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weekly round up of publishing news, publicity information
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This week at
Compass we are enjoying reading Watermelons – a highly entertaining and very
provocative new title by James Delingpole
which is published in October. James Delingpole is
the bestselling British author and blogger who helped expose the Climategate
scandal back in 2009. At its very roots, argues Delingpole, climate change is an
ideological battle, not a scientific one. In other words, it's green on the
outside and red on the inside. At the end of the day, according to Delingpole,
these "watermelons" of the modern environmental movement do not want to save the
world. They want to rule it.
“I
haven’t tasted chocolate for ten years and now I’m walking down the street
unwrapping a Kit-Kat. It tastes amazing. Remember when Kate Moss said ‘Nothing
tastes as good as skinny feels’? She’s wrong: chocolate does. When I think of
the wasted tears, the evenings spent alone, the friends lost, all those shared
meals I’ve avoided... it strikes me as incredibly sad. I’ll never get those
years back.”
At the age
of 32, Emma Woolf decided to face the
biggest challenge of her life: to let go of her addiction to hunger, exercise
and control, and finally beat anorexia. An Apple a
Day is a compelling and life-affirming true story of love and
recovery – just published and getting a lot of very positive press coverage. The
issue of body image is never far away in the media – and now Emma (who is the
great niece of Virginia Woolf incidentally!) is just about to start writing a
weekly weekend column for The Sun – which will heighten her profile still
further.
Fifty Shades
of Grey? More like Fifty Shades of Horrendously Badly Written – come on, let’s
make sure the bookselling public have plenty of opportunity to read the original
and best. Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a
Woman of Pleasure by John
Cleland was first published in England in 1748 and is generally
considered the first original English pornographic novel. One of the most
prosecuted and banned books in history; it is republished by Arcturus
Classics in August – and with a terrific retail price of £3.99 it’s a no-brainer
to add to every bookshop’s mummy porn – sorry erotic fiction –
display.
Publicity is
building for The Hundred Year Old Man
who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared - the international
publishing sensation which has sold over two million copies across the globe and
is published in the UK by Hesperus this month. Waterstones have just announced
that they have chosen it as one of their next twelve Book Club reads.
Real books
or eBooks? The debate rages on. Why not watch this cute film to
help you make up your mind!
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That’s
all for now folks, more next week!
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ReplyDeleteGood idea too about Fanny Hill, think we should do a window featuring 'mummy porn'.