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 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.

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.

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.

Princess Mina really wants a pet. Can her fairy godmother make her wish come true? Part of Kingfisher's "I am reading" series.

"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 ...

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."

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.

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.

Just published by Hodder, Catherine Fisher's extraordinary and exciting new novel for young adults, set in the vast and sealed world of Incarceron.

„ Read a new interview with Catherine in The Times here

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.

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.

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."

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".

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).

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

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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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.

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.