn Smith
Every year in its January issue, Choice publishes the list of Outstanding Academic Titles that were reviewed during the previous calendar year. The prestigious list reflects the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community. The list is quite selective, containing about 10 percent of some 7,000 works reviewed in Choice each year. The two Wallflower titles are among the 15 books listed in the film category.
Just Published: The Sleepyhead's Bedside Companion
Sean Coughlan's madly diverting compendium of all and everything related to sleep has just been published by Random House and serialized in the Daily Mail.
Born Evil
Kimberley Chambers's second novel is released simultaneously with the paperback of her first, BILLIE JO, and receives 5-star review in the News of the World - "Martina Cole watch out!"
Just Published: The Lion Book of Five-Minute Animal Stories
A colourful collection of ten animal stories from around the world, retold with wit and originality by John Goodwin.
Just Published: Roger Moore - My Word Is My Bond
The long-awaited autobiography of the 007 legend Roger Moore. After seven decades as an actor, Moore is telling his story. My Word Is My Bond is his humorous and anecdote-packed account of life as a world-famous film actor and UNICEF ambassador. To support the publication, Sir Roger is going on a world tour, with an appearance on the Jonathan Ross Show on Friday 10th October.
My Word Is My Bond (Michael O'Mara UK/Harper Collins USA)
Just Published: The Best of Punch Cartoons
A wonderful new selection of over 2000 cartoons - The Best of Punch Cartoons- selected from the complete 160-year history of the world-famous magazine. Beautifully produced, as a large format hardback, it makes the perfect Christmas gift (Carlton)
Incarceron Longlisted for Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008
Catherine Fisher's Incarceron (Hodder) has been longlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008. The prize was launched in 2003 to recognise and celebrate contemporary fiction written for teenagers and is judged by a mixed panel of adults and teenagers. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in London on the 18th of November 2008.
Billie Jo - Kimberley Chambers
Just published by Random House, Kimberley's hard-hitting, heart-warming and funny debut novel Billie Jo. Set in east London, it's the story of a wealthy villain and his family, particularly the adored and adorable teenage daughter Billie Jo.
Tate To Tate - Tommy Penton
A book like no other, Tate To Tate is graphic artist Tommy Penton's illustrated walk along the south bank of the Thames. A wonderful panorama, beautifully and accurately represented, it follows the Thames from Tate Modern to Tate Britain, east or west. Just published by Jonathan Cape.
Hellraisers serialized in The Daily Mail
Robert Sellers's Hellraisers - The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, O'Toole, Harris and Reed has just been the subject of a three-day feature in the Daily Mail. Published by Preface on 29 May, Hellraisers is the wildly entertaining story of four of the greatest boozers that ever walked - or staggered - into a pub.
Daniel Davies's The Isle of Dogs published on 22 May
Daniel Davies's brilliant, candid and controversial debut novel The Isle of Dogs is published by Serpent's Tail on 22 May.
"The Isle of Dogs is a cool, dark, sexy night drive of a novel. Daniel Davies writes with the detachment and insight of a new J G Ballard"- Toby Litt
Blood of Dreams nominated for another award
Susan Parisi's Blood of Dreams has been nominated for the prestigious Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel. The award will be announced at a ceremony in Toronto on 8 June.
Nicholas Rhea receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Nicholas Rhea (true name Peter Walker), creator of the Constable series of books that inspired TV drama Heartbeat, was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Yorkshire Rural Awards on 22 May 2008. Mr Walker, aged 72, was presented with his award by author and raconteur Gervaise Phinn. He said: ‘The Yorkshire Rural Awards are highly significant because they reflect the work, skills and enterprise of people within the county. I feel extremely proud and honoured to be included in this year’s presentations.’
Nicholas Rhea holding
his award alongside
Sir Ken Morrison
(Photo courtesty of
Coppice Publishing)
Susan Parisi's Blood of Dreams Wins Best Horror Novel
Susan Parisi's wonderful debut novel BLOOD OF DREAMS has won the 2007 Best Horror Novel category at the prestigious Aurealis Awards. The awards celebrate the best of science fiction and genre fiction.
On accepting her award, Susan said: "Blood of Dreams is the sort of story that reclines on a chaise longue sipping champagne from a slipper. It's indolent horror. Some readers like the dark love story. Others see it as an historical murder mystery. Either way, the menace is there from the start but the horror is a shadowy presence in the corner that eventually takes over the room.I'm very proud to receive an award that acknowledges the gothic heart of this story. Thank you very much."
