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& Anne-Marie Doulton
Consultants:
Peter Janson-Smith 
& Patrick Neale

 


Ampersand News
 

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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