Reasons to Stay Alive was a Sunday Times number one bestseller and the 2nd best-selling non-fiction book of 2016. Thanks to everyone who has bought it and for your very kind emails and letters. I do read them all and am slowly working my way through my replies. Apologies for taking so long!
SunnyMarch and Studiocanal have acquired the film rights to How to Stop Time. Cumberbatch is attached to star and executive produce through SunnyMarch, along with Jamie Byng, CEO of Canongate.
How to Stop Time will be published on 6th July 2017. You can order it here. Here’s the blurb from the back cover:
‘I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but you would be very wrong.’
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life.
Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover – working as a history teacher at a London comprehensive. Here he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first-hand. He can try and tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustn’t do is fall in love.
How to Stop Time is a wild and bittersweet story about losing and finding yourself, about the certainty of change and about the lifetimes it can take to really learn how to live.
More info on the movie stuff is here.
Thanks to the wonderful rights team at Canongate my books have found some lovely homes around the world. (For any further information on international rights please contact the Canongate Rights team.)
The American edition of Reasons to Stay Alive is published by Penguin and is available now.
Reasons to Stay Alive will be published by:
Argentina (World Spanish) by Emecé / Grupo Planeta
Brazil by Intrinseca
Canada by HarperCollins
China by Ginkgo Beijing Book
Croatia by Mazaik
Estonia by Varrak
Finland by Basam Books
France by Editions Philippe Rey
Germany by DTV
Greece by Patakis
Hungary by Libri Könyvkiadó Kft.
Israel by Matar
Italy by Ponte Alle Grazie (Mauri Spagnol)
Lithuania by Sofoklis
Netherlands by Lebowski
Norway by Libretto forlag
Poland by Sonia Draga
Portugal by Porto Editora
Slovakia by Premedia
South Korea by KPI Publishing
Spain Catalan by Editorial Empúries (Grup 62)
Sweden by Massolit
Taiwan by CommonWealth Magazine
Turkey by Kolektif
USA by Penguin
UK Large Print by F. A. Thorpe
A Boy Called Christmas is published in America by Knopf
A Boy Called Christmas will be available in:
Canada by HarperCollins
China by Xiron Books
Finland by Basam Books
France by Hélium Editions
Germany by DTV
Greece by Patakis
Hungary by Libri Könyvkiadó Kft.
Italy by Adriano Salani Editore (Mauri Spagnol)
Japan by Nishimura
Lithuania by Tyto Alba
Netherlands by Moon (Overamstel Uitgevers)
Norway by Cappelen Damm
Poland by Zysk
Portugal by Booksmile
Romania by Nemira
Russia by AST
Serbia by Vulkan
South Korea by Mirae-N
Spain by Destino Juvenil (Planeta)
Sweden by Alfabeta Bokforlag
Taiwan by Eastern Publishing
USA by Knopf BFYR (PRH)
The Humans is published by:
Brazil by Grupo Editorial Pensamento
Canada by HarperCollins
China by Xiron Culture and Development
France by Hélium Editions
Germany by DTV
Greece by Klidarithmos
Hungary by Pesci Direkt
Italy by Einuadi
Japan by Hayakawa
Poland by Dom Wydawniczy PWN
Russia by Sindbad Publishers
South Korea by Mirae-N
Spain by Roca Editorial
Spain Catalan by Editorial Empúries (Grup 62)
Sweden by Massolit
Taiwan by Spring International Publishers
Thailand by ClassAct Publishing
Turkey by Kolektif
USA by Free press (Simon & Schuster)
Large print America by Thorndike
UK Audio by Audible
UK Large Print by W. F. Howes
(Japanese cover of The Humans by Shinsuke Yoshitake)
