Who is excited about the new Adele album: 25? The first single
Hello from it has just been released – and the album itself is out on 20
November. It has been predicted record sales, perhaps even as high as 2 million.
The video for Hello also shattered the record for most views in 24 hours
when it was watched over 27 million times, and has since totted up 127 million
views. Previous record holder Taylor Swift received 20.1 million views for
Bad Blood on the first day of its release. If the predictions are to be
believed, Adele is also set to surpass
Swift in album sales too. Swift's 1989 was the last album to sell 1 million
copies in its first week. Whether or not you are personally an Adele fan, you might well want to think about
stocking the piano, vocal and guitar sheet music song book for 25 in your
bookshop. The sheet music for Adele’s previous albums has sold tens of thousands
of copies via music shops and online – so why not scoop up some of those sales
yourselves this time? There are thousands of singers, pianists and guitar
players out there desperate to emulate the throaty tones of this unstoppable
singing sensation and having the music is the vital first step! Adele 25: Piano, Vocal and Guitar Sheet Music (pb,
978 783057719, £15.99) can be ordered from Compass now – it’s published by the
Music Sales Group, which the larger organisation encompassing Omnibus
Press.
And here is that first single from the album, Hello
with its obligatory moody video!
Congratulations to David
Wethey whose excellent book Mote has just been shortlisted for the CMI Commuter Read Award. Mote: The Super Meeting (£12.99, hb, 978
1909273207) was published in June by Urbane and introduces organisations
to a workable, practical and effective system of running meetings. Even
conservative estimates say that we spend more than a quarter of our working
lives in meetings, and that over 50% of that meeting time is wasted. Yet
meetings appear central to the way process works in the vast majority of
organizations and no-one seems to want to tell the truth about them. Can you
embody leadership through meetings? Can you innovate effectively through
meetings? Is creativity evolved in meetings? Mote:
The Super Meeting is that better meeting and a life-changing way
forward. When you learn how to mote you open up the pathways to business
success. With Mote you can empower
people, inspire innovation, promote productivity, and mote your way to
your business goals. You can find more about the award (and read the first
chapter) here.
Halloween nearly done and dusted, firework night
ditto – and then it’s the countdown to you know what. Looking even further
ahead, once you’ve boxed up your boxing day returns for all those celeb biogs
that didn’t sell: the very next thing to fill your bookshelves with in the New
Year will be a slew of diet books. I very much like the sound of Accidentally Overweight by Dr Libby Weaver which is published in January by
Hay House. Libby explains how the 'calorie equation' (how much you eat
versus how much you move) is not the only determinant of our body shape
and size: as she says if it was truly as simple as that, surely everyone would
be trim, taut and terrific. Let's face it - for many people it is not a lack of
education that leads them to polish off a packet of chocolate biscuits after
dinner. Dr Weaver (a
nutritional biochemist) has found nine factors that cause us to either lose or
gain weight which include calories for sure, but also consist of stress
hormones, sex hormones, thyroid function and emotions. I think this book will
strike a chord with an awful lot of people – and there will be a big feature on
it in the Daily Telegraph on 4th January. It will also feature in the 5th
January issue of Bella magazine and there will be plenty of online
publicity too – such as HonestlyHealthy.com. You can order Accidentally Overweight: The 9 Elements That Will Help You
Solve Your Weight Loss Puzzle (pb, £10.99 978 1781806302) here
A reminder that the album of Kurt Cobain’s unreleased recordings, A Montage of Heck is released on November 13th.
This accompanies the book A Montage of Heck
(hb, £24.95, 978 1783059669) which is published by Omnibus Press.
Cobain is on the cover of this month’s Uncut magazine which includes an
interview with the director of the Montage of Heck documentary; Brett Morgen who is very complementary about our
book. “I think the book and the album and the movie all very much complement
each other. The interviews work better as a book than they do as the foundation
of a film.” The Kurt Cobain legacy
still continues to fascinate and inspire people and this riveting chronicle
paints an illuminating and honest portrait of the Nirvana frontman, capturing
the contradictions that made up his character. You can order A Montage
of Heck and find out more here.
