There’s plenty of magazine coverage
coming up for the fabulous My Bangladesh Kitchen: Recipes and Food Memories from a Family
Table (£20, hb, 978 0754834502) by Saira Hamilton.
There will be features in Olive, Food and
Travel, IndyEats, Vegan Living and Living
North and most excitingly, the book is being extracted in the Times Weekend on Saturday 2nd Feb. Saira
is available for bookshop events – her infectious enthusiasm for getting big
flavours into your home cooking really sells the book! She was on the Three Counties Radio a couple of weeks
ago and her event at the Bishops
Stortford Literary Festival late Feb is now totally sold out. She's doing a
cookery day at Baythorne Hall, Halstead, Essex, and is appearing at the
Chipping Norton ChipList Festival in
April. If any bookshops would like to host an event please email Joanna at Lorenz
on jlorenz@anness.com
Lots of publicity coming up for Executive
Presentations: Develop Presence to Speak with Confidence and Skill (978 1788600163, £15.99, pb) by Jacqui Harper which is just out from Practical Inspiration and is shortlisted
for the 2019
Business Book Awards. Jacqui is an international expert in
leadership presence and personal branding, and a former BBC News anchor. This
book equips executives to give compelling and clear presentations and Jacqui’s
rich blend of tools, tips and expert advice will help anyone become a
consistently outstanding communicator. There are reviews in HR magazine, The CEO magazine, Financial
Management, and #Biz Rocks. Here's a great little video from Jacqui
answering three key questions in five minutes: 1) How do I handle nerves? 2) What
can you do to increase impact? and 3) What’s the best way to begin a
presentation?
We love a bookshop blackboard telling
us all about the cool events coming up! But have a look here
for
some handwritten signage that has gone seriously wrong – I’m sure no booksellers
would make such a hash – but these really made me chuckle!
Flying from an aircraft carrier in the
Second World War was the most dangerous of pursuits. Even without the threat of
enemy action, the likelihood of being killed or maimed was great and when faced
with a determined foe, the chances of survival diminished even more quickly. It
wasn’t a life for the faint-hearted or the unskilled; naval aviators were the
best of the best. Tim Hillier-Graves is
a retired Royal Navy officer and his new book Heaven High, Ocean Deep (£19.99, hb,
978 1612007557) will be published by Casemate
on 14 February. A fascinating
article
about the book has just appeared on Dan
Snow’s History Hit, which has been extremely popular, and much shared.
When three women
set off on a hike through the wilderness, they are anticipating the adventure
of a lifetime. Over the next five days, as they face up to the challenging
terrain, it soon becomes clear they are not alone… The Geography of Friendship (£8.99, pb, 978-1789550184) which is out on 1
February from Legend has been a huge
hit in Australia and I think is set to do the same here. It was a Women’s Weekly Book Cub Great Read who
said “There’s a little bit of Big Little
Lies about this deft and powerful study of female friendships under pressure…
this lyrical author has a style and tone all of her own which sucks you in and
holds you in its seductive embrace, almost unable to breathe… a page-turner… a
book dripping in the raw beauty of the Australian landscape.” Sally Piper is about to embark on a month-long blog tour with 22
bloggers, and you can see all the details above. There will also be a review in WI Life
(220k subscribers), a piece in the March issue of Writers
Forum, and a lot of promo on social media.
Great to see Sudanese author Rania Mamoun's
debut collection Thirteen Months of Sunrise (translated by. Lissie Jaquette, £9.99, pb, 978 1910974391)
included in The Mancunions round-up
of the Most
Anticipated Books of 2019 which
you can read here.
This
is the first major translated collection from Arabic by a Sudanese woman writer
and expertly blends the real and imagined to create an intimate portrait of
life in Sudan today. From brief encounters to unusual friendships, this
startling and evocative debut illuminates human experience and explores the
alienation, isolation and estrangement of urban life.
I think most of us were highly amused
by this
story
about the ancient stone circle that wasn’t actually old at all! A “recumbent
stone circle” in the parish of Leochel-Cushnie, Aberdeenshire, had been
celebrated by Historic Environment
Scotland as an authentic discovery until the former owner of the land told
them he’d actually built it himself in the mid-1990s! Never mind Historic Environment Scotland, we know
you can’t get it right all of the time – and it gives me a chance to re-promote
your lovely title Scotland from the Sky (£25,
hb, 978 1849172523). This beautiful book draws on the vast collection of aerial
photography held in their archives of and tells a remarkable story of a nation
from above, taking readers back in time to show how our cities and landscapes
have dramatically altered with the ebb and flow of history, and how aerial
imagery can reveal (genuine!) treasures from the ancient past. It’s coming in
paperback (£14.99, 978 1849177375) in August.
