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March 18, 2008VENETIA SIGNS ON
March 18, 2008
I am delighted to announce that Venetia Thompson (pictured on the cover of the current issue of The Spectator) has joined my client list. Read her piece ‘A Sloane Ranger In Gangsta land’ here – Tired of Euro-Sloane bores in Chelsea, she tours the clubs of Harlesden, the UK’s ‘gun capital’, and experiences a world where a firearm is as normal a status symbol as a Chanel handbag or a Rolex watch would be in SW3. Venetia is working on a fantastic non-fiction proposal – more details soon.
THE FUTURE’S BRIGHT – THE FUTURE’S SCARLETT
March 18, 2008
Congratulations to Scarlett Thomas whose novel THE END OF MR Y is on the Orange Broadband Prize For Fiction Longlist 2008 announced today. She joins United Agents client Tessa Hadley, author of THE MASTER BEDROOM, and a host of other female authors to make up a list which aims to celebrate excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing. The Chairman of the Judges Kirsty Lang said “There is a great balance on this list, not only in its international reach and range of human experience, but also between first novels and some established writers that haven’t perhaps had the recognition they deserved”. The shortlist is announced on the 15th April and the winner, who receives a cheque for £30,000 and a trophy (the ‘Bessie’) is announced at a ceremony in London on June 4th. Read the rest of this entry »
KNEEDEEP IN RECORD HITS
March 17, 2008
If you haven’t done so already please visit the blisteringly honest blog Kneedeep In Knightsbridge (Life, Love and Trauma in SW3) written by our new client journalist Kate Sissons. KDIK is the factional blog of a 46 year old woman living in Central London who split up with the father of her child exactly one year ago after the pressure of living with his two year mental decline culminated in discovering his huge debts to the Inland Revenue. They were caused by his addiction to buying a bio-tech share listed on the AIM market called Proteome Sciences.The company and family house had to be sold to pay his debts. Kneedeep is the creation of journalist Kate Sissons and is regularly getting 100,000 hits a day.
Watch this space for news on the book front very soon….
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENE(R)
March 13, 2008
The most successful Irish debut of 2007, Niamh Greene’s laugh-out-loud SECRET DIARY OF A DEMENTED HOUSEWIFE (Penguin Ireland), has been shortlisted for two Irish Book Awards – in the The Galaxy Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year and the International Education Services Ltd Best Irish Newcomer of the Year categories. Read the rest of this entry »
GIRLS ON TOP
March 12, 2008
The Observer has released the 2008 list of The World’s 50 Top Bloggers and we are thrilled that both Petite Anglaise and Girl With A One Track Mind are both riding high. Read the full list here
Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby
March 12, 2008
Danny Wallace’s forthcoming novel FRIENDS LIKE THESE has been optioned by those nice people at Ruby Films. Miramax Films and Film4 have struck a development and production deal with Alison Owen and Paul Trijbits of Ruby Films, the British company behind The Other Boleyn Girl. Overall deal is Miramax’s first anywhere in the world since Daniel Battsek moved from Disney’s London office to run the studio’s specialty division in 2005. The three-year pact gives Miramax and Film4 first look to co-develop and co-produce Ruby features. Miramax will take worldwide rights to movies made under the partnership, with Film4 retaining U.K. TV rights. Read the full story here
SIAN AT TATE LIVERPOOL
March 10, 2008
Stanley Spencer is best known for his huge paintings that treat British village life in the manner of Renaissance frescoes, such as his masterpiece The Resurrection, Cookham, in which the lives (and deaths) of ordinary folk are tenderly offered up to our gaze. United Agents’ Author and Spencer fan Sîan Pattenden visited the current exhibition at Tate Liverpool and made a wonderful little film. Click on the screengrab to watch the whole thing.
SLUMMY MUMMY RIDES HIGH
March 10, 2008
Fiona Neil’s ‘The Secret Life Of A Slummy Mummy’ has risen to Number Three – its highest ever position in The Sunday Times paperback bestseller list, selling a whacking 21,000 copies.
ARTHUR C CLARKE SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED….
March 10, 2008
United Agents author Steven Hall is shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2008, the UK’s premier prize for science fiction literature alongside Stephen Baxter, Matthew de Abaitua, Sarah Hall, Ken MacLeod and Richard Morgan.
