Archive for April, 2012

We’re pleased to bring you two Headline authors in this Bulletin.

Steven Dunne

Location – Derby

Available for crime panel events / solo events / Strictly Come Bookselling

Contact: Samantha.Eades@headline.co.uk

About the author

Steven Dunne has written for fun since attending Kent University.  After a brief and terrifying stint as a standup comic, he became a freelance journalist writing for The Times and the Independent.  He is now a part-time teacher in Derby.  He is the author of the highly acclaimed thrillers THE REAPER and THE DISCIPLE.  His latest novel Deity is a British serial killer thriller of the highest order to rival the very best of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Peter Robinson.

Follow Steven on twitter @ReaperSteven or visit his website www.stevendunne.co.uk

Tanya Byrne

Location – Kingston

Available for teen panel events/teen days/Strictly Come Bookselling

Contact: Samantha.Eades@headline.co.uk

About the author

Tanya Byrne was born in London and studied in Surrey, where she still lives with her cat who goes by several names, none of which he actually answers to.  After eight years working for BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4, she left to write her debut novel.  She started the novel at a Writer’s Retreat in the South of France.  She has a weakness for boys with guitars, drinks far too much tea and even though her mother tells her not to, she always talks to strangers.  To find out more about Tanya, follow her on twitter @tanyabyrne or visit her blog http://tanyabyrne.tumblr.com/

Reminiscent of the film GIRL INTERRUPTED, HEART-SHAPED BRUISE tells the story of Emily Koll, the most notorious inmate of Archway Young Offenders Institution. Through her journals, Emily reveals piece-by-piece just how far she went to get revenge on the girl whose testimony sent her father to prison.

We have some fantastic commitment from the Independent Alliance for IBW this year, with four great IBW Collectibles from Alliance publishers, as well as author availability for IBW.

First the IBW Collectibles:

Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart – £9.99

Limited edition hardback for IBW, either signed by Chris Stewart or with a specially designed signed bookplate.

ISBN: 9781908745279

Order from: samb@faber.co.uk

Faber Poetry Diary –£12.99

Offered exclusively to Indie booksellers for two months.

ISBN: 9780571279401

Order from: samb@faber.co.uk

Apricot Jam by Alexander Solzhenitsyn – £8.99

Paperback offered exclusively to indie booksellers for three months.

ISBN: 9780857863195

Order from: samb@faber.co.uk

Just My Type by Simon Garfield – a limited deluxe edition featuring a signed hardback edition of the book and an exclusive edition screen print FONT poster.

ISBN: 9781781250747

Order from: samb@faber.co.uk

And now for the Alliance authors available for IBW this year and their locations.  For contact details, see the IBW Bookseller Bulletin sent on 25th April, or email meryl.halls@booksellers.org.uk :

Mark Forsyth	Icon
Clare Jacobs	Short
Helen Walsh	Canongate	NW England
Mari Strachan	Canongate	Wales
Tahmima Anam	Canongate
Scarlett Thomas	Canongate	SE England
Chris Mullin	Profile	NE England
Fiona Shaw	Profile	Yorkshire
Andrew Martin	Profile	London
Elizabeth Wilson	Profile	London

We are really delighted to bring you news of an IBW Collectible from Macmillan Children’s Books. IBW Collectibles is our small range of collectible items being made available only from independents for IBW.

What the Ladybird Heard book and plush box set by Julia Donaldson, Lydia Monks (ISBN 9781447207313) is available to independents at a special IBW RRP of £9.49.

For order details, contact meryl.halls@booksellers.org.uk in the first instance.

The latest IBW Bulletin to reach booksellers focusses on author availability from Palgrave Macmillan.  The following authors are available for bookshop visits during IBW.

In all cases, contact Claire.morrison@palgrave.com to make arrangements.

