Recent Publications and News

New paperback edition published September 2011 to tie in with release of a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox, starring Anna Faris.

Mainstream, June 2011 in trade paperback. Serial rights sold to the Daily Mail

Transworld, May 2011 in hardcover. Second in the Pantera series. Publication strongly supported by the trade with promotions by Waterstone’s, Amazon, and W.H. Travel. ‘Scott’s writing is powerful and subtle, her characters have depth, the plot is impeccable and original’ The Times

Published by Mira Books May 2011, with supporting publicity. 'Fast paced and thrilling, with great romance' Bookbag. Also to be published by NAL in the US as Queen Defiant.

Headline, February 2011 in hardcover, mass-market publication in June 2011. ‘Just heavenly. Just Jill’ Spent 4 weeks in the top ten bestseller list, reaching the no. 2 spot. ‘You won’t put it down’ New Woman magazine

Grub Street, November 2010 in hardcover. First published in 1995, this collection of recipes with historical insight has become established as the definitive guide. The new edition has vastly updated and expanded material, and is now illustrated, with an introduction by Heston Blumenthal.

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Winner of the Cookery Book of the Year 2011 award from the Guild of Food Writers.

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Mainstream, April 2010 in trade paperback.  Good review coverage including ‘Woman's Hour’ interview and serialisation in the Daily Mail

Transworld, March 2011 in paperback. The 4th biggest selling debut novel as a hardcover is now available in paperback, backed by nationwide poster campaign and top positions in all major retailers.

See the author’s website:
http://www.mcscott.co.uk.

This is the first in a series of books to feature Pantera, a Roman spy. ‘Has the truth and honesty - and pain - of a cut made with a well-honed blade’ The Washington Times

Headline, February 2010 in hardcover and trade paperback, mass-market publication June 2010. Both hardcover and paperback editions were in the top 10 Sunday Times bestseller list.

Jill has recently visited Copenhagen and Mallorca. She is due to attend the Huishoudbeurs fair in Amsterdam in February 2011

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Winner of the Romantic Novelists’ Association award for best Romantic Comedy of 2011.

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Mira, May 2010 in trade paperback. ‘Better than Philippa Gregory’ The Bookseller; ‘Author O’Brien is a compulsive story teller’ Sunday Express

Piccadilly Press, April 2010 in paperback. This is the fifth of Rosie Rushton’s very successful Jane Austen series, and it is based on Persuasion, brilliantly updated to the twenty-first century

First published in 2000 by Bloomsbury, it has become a cult classic. It has been published in Holland, and in 2008 it was published in Japan with a new chapter, and also reissued in Germany and the US.

In December 2009, The Village Voice asked writers to name their favorite obscure book, and Joseph O’Neill, the bestselling author of Netherland, picked David Winner’s Brilliant Orange: “A wonderful cultural history of Dutch soccer. Total football; the Jews of Amsterdam; the neuroses of the national team; the shared spatial awareness of Dutch footballers and Dutch visual artists; the wisdom of Johnny Rep—these and other arcana are covered by this breezy classic of soccer writing.”

Piatkus 2008, paperback. By the author of the international bestseller Your Life in Your Hands. See the author’s website link.

‘This book tells it like it is … a must for sufferers and their families, and a wake-up call of interest to all working in this field’ Jennifer Littman MBE, Chair The Wishing Tree Trust

‘A brilliant new book … which will, I truly believe, set many people back on the path to equilibrium’ Bel Mooney, Daily Mail

‘An admirable book…. Many sufferers from stress, anxiety and depression will find invaluable information, guidance and comfort’ Lord Walton of Detchant, neurologist, former president of BMA and the Royal Society of Medicine

Severn House, March 2009, in hardcover. Elizabeth has a loyal and steady following; this is her sixteenth novel