24/04/12 MARK BILLINGHAM NEW BOOK
Following hot on the heels of Good As Dead , which went straight to number one in The Sunday Times Adult Fiction Bestseller Chart first in hardback, and then in paperback, is the news of Mark’s forthcoming standalone thriller, Rush of Blood , published this summer by Little, Brown. Here is a brilliant video of Mark talking about the new book:
23/03/12 PLENTY AND OTTOLENGHI: THE COOKBOOK BOTH ON DUTCH BESTSELLER LIST
Both Plenty and Ottolenghi: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi are in positions 4 and 5 respectively in the Dutch Culinary Top 10 during the Dutch National Bookweek!
08/03/12 MR CHARTWELL WINS COVENTRY INSPIRATION BOOK AWARD
Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt has won the Word of Mouth category for the favourite reading group-nominated title in the Coventry Inspiration Book Awards, beating A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini in a public vote.
27/02/12 CATALAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS TO SECRETS OF THE TIDES
Catalan translation rights to Secrets of The Tides by Hannah Richell have been sold by Teresa Vilarrubla at The Foreign Office to ARA Llibres.
23/02/12 YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD SOLD IN ITALY
After a four-way auction, Italian translation rights to Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest have been sold by Alessandra Mele at Grandi e Associati to Piemme.
23/02/12 YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD SOLD IN HUNGARY
Hungarian translation rights to Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest have been sold by Judit Hermann at Andrew Nurnberg to Athenaeum.
10/02/12 GERMAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS FOR YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD
German translation rights to Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest have been sold by Diana Stuebs at Agentur Petra Eggers to Austrian-based Deuticke, an imprint of Hanser, in a pre-empt deal.
08/02/12 OTTOLENGHI IN THE HUFFINGTON POST
There is a lovely piece about Ottolenghi’s books and restaurants in The Huffington Post, which includes a video of Ramael Scully, head chef at NOPI, discussing his relationship with Yotam.
07/02/12 WATCH THE TRAILER FOR THE DEMON’S WATCH BY CONRAD MASON
You can now watch the fantastic book trailer for The Demon’s Watch here . The book is published in the UK by David Fickling Books on 1st March and in autumn by Random House in the US. In 2013 the book will be published in Spain and Catalonia by SM, and in Germany by Rowohlt.
26/01/12 AUDIO BOOK OF SECRETS OF THE TIDES
We are delighted to announce that Emilia Fox will be reading Secrets of The Tides in the forthcoming audio book.
24/01/12 MR CHARTWELL NOMINATED FOR US PRIZE
Mr Chartwell has been nominated by Quality Paperback Book Club for their New Voices (fiction) awards, which honor the most distinctive and promising works of noteworthy fiction offered by the Quality Paperback Book Club in 2011.The winner will be announced late Spring/Early Summer and the award is for $2,500.00 Past winners of the QPB New Voices Award have included David Foster Wallace, Chang-rae Lee, Hannah Tinti and Vikram Seth.
11/01/12 BOXER, BEETLE WINS A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman has been awarded the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction by the Jewish Book Council. The award will be presented at a ceremony in Manhattan in March. A full list of winners can be found here
8/12/11 THE DEMON’S WATCH SOLD IN SPAIN
The Demon’s Watch by Conrad Mason has been sold by Teresa Vilarrubla at The Foreign Office to Spanish publisher Grupo SM, who plan to publish both a Spanish and a Catalan edition of the book in October 2012.
18/11/11 MISTAKEN WINS IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR
Mistaken by Neil Jordan was awarded Irish Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. The awards were announced at a gala dinner held in Dublin last night, and for the first time, the highlights from the awards ceremony are to be broadcast on Irish television channel RTE on the 24th November. The full list of winners can be seen here .
17/11/11 BOXER, BEETLE WINS WRITERS GUILD PRIZE
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman was awarded Best Fiction Book at The Writers Guild Awards in a ceremony held last night at the Tabernacle. The full list of winners can be found here
08/11/11 L&R AUTHORS LONGLISTED FOR IMPAC AWARD
Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt, and Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist, have both been longlisted for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The full list of nominees can be found here . The shortlist will be announced on the 12th April 2012, and the prize will be awarded on the 13th June.
