Ampersand News

Bloomsbury's new "unashamedly literary" imprint, Circus, will be launched on May 10th with Will Davis's latest "incredibly accomplished" novel, "The Trapeze Artist", whose aerialist theme is reflected in the Circus logo. January 2012

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S. J. Bolton has been nominated for the fourth year running for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. "Now You See Me" is one of five novels on the 2012 shortlist. January 2012

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We celebrate the new year with the sale of Mark Robert's debut thriller to Atlantic Books, where Sara O'Keeffe, the new head of crime imprint Corvus, pre-empted other interested publishers. And we're delighted to report that two of Angela Thirkell's early Barsetshire novels, "High Rising" and "Wild Strawberries", will appear later this year as Virago Modern Classics. January 2012

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"Now You See Me", S. J. Bolton's most recent thriller, is one of twelve books in the Mystery category selected by the influential American booktrade publication Kirkus' Best Books of 2011. December 2011

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Sorry we haven't updated this page for a while, but our latest news is that our new thriller writer Mark Roberts' terrifying "Crimson Harvest" has been sold to Italy and Germany; that Ampersand have just been appointed agents for the Estate of the wonderful Angela Thirkell; that Vanessa Curtis's latest book "The Baking Life of Amelie Day" has been sold to Frances Lincoln; that Berkley will be publishing the second in Liz Bailey's romantic Regency crime series; and that Helen Black's standalone thriller "2012" will come out in time for the London Olympics, which feature heavily in the plot. November 2011

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Cora Harrison's crime series set in 16th-century Ireland continues as two further books have been contracted by Severn House. July 2011

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Transworld have signed up S. J. Bolton for three more books. July 2011

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The Buckman Agency has sold some of Georgette Heyer's Regency novels to South Korea, the first time she will have been published in that country. July 2011

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Cutting Edge Press will publish two contemporary novels by Welsh writer Beverley Jones, "Telling Stories" and "Holiday Money". July 2011

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Mehrnaz Stars' "Woman Master", a haunting story of three generations of Iranian women in the time of the Shah, will be published by Cutting Edge Press.  July 2011

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Richard Pierce's first novel "Dead Men", about the search for the bodies of Scott of the Antarctic and his companions, will be published by Duckworth in March 2012, a hundred years after Scott's death. July 2011

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"Blood Harvest" has made it to the shortlist of the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. In addition, S. J. Bolton's work has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library Award. July 2011

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"The Montgomery Murder" has won the Lancashire Fantastic and East Sussex Children's Book of the Year Awards. And Macmillan have signed up Cora for "Debutantes", two books about four sisters whose different talents make them bound to succeed in the fledgling British film industry in the 1920s. May 2011

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Transworld have signed up Henry Venmore-Rowland for two historical novels set around the time of the Emperor Nero. April 2011

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Cora Harrison has won the Hillingdon Secondary Schools Book Award for her children's crime novel "The Montgomery Murder". March 2011

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Caroline Walton's "The Besieged", her record of conversations with survivors of the siege of Leningrad, will be published by Biteback to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the siege's start. March 2011

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S. J. Bolton's "Blood Harvest" has been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award in the U.S., which is part of the prestigious Edgar Awards for crime writing. This is the third time Sharon has been nominated; her novel "Awakening" was last year's winner. February 2011