Barry Forshaw, author of Death in a Cold Climate and British Crime Films –  he’s based in North London (Islington); he is an expert in crime fiction

Clive Bloom, author of Riot City and Violent London – he is based in Essex, though Riot City is about last August’s riots

Sebastian Groes, author of Making of London – North London

Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson, authors of Going South and Economics editors of the Guardian and Mail on Sunday – London

Michael Moran, author of The Reckoning

Taylor Owen, author of Olympia – based in Oxford

We are really pleased to bring you news of The Bookshop Band, who are available for a limited number of dates and locations during IBW, but are also available throughout the year for bookshop appearances.

The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books, and began as a collaboration with Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights, in Bath, as part of their author events programme. What happens is this:

The Bookshop Band read the relevant author’s book in advance and write two songs based upon it, to be performed at the start of the evening.

• Their performances are inextricably linked to the books themselves, as the members of the band take it in turns to describe where the inspiration for each song came from.

After the first season the band recorded and released their first CD, Travels From Your Armchair. Despite only being available in the bookshop itself, word soon spread and they were picked up by radio DJ Tom Robinson who played them on his national Introducing show on BBC 6Music.  They have also appeared on Kirsty Lang’s culture show, BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, and on BBC 1 as part of a news feature on Britain’s independent bookshops. Over the course of the year, they have completed 18 author events, and written 36 songs inspired by 21 diverse books.

You can see them in action here www.vimeo.com/thebookshopband and find them on social media: www.twitter.com/thebookshopband and thebookshopband.bandcamp.com or www.thebookshopband.co.uk

The Bookshop Band already has a few IBW gigs lined up, so their availability is:

30th June  – Afternoon

Evening

(Ideally, en route between Nottingham and Glastonbury – overnight accommodation advice would help!)

3rd July – lunchtime or early afternoon – Oxfordshire

3^rd July – booked to play Jaffe & Neale, Chipping Norton

4^th July – booked to play Mr B’s, Bath

4th July – evening – Bath area

Bookshop Band events can be run as ticketed events – in which case a contribution towards the Band costs is appreciated – and in any case, the events are a great opportunity to sell the books the Band write the songs about.  The Bookshop Band also sell their own CD at the events.

To book The Bookshop Band – for IBW or for another occasion – contact Ben Please on 01225 422223 or 07789 348165 or email benplease@hotmail.com

Click here for a Bookshop Band Biog with a full list of books they have written songs about.

We’ve just received the cover image for Julian Barnes’ A Life With Books, our IBW Collectible.  Isn’t it beautiful?

Right, booksellers!  We need your help to create the shortlist for the IBW 2012 Book Award.  We have put together the longlist titles, submitted by publishers, into a survey – click here to access the survey – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9QZ3J6J

We now need all IBW booksellers to vote on these lists to create the shortlists – it’s really important that we have votes in from as many IBW booksellers as possible so that we have as wide a range of bookseller opinion as possible.  The lists are divided into Adult and Children’s.  Please rate each title with a score from 0 to 5, depending on how much you like it and think it should be on the two shortlists.

Many thanks.  We look forward to seeing the shortlists emerge as you start voting.  Please can you complete and return your votes by April 30th 2012.

If you have any questions at all, or need clarification, please contact meryl.halls@booksellers.org.uk or sharon.down@booksellers.org.uk

We are proud and delighted to announce the next of our IBW Collectibles Range, from the Random House Group.

Julian Barnes, one of Britain’s most distinguished novelists, is also an acclaimed essayist. A Life with Books is an essay specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, and it will be supplied exclusively to independent bookshops. In it, Julian Barnes writes about his early awareness of books and about his obsessive book-collecting and time spent in second-hand bookshops around the country. He ends by praising the physical book and expressing the confident hope that it will survive.

A Life with Books is published as a pamphlet, with cover art by Suzanne Dean, the renowned designer responsible for the cover of Julian Barnes’ Man Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending.

For full details of the offer, booksellers should email meryl.halls@booksellers.org.uk or sharon.down@booksellers.org.uk

To order copies, contact your local RHG sales representatives or Sue Bloomfield on 020 7840 8463 or SueBloomfield@randomhouse.co.uk

We hope you love this as much as we do.