The play adaptation of Lewis Dartnell’s apocalyptic survival guide, The Knowledge, premièred in Munich this weekend. Follow this link to see photos of the production, and this link for the website.
The J&N authors Lauren Elkin, Bradley Garrett and Olivia Laing have all appeared on panels at the Festival of the Future City in Bristol this week, reminding us that there’s a strong city-theme going on at our agency. Both Lauren and Olivia are publishing books about the city next spring (The Lonely City by Olivia Laing is published by Canongate in March 2016; Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin comes from Chatto & Windus in July 2016.) Lauren’s recent pieces about being caught up in the Friday 13th events in Paris can be found here and here.
Check-out this photo of crime writer, Elly Griffiths, dropping into Sundsvall Police Station to talk unsolved murders with Peter James, Arne Dahl and the Swedish Police Force! Elly is in Sundsvall to take part in the Swedish Crime Writing Festival, and to promote her most recent novels Smoke and Mirrors and The Outcast Dead.
Julie Kavanagh has won this years Giovanni Comisso Literary Prize for Biography for her account of the life and legend of Marie Duplessis, The Girl Who Loved Camelias. The other finalists were Mementos: The life of Wisława Szymborska,Anna Bikont and Joanna Szczesna (Adelphi) and The Courage of the Gray Days. Life of Giorgio Agosti Paul Borgna (Yale University Press).
Kat Banyard, author of The Equality Illusion has offered up an early look at what’s to come in her next book, Pimp State, in her essay on ‘The Human Rights Scandal’ published last week on the Faber and Faber website.
“Foyles and Hungerford Bookshop backed Robert Penn’s The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees (Particular Books) to fly off the shelves over the festive period”