Joe Cawley's More Ketchup Than Salsa
Joe Cawley's More Ketchup Than Salsa wins the Best Narrative Book at the British Guild of Travel Writers Awards.
More Ketchup Than Salsa: Confessions On A Tenerife Barman (Summersdale) tells Joe's funny and salutary story of his and his girlfriend's adventures running a bar on the island of Tenerife, and their struggles with the booze-sodden Brits abroad. Dramatic rights are available through Pollinger Limited.
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher Nominated For Carnegie Medal
Catherine Fisher's INCARCERON (Hodder) is nominated for the 2008 Carnegie Medal. Now in it's 70th year, the Medal is one of the most prestigious of all awards for children's literature. The shortlist will be announced in April.
Hodder | £5.99 | 978-0-340-89360-9
Pollinger starts publishing ebooks!
Following the success of Pollinger in Print titles, we are making the most of our authors’ work by publishing ebooks in partnership with Summersdale Press. The digital landscape is changing, and our authors are ready. The following books are currently available from our bookshop - The Seer's Stone, Wee Malkie, Master of Dryford, False Enchantment and Childbirth Without Fear.
All the titles are available in Adobe Reader, MS Reader, Palm and Mobipocket, so you can read them on your computer or your pda, or your Sony eReader or Illiad. Most of the Pollinger in Print titles will go into ebook, following on from their print-on-demand publication. They are on sale in all major ebook retailers around the world. In the UK you can buy them at WHSmithsOnline, via the Pollinger Bookshop.
Angela Kanter's new young reader The Princess and the Pets
Princess Mina really wants a pet. Can her fairy godmother make her wish come true? Part of Kingfisher's "I am reading" series.
Kingfisher | £4.99 | 978-0753414675
Michael Coleman's new young adult novel just published
by Orchard
"A fast-moving dramatic adventure, a sharp satire on our celebrity culture and a vigorous defence of our intellectual freedom"
- Gillian Cross Raul and his sister Arym live in a nurture-house - cared for by the state, they have never known family life. It's a simple existence, until one day Raul finds he can no longer suppress his doubts about the regime that surrounds him.
Suddenly Raul and Arym are thrust into a very different life, one that will test the limits of their strength and the power of their beliefs ...
Orchard | £8.99 | 978-1846163449
Catherine Fisher's CORBENIC wins the 2007 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
At the awards dinner last night in Berkeley, California, Catherine Fisher's new novel Corbenic (Harper, 2006) won America's most prestigious fantasy award. The judges selected her novel, from a shortlist of six nominees, including Terry Pratchett and Diana Wynne Jones. On receiving the award Catherine said: "Since encountering the Holy Grail in Malory as a child I have been fascinated by the complexities of the legend, and it has been a long-held ambition to write a Grail romance of my own ... Thank you for your support and recognition."
David Lale's stunning debut novel just published
Last Stop Salina Cruz, David Lale's first novel has just been published by Alma Books. Centring on the real life story of the notorious poet-boxer Arthur Cravan, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in Mexico in 1918, it follows a young man's journey, ninety years later, as he retraces Cravan's footsteps in the hope of shedding some light on his final moments.
Alma | £12.99 | 978-1846880322
William Heath Robinson's Contraptions
A fascinating and original new selection of William Heath Robinson's much-loved and influential humorous drawings, just published by Duckworth and edited by Geoffrey Beare. The British are still a nation of garage-haunting amateur engineers who will recognise the inhabitants of Heath Robinson's world, with their pot bellies and pots of tea, archaic faces and sturdily commonsensical approach to the problems of existence. How to hunt tigers by elephant, how to get an even tan, rise with the sun or put out a chimney fire, these and many more pressing questions are answered in the pages of Contraptions.
Duckworth | £18.99 | 978-0715636947
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Just published by Hodder, Catherine Fisher's extraordinary and exciting new novel for young adults, set in the vast and sealed world of Incarceron.
D.H Lawrence's The First Women In Love published for the first time in paperback
As part of the launch of the new Oneworld Classics series, Alma have reissued Lawrence's first version of Women In Love. Written before WW1, and rejected by all Lawrence's publishers because they felt it was obscene, The First Women In Love is far more optimistic and very different to the the version we know, published in the aftermath of the Great War.
Oneworld Classics| £8.99 | 978-1847490056
New from Kelly McKain and Scholastic
Launched on 2 April, an exciting new series for girls aged 6-9 by Kelly McKain.
It is every little girls dream come true. When Katie gets a doll's house, the last thing she expects is for real fairies to move in. Could Snowdrop, Bluebell, Rosehip and Daisy become Katie's new best friends? And they soon need her help …
Highly collectable, £5.99 hardbacks with cut out covers and real petal skirts, Fairy Friendsand Fairy For A Day are published on 2 April, another two on 4 June with two more scheduled for later in the year.