25/10/11 TWO L&R AUTHORS MAKE WBN GIVEAWAY LIST
We are delighted to announce that Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham and Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist are two of the 25 books that will be given away during World Book Night on 23rd April. The full list can be found here
21/10/11 MISTAKEN MAKES SHORTLIST
Mistaken, by Neil Jordan has made the shortlist for The Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year at The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2011. The awards ceremony will take place in Dublin’s RDS on Thursday November 17th 2011 and will be televised for the first time by RTÉ Television on Thursday, November 24th at 10.45pm.
13/10/11 PLENTY WINS OBSERVER FOOD MONTHLY AWARD
Plenty, by Yotam Ottolenghi was awarded Best Cookbook at the annual Observer Food Monthly Awards at a ceremony in London yesterday evening.
10/10/11 DEMON’S WATCH SOLD IN GERMANY
German rights to Conrad Mason’s children’s book The Demon’s Watch have been sold by Diana Stuebs of Agentur Petra Eggers on behalf of Lutyens & Rubinstein to Rowohlt, in a pre-emptive two book deal.
5/10/11 ME AND MR BOOKER SOLD TO SANDSTONE PRESS
Jane Finigan has sold UK rights for Cory Taylor’s Me and Mr Booker, on behalf of Text in Australia, to Sandstone Press.
27/09/11 PLENTY SOLD IN RUSSIA
Yotam Ottolenghi’s latest cookbook Plenty has just been sold to Civiliazaçao in Portugal by Ebury Press. The book is also published, or soon to be published, in Germany, Holland, Russia and North America.
26/09/11 JOHN LINDQVIST APPEARING AT FANTASYCON IN BRIGHTON
John Ajvide Lindqvist will be appearing as a guest of honour at FantasyCon 2011, held in Brighton this weekend. He will be speaking about his new novel, Little Star, which has just been published by Quercus.
15/09/11 DEBUT NOVEL PENELOPE SOLD TO VIRAGO
Rebecca Harrington’s début novel Penelope, set at Harvard and following an academic year in the life of the eponymous heroine, is a deeply funny satirical take on life at a top-class university. Rights have been sold by Jane Finigan at Lutyens & Rubinstein to Ursula Doyle at Virago in the UK; Jenny Jackson at Random House in the US via David Forrer at InkWell; Friederike Schilbach at Bloomsbury in Germany via Petra Eggers at Agentur Petra Eggers; and Einaudi in Italy via Grandi e Associati.
07/09/11 MARK BILLINGHAM ON ITV3
Tonight ITV3 shows the first episode of a four part series called ‘The A-Z of Crime’. The series ties in with ITV3’s Crime Thriller Season, leading up to The Crime Thriller Awards, for which Mark is shortlisted. Mark, along with the other shortlisted writers, will be talking about crime fiction in each episode.
03/09/11 MR CHARTWELL IS TIMES BOOK CLUB’S BOOK OF THE MONTH
Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt has been selected by The Times Book Club as their September Book of the Month. It will be discussed by different Times writers each week in the Saturday Review section of the paper. In her introduction this Saturday, The Times Book Club editor Alyson Rudd praised the novel’s “audacious spirit”.
19/08/11 FREE MARK BILLINGHAM AUDIOBOOK DOWNLOAD
To tie in with the publication of Mark Billingham’s new novel Good As Dead, subscribers to The Times can download a free audiobook of the earlier Thorne novel Scaredy Cat along with a chapter from the latest book.
18/08/11 VIDEO TRAILER FOR SUMMER OF THE BEAR
Bella Pollen’s The Summer of the Bear is Richard and Judy’s featured Summer Read, starting today. Learn more about the fascinating real life events that inspired the book in a new video trailer here
12/07/11 BOXER, BEETLE SOLD IN SPAIN
El Funambulista have just bought Spanish rights to Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman via The Foreign Office. El Funambulista join Sceptre (UK), Bloomsbury (USA), DuMont (Germany), Sironi (Italy), Domingo (Turkey) and Euromedia (Czech Republic) in the list of Beauman’s foreign publishers.
01/07/11 FROM THE DEAD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR
Mark Billingham’s latest novel, From the Dead , is one of just five books shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The winner of the prize will be announced on the opening night of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate on Thursday 21st July.
08/06/11 BOXER, BEETLE WINS BEST BOOK COVER AT V&A AWARDS
Lorenzo Petrantoni’s cover for Ned Beauman’s novel Boxer, Beetle won Best Book Cover at the V&A Illustration Awards last night. Judge Francesca Gavin described the jacket as “so bold – like Kafka through the eyes of Dashiell Hammett”. Each award winner received a £2, 000 prize and all the winning artwork will be displayed for free in the V&A’s 20th-Century Galleries until 17 December.
