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The
American publishers Berkley have acquired world rights in Elizabeth Bailey’s
distinctive and original crime series set in Georgian England, which will
begin with “The Four-Poster Shroud”. September 2010
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Ivo
Stourton’s new novel, “The Book Lover’s Tale”, a
story of obsession, sex, and death, will be published next June by
Doubleday. September 2010
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St
Martin’s Press have bought North American rights to “The
Prisoner’s Wife” by Gerard Macdonald. September 2010
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Dame
Ellen MacArthur has agreed to write the Foreword to Sarah Outen’s
“A Dip in the Ocean”, which will be published next February
by Summersdale. September 2010
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S
J Bolton’s “Blood Harvest” is in the final line-up of
four novels selected from a short list of eight for the 2010 Gold Dagger
Award, presented for the best crime novel of the year written originally
in English. The award ceremony will be televised on ITV in October. Also, Japanese rights in her first
three novels have just been sold. August
2010
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Cora
Harrison’s children’s book “The Montgomery
Murder” has been shortlisted for the Hillingdon Book Award. August 2010
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Vanessa
Curtis’s latest book, a contemporary ghost story called “The
Haunting of Tabitha Grey”, has been bought by Egmont after a small
bidding war. August 2010
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S
J Bolton’s latest novel “Blood Harvest” is shortlisted
for the highly influential Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger
Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. July 2010
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Bina
Shah’s novel “Slum Child” recently reached no 4 in the
Italian paperback bestseller charts, and her latest novel “A Season
for Martyrs” has won an Italian award for translated fiction. June 2010
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Philip
Barclay’s “Zimbabwe:
Years of Hope & Despair”, a personal account of his time as a
British diplomat serving in Harare from
2006-9, has just been published by Bloomsbury.
It was the subject of a favourable review in the Sunday Times, spread
across two pages, and is already climbing steadily up the Amazon charts. June 2010
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Summersdale
have snapped up “An Ocean to Row”, Sarah Outen’s story
of her gruelling solo row across the Indian Ocean.
The book will be published in the Spring of 2011, just before Sarah sets
off on her next adventure, a circumnavigation of the globe using human
power alone. June 2010
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Vanessa
Curtis’s “Zelah Green” – just reissued by Egmont
in a smart new cover – has been longlisted for yet another prize,
the Young Minds Book Award 2010. Copies will be sent to book groups and
schools across the country for young people to review, and a panel of
three children’s authors and three young readers will decide on the
winner. May 2010
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Vikas
Swarup, author of the much garlanded, Oscar-winning “Slumdog
Millionaire”, is on a European tour to promote his second novel
“Six Suspects”, which will take him (volcanic ash permitting)
to Finland, Holland, Sweden,
Italy, Spain, Portugal,
and France.
May 2010
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We’ve
decided to discontinue the Ampersand Blog, because it wasn’t doing
what we hoped, and attracting readers to buy and comment on our
clients’ books. But we shall keep this News page up-to-date, and it
will be linked to Twitter, which we hope will spread the word about
Ampersand throughout cyberspace. April
2010
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S
J Bolton’s second thriller “Awakening” has won the
prestigious Mary Higgins Clark Award in America. And her new novel
“Blood Harvest” was chosen as Thriller of the Month by The
Observer and has received excellent reviews in the US as well as the UK. April 2010
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Arrow
Books have renewed their contract to publish all Georgette Heyer’s
works, which means that her 52 novels – Regency romances,
historical novels, and crime – will be available for fans new and
old. April 2010
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The
latest in Cora Harrison’s series of crime stories set in medieval
Ireland, “Eye of the Law”, featuring Mara, the feisty Brehon
(investigating magistrate) of the Burren, has just been published by
Severn House, who are signing up to publish two more Burren books. April 2010
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The
second volume of Winifred Foley’s autobiography, republished by
Abacus as “Shiny Pennies & Grubby Pinafores”, has reached
number 4 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List. April 2010
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Vanessa
Curtis has just won the Manchester Children's Book Award for 2010. And
she has been longlisted for the Branford Boase Award. March 2010.
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"Awakening",
S. J. Bolton's second novel, has been nominated in the U.S. for the Mary Higgins
Clark Award 2010, which is linked to the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe
Awards. This is the second year running that Sharon's work has received a
nomination. January
2010
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"Zelah Green: Queen
of Clean" by Vanessa Curtis is one of the six titles shortlisted for
the Manchester Children's Book Award, as well as being on the shortlist
of seven for the Bolton Book Award. December
2009
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Helen Black has just
signed a three-book deal with Constable & Robinson, who will publish two
stand-alone crime novels as well as the fourth book in the Lilly
Valentine series, which has been optioned to The Producers Productions
Ltd. December 2009
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English-language
rights in Bina Shah's "Slum Child" have been bought by
Westland-Tata for the sub-continent of India. December 2009
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Recent foreign
rights deals made for Ampersand authors by The Buckman Agency include: Beverley Jones's "Telling Stories"
sold to Germany and Holland; "Time Acrobats" by Polychronis
Koutsakis sold to Russia;
and S J Bolton's new novel "Blood Harvest" sold to Italy and Denmark. December
2009
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Piccadilly Press have
signed up Cora Harrison for two more books in her London Murder Mysteries
series. December 2009
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Vanessa Curtis has been
commissioned by Frances Lincoln to write two books, beginning with
"The Taming of Lilah May." December
2009
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The
Guardian has said of Philip
Barclay's writing: "In a series of passionate dispatches, the
British Embassy's former second secretary in Harare, Philip Barclay, vividly described
his impressions of life under Robert Mugabe. His limpid style has little
in common with bureaucratese; instead he writes in shimmering and
virtuoso foreign correspondent prose." November 2009
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J. D. Davies has won the
2009 Samuel Pepys Award for his authoritative history of "Pepys's
Navy". October
2009
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Winifred Foley's
"Full Hearts & Empty Bellies", the first volume in her
autobiographical "Forest"
trilogy, has been longlisted for The Times/W H Smith Paperback of the
Year. September 2009
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TV rights to Georgette
Heyer's Regency novels have been optioned by Big Strand Productions and
Choosy Films, to be directed by Sheree Folkson ("Casanova"). September 2009
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S. J. Bolton's
"Sacrifice" has been selected as one of three finalists for the
Prix Polar, in the European crime fiction section. And German rights to
her next two books have been sold to Goldmann. September 2009
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TV rights to Vanessa
Curtis's "Zelah Green: Queen of Clean" have been optioned by
the BBC. The book has been shortlisted for the Nasen/TES Inclusive
Children's Book Award, and longlisted for the Manchester Children's Book
Award. September 2009
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Quentin Bates' Icelandic
crime series has been snapped up by Constable & Robinson in a two-book
deal. German rights have been sold to Luebbe. August 2009
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