Here’s a short
trailer for the Montage of
Heck film – which gives you a good feel for the remarkable and
sometimes shocking portrait of Kurt that the book
delivers.
Eerie thriller Silma
Hill (pb, £8.99, 978 1908754936) by Iain
Maloney was picked as an ideal Halloween read by BBC Radio 2
this week. This is a fast-paced historical thriller where a rural village is
ripped apart by accusations of witchcraft. It is described by reviewers as
“engagingly disturbing ... leaves the reader asking questions about the
nature of society and the role of religion and belief. The story is in many
respects timeless.” It is published by Freight and available
now.
And here's a great piece written today by Iain Maloney on exactly why Scottish writers are
so damn good at being scary!
We were sad to hear of the death of Philip French – the well-known Observer
film critic whose work was published by Carcanet. There will be special
supplement in the Observer this Sunday with many tributes including one
from Carcanet MD Michael Schmidt. For nearly half century French’s writing on cinema has been essential
reading for anyone who enjoys witty, intelligent engagement with the big screen.
Two titles currently available from Carcanet are: I Found It at the Movies (pb, £19.95, 978
1847771292) which collects the best of Philip
French’s film writing from 1964 to 2009 and is an illuminating and
entertaining companion to the world of the cinema.
Westerns (pb, £19.95, 978 1857547474) is the
classic account of the emergence, growth and flowering of one of the most
perennially popular film genres. When it was first published thirty years ago it
was welcomed by reviewers as a major work and this new edition, fully revised
and updated, with a new introduction, is a fascinating exploration of a genre
which remains highly influential and reflects many of the social and
psychological currents in American life. The piece in the Observer and
other obituaries will definitely focus readers’ attention on the superb quality
of Philip French’s sharp, clever and
amusing writing – so do make sure you have these two titles in
stock.
Thrilling historical tales of adventure always sell
well – so I’m pleased to introduce you to Anthony Knivet: gentleman, baker,
lover, linguist, explorer, and an indispensable advisor to the kings of several
Brazilian tribes. Roebuck: Tales of an Admirable
Adventurer by Luke Waterson is
a swashbuckling tale of the highest order, following Knivet’s escapades in
South America during the 1590s. It is inspired
by the true story of this explorer’s ill-fated circumnavigation of the globe and
his determination to carve a name for himself despite the bizarre, unsavoury and
sometimes just plain evil characters that stand in his way. Luke Waterson is a popular travel writer for
publishers such as Rough Guides and Lonely Planet as well as
many newspapers, and this is his debut novel. Roebuck (pb, 978 1910692035, £8.99) is published
in December by Urbane and
you can find out more and order it here.
Floyd Mayweather has dominated sports news around the world in 2015
declaring himself to be the greatest boxer there has ever been, eclipsing even
Muhammed Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson. There’s no denying that he is a world
champion at five weights, he has won all 48 bouts of his near 19-year
professional career and he has won 26 world-title fights. Money: The Life and Fast Times of Floyd
Mayweather Junior is the
first-ever biography of the planet’s wealthiest sports star – and one of the
world’s most controversial. He has never married, has four children by two
women, and is a habitual gambler, known to win and lose millions on a single
half of US
And if boxing isn’t your thing, and you’re not
entirely sure who Floyd Mayweather Junior
actually is – then here are eight minutes of his
greatest hits - literally!
It’s Halloween
tomorrow! We’re enjoying these #TenuousHalloweenTitles from Biteback and Robson
Press...
Project Fear by Joe Pike
Getting Out Alive by Roger
Mosey
Finding The Plot: 100 Graves To Visit
Before You Die by Ann Treneman
The Lost Journal of Bram
Stoker by Elizabeth Miller
& Dacre Stoker
Weirwolf: My Story by David
Weir
The Shark That Walks On
Land by Michael Bright
That’s all for now
folks! More next week!
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