06/06/11 DEBUT NOVEL SOLD TO ORION
World English rights in Hannah Richell’s enthralling debut novel Secrets of the Tides have been sold at auction to Kate Mills at Orion, working together with Vaness Radnidge at Hachette Australia. Rights are now being fought over in France, Italy, Germany and Holland with more deals pending.
25/05/11 BOXER, BEETLE SHORTLISTED FOR DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman is one of just three books shortlisted today for the £10, 000 Desmond Elliott prize, awarded each year for a debut novel published in the UK. The winner will be announced on the 23rd June.
11/05/11 SUMMER OF THE BEAR SELECTED AS A RICHARD & JUDY SUMMER READ
We are delighted to announce that Bella Pollen’s latest novel, The Summer of the Bear, has been selected as a Richard & Judy Summer Read for 2011. This year, for the first time, each of the eight selected novels will be accompanied by a podcast containing interviews with the featured authors, available to download for free on iTunes.
06/05/11 PLENTY SHORTLISTED FOR AWARD
Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi has been shortlisted for the prestigious Guild of Food Writers ‘Cookery Book of the Year’ award. The award will be announced on Thursday 2nd June.
04/05/11 NEW VIDEO OF EMMA FORREST TALKING ABOUT YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD AT L&R BOOKSHOP
Emma Forrest Event at L&R from Anna Steadman on Vimeo.
19/04/11 BOXER, BEETLE LONGLISTED FOR DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman has been nominated for the £10, 000 Desmond Elliott prize, awarded each year for a debut novel published in the UK. A shortlist of three books will be announced on the 25th May and the winner will be announced on the 23rd June.
28/03/11 SYBILLE BEDFORD’S CENTENARY
The centenary of Sybille Bedford’s birth was celebrated by a glorious dinner in the cellar at Berry Bros and Rudd in St James at which many of Sybille’s favourite wines - Pol Roger champagne, a Maison Huegel Gewürztraminer, premier cru Chablis and Margaux and Pauillac clarets – were consumed. To read the issue of Five Dials which was launched that evening click here. A reading was also hosted at the Paris Review in New York (for links to that event and several fascinating blogs click here for the Sybille Bedford website). The centenary was also marked by pieces by Victoria Glendinning in the Observer, Nicholas Shakespeare in the Telegraph and Rosie Boycott in The Lady (all links on the Sybille Bedford site).
25/03/11 NEW TRANSLATION DEALS FOR EMMA FORREST AND REBECCA HUNT
We are delighted to announce that Gruner & Jahr have bought Polish rights in Emma Forrest’s wonderful, Your Voice in my Head. Also, Portuguese rights for Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt have just sold to Civilizaçao Editora, making them the seventh publisher to snap up translation rights in this fabulous first novel.
11/03/11 PETER RANSLEY’S PLAGUE CHILD TO BE BBC BOOK AT BEDTIME
Plague Child by has been selected as a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime for two weeks beginning 11th April.
09/03/11 RELEASE DATE FOR FILM OF SARA GRUEN’S WATER FOR ELEPHANTS
The long-awaited film of Water For Elephants starring Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon and the amazing Christoph Walz premieres in the UK on May 3rd and then goes on general release. To see the trailer go here.
07/03/11 TIM FLANNERY VISITS UK
Tim Flannery launches a week of events and talks about his new book Here On Earth, published by Penguin Press, with a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society on Monday 7th March at 6.30pm. Other events include: 8th March, 5.30pm at the James Martin School, Oxford; 9th March the keynote speech at the Chatham House Climate Change Forum,;10th March with Redmond O’Hanlon at the Royal Society of Arts at 6.45pm; 10th March, 6pm at the National Theatre (Lyttelton) in conversation; and finally in Bristol on the 11th March at the Festival of Ideas, Rosalind Franklin Room 400.
05/03/11 NED BEAUMAN AND REBECCA HUNT MAKE BBC LIST OF TWELVE MOST PROMISING NEW NOVELISTS
BBC2′s The Culture Show asked panel of five judges to choose twelve of the most promising debut novelists of recent years to appear on the show. Ned Beauman and Rebecca Hunt both made the list, and appeared in an episode of The Culture Show broadcast on national television on Saturday 5th March.
