Hello booksellers!
After the extraordinary events of last night and this morning, and bearing in
mind that Compass Points (like many of you no doubt!) has been up for half the
night; we will keep today’s newsletter an election free zone!
We love these literary lists don’t we – so who do
you think are the top ten pensioners in literature? If I say “All we have to
decide is what to do with the time that is given us” or even “Bah
humbug” that might give you a clue? Well, I’m pleased to tell you that our
own Compass Points favourite Allan Karlsson has also made the grade – he is of
course the star of the Hesperus title The
Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared!
Who doesn't love a wander round a ruin? Wild Ruins: The Explorer’s Guide to Britain’s Lost Castles,
Follies, Relics and Remains by Dave
Hamilton (pb, 978 1910636022 16.99) is published by Wild Things
Publishing in June, and explores Britain Britain ’s first guidebook to Britain
Make sure you capitalise on the colossal amount of
coverage that’s has been given this week to Pitch
Black: the Story of Black British Footballers by Emy Onuora of which the New Statesman has
said “Pitch Black is not merely a
valuable addition to the literature in this field, but vital … the author has
produced an account that is both fluent and illuminating.” Emy Onuroa has been on just about every TV, radio
station and newspaper talking about this book, including ITV Good Morning
Britain, BBC News, BBC Sports News, Radio 5 Live, The Guardian, the Mirror The Independent, Sky
Sports, The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Sun, Daily Mail , ITV News and the Daily Star plus tons of local coverage too.
Pitch Black is a frank, controversial and
often highly critical appraisal of the response to racism by football
authorities and the media. It is an important book on the history of black
footballers in the English game, their historic and existing struggles, and the
way both the game and society has changed; relating how profound changes in
attitudes have come about. Emy Onuora
charts not only the challenges faced historically by black footballers (the
poisonous stereotypes, the monkey chanting, the throwing of bananas, the bullets
in the post) but also examines their changing roles in the game, using
interviews with over thirty current and former professional footballers.
Pitch Black: the Story of Black British
Footballers by Emy Onuora (hb,
978 1849548144, 17.99) is published by Robson Press and is available
now.
Still on the subject of footie, you may be pleased – you may be cross – or you may
be totally indifferent to the fact that Chelsea Brazil
And if you’d like to see this somewhat controversial
star in action – watch six
minutes of Costa craziness here!
Well, I’ve promised to keep this an election free
zone, but there’s no two ways about it; there will be plenty of politicians (and
ex-politicians) who will be reaching for a nice big gin and tonic come this
evening. In fact north of the border they might well be reaching for the whisky
bottle instead – a good time to remind you that you booksellers have now sold
over 40,000 copies of 101 Whiskies to Try Before You
Die in the UK
And now seems to be the ideal moment to listen to
Snoop Dogg’s top ten hit, Gin and
Juice don’t you think?
Moving onto a rather different sort of music;
The Hollies are an English rock group
known for their pioneering and distinctive three part vocal harmony style who
became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s (231 weeks on the UK
singles charts during the 1960s; the 9th highest of any artist of the decade)
and into the mid 1970s. Coming from Red Planet is The Road is Long: The Story of the Hollies by
Brian Southall. Surprisingly this is the
first ever biography of one of the sixties and seventies biggest British bands –
who have a very strong fan base and still touring. Former band member and
superstar Graham Nash (who left the group in 1968 to form the supergroup Crosby,
Stills & Nash) has contributed to the book, and I think this could do rather
well. Just to remind you, the Hollies’ Sixties hits included: Just One
Look, Here I Go Again, Carrie Anne and of course He Ain’t
Heavy He’s My Brother. The 70’s hits included Long Cool Woman in a Black
Dress; and The Air That I Breathe and the band’s work is also
included on many TV advertised compilation albums. The Road is Long: The Story of the Hollies (pb,
978 1 9059 5976 1, £15.99) is published in June and you can order it here.
And here they are, singing one of their most iconic songs!
Tabloid Secrets: The Stories Behind the
Headlines at the World’s Most Famous Newspaper by Neville
Thurlbeck (hb, 978 1849548533 £14.99) is published this month by
Biteback, and there is going to be plenty of publicity for it. This
scandalous, swashbuckling insight into some of the biggest and most sensational
scoops on Fleet Street includes an analysis of the phone-hacking scandal and the
Leveson Inquiry. Neville Thurlbeck served
up some of the most famous, memorable and notorious headlines in the paper’s
existence; including names such as David Beckham, Jeffrey Archer, Fred and Rose
West, Gordon Brown and Robin Cook, among many others. In Tabloid Secrets, he reveals for the very first
time how he broke the award-winning stories which thrilled, excited and shocked
the nation, and secured the paper up to fifteen million readers every week. This
book is a real page turner and the publicity for it starts with an interview on
This Morning on Tuesday 12th May, an interview in the Observer on
18th May – and there will be lots more to come…
Which Compass author recently did a signing session
in London
Last Buzz Feed literary list of the day – how many
of these terrific book-to-film adaptations have you seen?
That’s all for now
folks, more next week!
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