Recent Publications and News

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

Transworld, January 2010 in hardcover.  Publication strongly supported by the trade with promotions by Waterstone’s, Amazon, and W.H. Travel.  

See Manda’s new website:
http://www.mcscott.co.uk.

This is the first of a series of books planned to feature Pantera, a Roman spy, in challenging situations in Nero’s Rome. ‘Scott’s writing is powerful and subtle, her characters have depth, the plot is impeccable and original’ The Times

Headline, February 2010 in hardcover and trade paperback, mass-market publication 24 June 2010, supported by TV and nationwide poster campaigns.  

Jill has also recently supported some of her many loyal publishers in translation by visiting Copenhagen and Amsterdam.  She is due to appear at the Hay-on-Wye festival in May.

Headline, February 2009 in hardcover and trade paperback. Mass-market paperback published 25 June and the bestselling author’s 20th title. Appeared in the top 10 Sunday Times’ bestseller list for 6 weeks, 4 of which were in the top 5.

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

Birlinn, May 2008 in trade paperback. An exploration of the scientific movement of reanimation which formed the basis of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. Andy is the author of seven non-fiction books, including the acclaimed Dynamo: Defending the Honour of Kiev, for which options have been sold in film, documentary television, and stage play.

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