Spring 2007
We’re delighted that two writers we represent, Tom Pow and Linda Cracknell, have been awarded the prestigious Creative Scotland Awards at a Scottish Arts Council ceremony on 8 March. Only ten awards, each worth £30,000, are made each year to established artists with a record of major achievement to allow them to work on new projects. Tom will be working on DYING VILLAGES, poems and prose pieces which will explore the phenomenon of dying villages across Europe. Linda’s project is a collection of journey-essays recounting a series of treks and walks in wild landscapes.
For more information about the awards, http://www.creativescotland.org.uk
Congratulations to Paul Torday whose debut novel SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (Weidenfeld) is no 6 on Sunday Times Fiction Bestseller list. Rights to the novel have now been sold in 16 different countries, and the book has been optioned for a feature film.
Des Dillon’s new comedy MONKS has its world premiere at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre 16 March – 7 April 2007. Luath Press publishes the novel of the same story in March. ‘Three Glaswegians arrive on an Italian mountain in search of a fabled monk with healing hands – they all have a history they want to put behind them…they all have secrets they can’t run away from…they know the monk wearing a ball and chain will be able to help them…but naebody said it wis gonnae be easy…! Bursting with west coast wit, this is a darkly uplifting story of redemption, where all are challenged to face their lives and find the peace they seek.’ http://www.lyceum.org.uk.
Recent deals by the agency include
Rodge Glass’s second novel HOPE FOR NEWBORNS has been bought by Faber (UK & Commonwealth), publishers of his debut NO FIREWORKS. HOPE FOR NEWBORNS will be published in May 2008, and Glass’s biography of Alasdair Gray will be published that autumn.
A new series of crime novels featuring feisty young lawyer Brodie MacLennan has been acquired by HarperCollins’ new Avon list. The authors are writing partnership Linda Watson-Brown and Maria Thomson. Four novels in the series have been acquired, and the first DARK ANGELS will be published in November 2007.
Mainstream publishes The OTHER Mrs Jordan in June, Mary Turner Thomson’s shocking true story of how one man expertly manipulated and deceived an intelligent, independent woman, conning her out of around £200,000 and leaving her near bankrupt to bring up the children he claimed he was physically incapable of fathering. William Allen Jordan is now serving a prison sentence for bigamy.
Posted on Apr 02, 2007 - 11:28 PM