The promotion for Cool Places: Britain's Coolest Places to Stay,
Eat, Drink... and More (978
1906889692, hb, £18.99) is about to begin in earnest – it’s due to be featured
in the Times on Feb 2 and the Observer on Feb 10. This lavish
full-colour guide to more than 200 of the very best places to stay in the UK is
based on recommendations from the Cool Places website and has everything from boutique hotels
and designer B&Bs to chic country cottages and luxury glampsites. Compiled
by Cool Places and Rough Guides founder Martin Dunford and UK travel specialist Jules Brown, each featured place has
an incisive first-hand review and all the information you need, uniquely
including all the best stuff to do nearby: local pubs, great walks, fun
activities, and features on the local entrepreneurs who run their own ‘cool
places’ with such passion.
A novel banned by the Nazis in the
1930s for its homoerotic content is to appear in English for the first time
next month. At
the Edge of the Night (£9.99, pb, 978
1843916543) by Friedo
Lampe, was first published in 1933. Poignant and haunting, it is
seen today as an early work of magical realism but was seized by the Nazis who
objected to the novel’s inclusion of homoerotic content, and its depiction of
an interracial liaison between a black man and a German woman. The book was
placed on their list of “damaging and undesirable writings”. You can read more
about this in the Guardian here
.
Lampe has enjoyed a growing reputation in Germany, and the novel drew praise
from Hermann Hesse, who said that “what
struck us at the time as so beautiful and powerful has not paled, it has
withstood; it proves itself with the best, and captivates and delights just as
then”. Publisher Hesperus said the novel embodied its ambition to recover
overlooked gems, and its translator Simon Beattie commented “He’s a very interesting author: a disabled, gay writer during the
Third Reich who somehow survived, only to be shot by a Red Army patrol days
before the end of the war.”
There’s a super interview with De Coubertin publisher Megan Pollard in Strong
Words –
a new print and online magazine all about books – which is doing very well and
is now on sale in WH Smith, so this is great publicity for one of our favourite
sports publishers! Megan talks about lots of interesting things: “we try and do books that other people
wouldn’t give a chance to.” “Everyone knows the bog-standard autobiography …
but it is all those little extra things that you probably didn’t know about
them or that you haven’t experienced yourself that adds that bit extra to an
autobiography.” “Sometimes though, people who aren’t liked also potentially
make a good book, because people like to read about people they don’t like. I
know it’s not sport, but just look at Donald Trump. Everything written about
him is devoured because people are so interested in why no one likes him.” “The
ones that interest me the most are not the usual, stereotypical stories.” If
you have a copy of Strong Words magazine in your bookshop then do have a read,
it’s really interesting and there’s lots of great promo for De Coubertin’s top titles!
A big Pierre Bonnard exhibition The
Colour of Memory opened at the Tate in London this week, which has
attracted lots of publicity and is going to be massively popular – it is the
first major exhibition of Bonnard’s work in the UK since the much-loved show at
Tate 20 years ago and runs until 6 May. With perfect timing, Carcanet have just relaunched Gabriel Josipovici’s
Contre-Jour: A Triptych
After Pierre Bonnard (pb, £12.99, 978
1857544107) with a new cover. This acclaimed novel based on the life of the
French painter is told in three parts from the perspectives of Bonnard’s wife,
daughter, and the painter himself. It was reviewed this week in the Jewish Chronicle who said “Short, devastating…a brilliant study of the
artist’s life. Contre-Jour is Josipovici at his very best and the timing of this
reissue is perfect. It offers the chancre to read this astonishing account of
art and obsession along with going to the exhibition at the Tate Modern.”
And if you’d like to spend a highly relaxing five minutes spent gazing of some of Bonnard’s most gorgeous work – then you can do that here!
And if you’d like to spend a highly relaxing five minutes spent gazing of some of Bonnard’s most gorgeous work – then you can do that here!
That’s all for now folks! More next week!
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