Fairy Friends House | Scholastic | £5.99 | 978-0439943505
Michael Coleman's The Howling Tower wins the Birmingham "Imagines" Book Award
In a competition voted for entirely over the internet by children, Michael Coleman saw off stiff competition, "splatting" Michael Morpurgo and Malorie Blackman, to win this year's award for The Howling Tower, the first volume of his Bearkingdom Trilogy (Orchard, 2006). Michael says: "I'm absolutely delighted! I've been tracking the website on and off. Its been great fun reading the comments and checking to see whether I've been splatted."
The Howling Tower | Orchard | £4.99 | 978-1843629382
Wasim Khan's Brim Full Of Passion wins Wisden Cricket Book of the Year 2007
Wasim has won Wisden's highest accolade for his moving and honest life story of being the first British-born Asian to play professional cricket. Published by Breedon Books, the Telegraph called it "a very good book indeed". Wasim says: "It's a fantastic honour to be recognised in this way. I hope my tale encourages others to make the best of what they have, and not be put off by the knocks that life invariably delivers".
Brim Full of Passion | Breedon Books | £16.99 | 1 85983 508 2
Lady Chatterley sweeps the awards at the Cesars
The new French film adaptation of D H Lawrence's classic novel has just won five major awards, including best film and best actress, at the Cesars - the French Oscars. The new film, directed by the highly acclaimed French director Pascale Ferran, has been an enormous critical and commercial success since its release before Christmas, and was a featured film at the Berlin Film Festival, which Lesley Pollinger attended as a guest speaker on a panel discussion on literary adaptations. Lady Chatterley (based on THE SECOND LADY CHATTERLEY) will be released later this year in the UK (Artificial Eye).
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand published in Penguin Modern Classics
Ayn Rand's story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls has just been reissued by Penguin. First published in 1943, this best-selling novel is a passionate defense of individualism and presents an exalted view of man's creative potential; it is a book about ambition, power, gold and love. Publication: February 2007
Andrew Dalton - The Lost People Of Malplaquet
In Andrew Dalton's inventive enchanting sequel to The Temples of Malplaquet, the mysteries surrounding the Lilliputians grow deeper and young Jamie faces new challenges in protecting his diminutive friends. Publication of this second book in the Malplaquet trilogy, again beautifully illustrated by Jonny Boatfield, January 2007.
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John Goodwin - The Lion Book of Christmas Stories
Ten stories about the very first Christmas, retold with humour and originality.
John Goodwin Arkful of Animals
Just published by Lion Children's Books, John Goodwin's witty, expressive text about cute but cheeky animals is great for reading aloud, and is perfectly complemented by instantly appealing illustrations from Tina MacNaughton, who is much-loved for her warm and cuddly animal paintings.
Writing for Children
Just published by Hodder Headline, Lesley Pollinger and Allen Frewin Jones's brilliant, near-classic guide to Writing for Children, now in its fourth edition. First published in 1988, it has now sold over 40000 copies.
Four Pollinger Limited Titles in the Top 20
Pollinger Limited are thrilled to see four of their authors' books in the official Children's Top 20 (w/e 23 June 2006), with Michael Coleman's Wicked World Cup 2006 at number 6. Two of Sue Mongredien's Daisy Meadows titles, Katie the Kitten Fairy and Penny the Pony Fairy, are at number 9 and 11, and Michael Coleman's other world cup tie in, England: All the Foul Facts (Scholastic) is at number 20. Well done to them both.
Angus McBean - Facemaker
Just published by Alma Books, Adrian Woodhouse's authoritative biography of the world-famous photographer Angus McBean. Adrian has recently appeared on Loose Ends, and the book has achieved very good media coverage in the nationals and magazines, including articles in Vogue, Gay Times and the Times.
Angus McBean Facemaker | Alma Books | £17.99 | 1846880084
Pollinger and Punch Join Forces
Pollinger Limited are very pleased to announce that they have been appointed exclusive agents for Punch, with responsibility for all future book- and print-related projects derived from Punch’s extensive and unique archive.
Punch magazine was a very British institution with an international reputation for its witty and irreverent take on the world. The Punch Cartoon Library is the world’s best and largest repository of cartoon art available for licensing.
Lesley and Ruth were the only British agents to attend the Monaco book-to-film forum, the new international event that gives agents and publishers the opportunity to meet with dozens of film and TV producers and executives from around the globe.
