Things are really hotting up for the release of Queen in 3-D by Brian May which is
published by the London Stereoscopic Company on 25 May. There is a fab
piece about the book on the Classic Rock website here.
Over on social media, fans are getting very excited about a teaser video
released by Brian May talking about the
title, which you can watch here.
The book is under a strict embargo until 21st May and the Sunday
Times Magazine have secured first serial rights and the first interview
with Brian on the book which they will publish it as a front cover story. This
will be bannered on the front of main paper and advertised on the radio. Mojo
magazine has been granted an exclusive interview with Brian to come out in the
issue to come out just after publication date and following this there is
likely to be massive syndication, press and media interest!
With excellent
timing (wow, it’s almost like he planned it!) Brian has just released a new
single with Kerry Ellis (from a new album Golden Days) entitled Roll
With Me which is getting massive airplay on the BBC – you can listen to
that here. At
the start of this year Queen announced a
tour and possible new album – see a teaser for that news here. All in all, there
is going to be a whole lotta Queen/Brian May publicity going on – so do make sure you have ordered
plenty of copies of Queen in 3-D (978 0957424685, £50, 323 x 245mm) which is published
as a slipcase containing the 256-page full colour deluxe hardback and the
easily assembled patent 3D viewer known as the OWL. For more information on
this mega book, go to the special website www.queenin3-d.com
As one Tweeter said recently, “If there are any writers
that make you put all other reading plans on hold, it’s César Aira. Another @andothertweets
triumph” and his two new novellas The Proof (pb, £7.99, 978 1908276964) and The Little Buddhist Monk (pb,
£7.99, 978 1908276988) both translated by Nick
Caistor have just been published by And
Other Stories to much acclaim. “César Aira is a master of the
supernatural…all his novellas have a challenging philosophical core — yet they
seem effortlessly produced and are fun to read” said Louis Amis in an
outstanding Spectator review which you can read here
.
There have been some fab displays recently for these and other
And Other Stories titles all around the country – see above and below for those in Foyles, Waterstone’s Guilford, Burley Fisher Books, the
Lutyens and Rubenstein Bookshop and Waterstones Norwich. Thanks
guys!
Fill in the missing word in this headline: “*** have
now became the latest warriors in the battle against the digital revolution.” Any
guesses? The answer is jigsaw puzzles – and so strong is their resurgence that
they have for the first time been included in the UK’s official shopping
basket, as researchers for the Consumer Price Index found that retailers are
freeing up more space on their shelves for the puzzles. At John Lewis, jigsaw
sales have risen by 16% this year, while the jigsaws and games category at the
National Gallery gift shop is 49% up. Vinyl, premium stationery and (hurrah!)
physical books are the most significant examples of this rediscovered taste for
the tangible, but jigsaw puzzles are very much riding on the crest of the same
wave; you can read more about this story in the Telegraph here.
So, this is a good time to remind you of the bestselling puzzles from Peony
Press and Galileo – and urge you to order them! From Peony,
(which is an imprint of Anness) the top three sellers are three
high-quality 1,000-piece puzzles, all priced at £12.99 which feature The Laughing Cavalier (978 0754825272,) The Flying Scotsman (978
0754833536) and A Stop at the Fox Inn (978
0754833529). From Galileo, the top sellers are puzzles showing scenes
from The Lord of the Rings (700 461754725, £14.99) and a compilation collage
entitled Beautiful Britain (702 811645912, £10.99). The
Lord of the Rings puzzle is
illustrated by John Howe who is widely recognised as the premier artist
interpreting JRR Tolkien’s masterpiece He
has painted book covers, calendars, board games, posters and was the art
advisor on all Peter Jackson’s highly successful movies. In Beautiful Britain, all the scenes in the picture
are painted from actual locations and the place names of the parts of Britain
that have been illustrated are on the back of the box.
How long would it take to do these jigsaws do you think?
An afternoon or two maybe? How about tackling one that takes an astonishing
NINE MONTHS?! Luckily it only takes two and a half minutes to watch it – have a
look at this
33,600-piece epic endeavour!
Who are the best parents in the world? And what are their
secrets? From morning sickness to tricky teenagers, fussy eaters to iPad
addicts, the core challenges facing parents are the same all over the world –
but how each country deals with them is astonishingly different. In Planet Parent: The World’s Best Ways to Bring up your
Children (pb, £10.99, 978 1908281807) Mark
Woods looks in every corner of the
globe to find the very best parenting tips and techniques. He gets the lowdown
on potty training success in China, learns why French kids eat vegetables
rather than throw them and discovers how much screen time Apple boss Steve Jobs
allowed his children. The result is a funny, fascinating book which will be an
invaluable source of wisdom and advice for parents everywhere. Mark Woods meets
tiger mothers, stay-at-home dads, hover parents and boomerang babies, pulling
together the very best parenting advice in the world. Emma Freud said “My
children would like to point out that they would have been grateful if I had
read this book twenty years ago” while Kirstie Allsopp described it as “funny
as it is fascinating; a must-read for the planet's parents.” Planet Parent is
published by White Ladder
And talking of fascinating facts from all around the
world; this is
fun – the world’s statistics as if it had a population of just 100 people.
