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DECEMBER
2006
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More
US buzz for The Dead Fathers Club (Viking):
- Top 20 Book
Sense February Pick
- Borders Original Voices Selection
- Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers
- Starred reviews in Kirkus Review, Publishing
News and Booklist
- US dates confirmed so far:
1st February 2007 Portland, Oregon - venue
TBC
February 6th 2007 New York - Barnes &
Noble
I'll also be doing events in San Francisco
and Boston in early Feb.
I'll post more details when I get them.
Just heard that The Dead Fathers Club Turkish
translation rights have gone to Altin Kitaplar.
NOVEMBER 2006
Things
hotting up in the US for Feb launch of The
Dead Fathers Club:
- Starred review in the Kirkus Review - they
end by saying 'We now owe another debt to
Shakespeare, and one to Haig, for re-imagining
a tragic masterpiece with such wit, force
and - yes - originality.' See here.
- Nice review from Andrew Wheeler, senior
editor at the Science Fiction Book Club in
the US - read it here.
- The novel has been chosen for the Barnes
& Noble Discover Great New Writers campaign.
And also the Italian translation rights for
Shadow Forest have gone to De
Agostini.
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OCTOBER 2006
The
Dead Fathers Club is one of the six titles that
have been chosen for Viking's Flights
of Fiction campaign. You can listen
to an interview here
or watch the video and my tour of Newark (the
setting of the novel) here.
SEPTEMBER 2006
Shadow
Forest will be published in France by Bayard
sometime soon.
JULY
2006
Shadow
Forest is to be published in America by Penguin
Putnam in July next year. It will be called
Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest. Read
more about the novel here.
MAY 2006
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edition
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The
movie rights to The Last Family in England have
been optioned by Brad Pitt's movie company,
Plan B and Paramount. To read more about the
book click here.
Other news:
The German translation rights for The Dead Fathers
Club have been sold to Goldmann - Random House.
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MARCH/APRIL 2006
The
movie rights to The Dead Fathers Club have
been optioned by film producer David Heyman,
the man behind the Harry Potter movies. To
read more about the book click here.
Other news:
The German translation rights for Shadow Forest
have been sold to Bertlesmann - Random House.
The Czech translation rights for The Last
Family in England have been sold to Argo.
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FEBRUARY/MARCH 2006
The
Last Family in England is published in hardback
in Germany, by Page & Turner - Bertelsmann
Random House. It is called 'Fur immer, euer
Prince.' To read more about the book in German
click here.
This month The Last Family in England is also
published in hardback in Japan and you can
find out more in Japanese here.
Click
here
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