01/03/11 CRESSIDA CONNOLLY’S FIRST NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED IN AUGUST
Award-winning author Cressida Connolly has delivered her long-awaited first novel, My Former Heart, to Fourth Estate.
01/03/11 BETSY TOBIN’S CRIMSON CHINA OPTIONED FOR FILM
Film rights for Crimson China have been optioned by film-makers Nicola Hart and Gaby Tana.
01/03/11 MARK BILLINGHAM’S THORNE NOMINATED FOR AWARD
Congratulations to Thorne, the Sky television series starring David Morrissey and based on Mark Billingham’s best-selling novels which has been nominated for a broadcasting press guild award. This month it will air in Canada and next month in Australia.
27/02/11 SYBILLE BEDFORD CENTENARY
The centenary of Sybille Bedford’s birth is March 16th 2011. Mariella Frostrup will be talking to Amy Jenkins and Victoria Glendinning about the centenary of the birth of Sybille Bedford on Open Book. To hear Amy Jenkins declare that Quentin Tarantino would have been proud to write like Sybille Bedford click here.
26/02/11 DAVID FLUSFEDER AND JOHANNA ADORJAN AT JEWISH BOOK WEEK
Jewish Book Week 2011 runs from 26th February – 6th March. David Flusfeder will be speaking at True Tales at 9pm on Saturday 5th March and Johanna Adorjan will be talking about her book An Exclusive Love, published earlier this month by Harvill Secker.
21/02/11 EMMA FORREST’S YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD SOLD IN POLAND
After an exciting auction, Polish rights to Your Voice in My Head have been sold to Gruner & Jahr. The book, published by Bloomsbury in the UK, was recently published by Random House in Canada, where it has been getting fantastic reviews, and it will be published in the US by The Other Press in May.
14/02/11 OTTOLENGHI OPEN NEW RESTAURANT
Congratulations to Yotam Ottolenghi and his partners on the opening of their new restaurant, NOPI, in Soho. Click here for more details.
11/02/11 HAND ME DOWN WORLD BY LLOYD JONES SHORTLISTED FOR PRIZE
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones has been short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize (Pacific region). Winners of the different regions are announced in March.
12/01/11 MISTAKEN BY NEIL JORDAN TOPS BESTSELLER LIST
Mistaken by Neil Jordan is number one in the Irish Bestseller Original Fiction chart this week.
06/12/10 JANE HAYNES ON START THE WEEK
Jane Haynes appeared on Start the Week today to talk about the enduring relevance and appeal of Proust. Click here to listen
12/11/10 BOXER, BEETLE BY NED BEAUMAN SOLD TO BLOOMSBURY IN AMERICA
Ned Beauman’s debut novel Boxer, Beetle has been sold to Bloomsbury US through David Forrer at Inkwell Management. Ned is published by Sceptre here, and the book will be available in the US at the autumn of 2011.
10/11/10 OTTOLENGHI WINS GALAXY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Yotam Ottolenghi won the Tesco Food and Drink Book for the Year at the Galaxy Awards on Wednesday, November 10th, beating Nigella Lawson, Jamie Oliver and Rose Prince to the prize. Congratulations to Yotam, and to everyone at Ebury for making Plenty the best cookbook of the year!
29/10/10 NED BEAUMAN ON THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK SHORTLIST
Ned Beauman’s Boxer, Beetle is on the shortlist of the Guardian First Book Award! The award will be announced on the 1st December, and an interview with Ned was featured last week in the Guardian review, which you can read here
28/10/10 YOTAM OTTOLENGHI AND REBECCA HUNT SHORTLISTED FOR GALAXY NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
Two Lutyens & Rubinstein authors have made the shortlist for the Galaxy National Book Awards this year – Yotam Ottolenghi in the Tesco Food and Drink Book of the year category with his book Plenty, and Rebecca Hunt for the National Book Tokens New Writer of the Year Award with her novel Mr Chartwell.
27/08/10 NED BEAUMAN AND REBECCA HUNT LONGLISTED FOR GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD
L & R debut novelists Ned Beauman and Rebecca Hunt have both been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award! Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman was published by Sceptre on the 5th August, and Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt will be published by Fig Tree on the 7th October. The shortlist will be announced on the 29th October, and the winner will be announced at the awards ceremony on the 1st December.