Everybody wants a better life, yet many of us are focused
on external resources instead of relying on ourselves to know the way. In her
new title, Now Is Your Chance (978 1781808047 £10.99). author Niyc Pidgeon shares
her own life experience of being raped, bullied, and feeling like she had no
voice, to healing from the inside out, and emerging empowered as a
heart-centred and spirit-led female entrepreneur, who is successful, thriving,
and helping other women live that too. Each chapter includes real life lessons
from the author's own experience, practical tips, a Positive Psychology tool or
a spirit-led mantra, stories from real clients, colleagues, and friends, and
the latest happiness research, presented in an easily digestible way. Niyc has
an exclusive interview with May’s Marie Claire magazine and the book
will also be featured in July’s Yoga Magazine. Reviews of Now Is Your Chance will
also appear in a current issue of Your Fitness and Soul & Spirit.
It is published this month by Hay House.
Two Carcanet poets – Chris Beckett and Karen McCarthy Woolf (Karen’s new book is out in June) – are involved in a
project on Radio 4 next week called The Odyssey Project: My Name is Nobody.
It’s a modern retelling of Homer’s
Odyssey over several episodes and you can listen to Chris’s episode, Tamrat in the Cyclops Cave and Karen’s Night Shift on the BBC website here. Both poets perform in the episodes as well.
We love a quiz –
and we love an anagram! So, can you solve these
anagrams of ten classic book titles?
Before Pep Guardiola and before José Mourinho, there was Béla Guttmann: the first superstar football coach,
and the man who paved the way for the celebrated coaches of the modern age.
More extraordinarily still, Guttmann was a Holocaust survivor. Having narrowly
dodged death by hiding for months in an attic near Budapest as thousands of
fellow Jews in the neighbourhood were dragged off to be murdered, Guttmann later
escaped from a slave labour camp. But by 1961, as coach of Benfica, he had
lifted one of football's greatest prizes: the European Cup, a feat he repeated
the following year. Rising from the death pits of Europe to become its champion
in just over sixteen years, Guttmann performed the single greatest comeback in
football history. The Greatest Comeback: From
Genocide to Football Glory: The Story of Béla Guttmann (£20, hb, 978
1785901393) by David Bolchover was described by Daniel Finkelstein in the Times as: “Moving,
original, full of insight, this is a gripping tale told by a skilled
storyteller. You don’t need to be interested in the Holocaust to find this
fascinating account of some great footballing moments absorbing. And you don’t
need to be interested in football to want to learn about this tale of survival.
But if you are by chance interested in both, you will find this book
extraordinary.” The Mail on Sunday called it “A fascinating,
brilliantly told biography … a moving, terrifying and inspirational story of
survival and triumph.” There will be a serialisation of this title in The Guardian
and reviews in the Sunday Times, the Economist, When Saturday
Comes, the Times and the Mail on Sunday, plus interviews with
Bolchover on Talk Sport and Five
Live. The Greatest Comeback is
published in May by Biteback.
Staying with a sporting theme, The
Kings of Summer: How Cricket's 2016 County Championship Came Down to the Last
Match of the Season by Duncan Hamilton (hb, £9.99, 978 0993291128) has just been published
by Safe Haven and there was a brilliant review for this excellent book
last week in the Telegraph calling it “a fine piece of cricket
writing, and a fitting tribute to a match that was everything a connoisseur of
our wonderful game could want.” You can read that piece by Simon Heffer in
full here.
The book describes in thrilling detail how, last autumn, the 2016
County Championship all came down to the final afternoon of the very last
match. The two sides, Middlesex and Yorkshire, went into the game first and
second in the table. If neither managed to force a win, it would leave the
County Championship title to third-placed Somerset. Late September was blessed
with beautiful Indian-summer weather; the biggest crowd for a county match at
Lord's for some 40 years turned up to watch, and four days of battling,
nail-biting cricket, the balance swinging either way, culminated in an
unbelievably tense run chase by Yorkshire. As the autumn shadows lengthened, an
unforgettably gladiatorial contest was finished by the Middlesex fast bowler
Toby Roland-Jones in the most memorable way of all: a hat-trick. The
award-winning sports writer Duncan Hamilton,
who was at Lord's to watch every ball, re-lives this extraordinary, epic match,
the finest advert for one of the most demanding competitions in any sport. You
can read another a great piece about this book in the Yorkshire Post; here.
To finish, and looking forward to the publication of Queen in 3D next
month; let’s have the top ten Queen songs
of all time! Which one is
your favourite?!
That’s all for now folks! More next
week!
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