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Authors M-R
Andrew G Marshall
Andrew G. Marshall is a marital therapist with twenty years’ experience. He works for RELATE the UK’s leading couple-counselling charity, and writes on relationships for The Times (in particular the 'Psychobabble' column), Observer and Sunday Express. For theIndependent he wrote the celebrity profile 'Revelations'and for Woman and Home magazine he interviewed celebrity couples 'Inside a Marriage'.
Andrew is also a playwright. Coming Around Again, a playabout five generations of the same family and how one generation’s secret’s effects the next was performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2005 and published by Oberon Books.
I Love You But I’m Not In Love With You will explain how to keep long term relationships fresh and interesting, and it is being translated into many languages. He is working on a new book, Terminally Single, for those millions of people who think they will never find the right person.
UK publisher: Bloomsbury
US publisher: HCI Books
Jean Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow
Authors of the bestselling 60 Million Frenchmen Can’t be Wrong and The Story of French.
UK publisher: Robson Books
US publisher: St Martins
In association with New England Publishing Associates US agent: Ed Knappmann
Karen O’Brien
Author of a number of highly regarded books on women in music, such as Hymn to Her, Joni Mitchell: Shadow and Light and was the first biographer of the late Kirsty Maccoll, The One and Only.
UK publisher: Andre Deutsch
Joseph Olshan
Joseph Olshan is an award-winning American novelist. His first novel, Clara's Heart, won the Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writers' Competition and went on to be made into a feature film starring Whoopi Goldberg. He is the author of eight novels, including the internationally acclaimed Nightswimmer. His new book, The Conversion, will be published by Arcadia Books in 2009.
Praise for Clara’s Heart
It’s terrific. Joseph Olshan is clearly enormously talented.
He has an almost extra-sensory understanding of the characters he writes
about, and he writes magnificently well. He is funny, too. The
Daily Telegraph
Extraordinarily mature….Here is a writer in total command of his narrative. Ian McEwan
Praise for Nightswimmer
Beautiful, bittersweet….This fervent story of love and loss,
of the perils and pleasures of intimacy, is depicted with a sure, light
touch and with universal resonance and appeal. New
York Times Book Review
David Park
David Park has written five novels The Healing, The
Rye Man,Stone Kingdoms, The Big Snow and Swallowing
the Sun (shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes/Sunday
IndependentNovel of the Year Award.). He
has also written one volume of short stories Oranges from
Spain. He works as a schoolteacher in County Downs, Northern
Ireland where he lives with his wife and two children. His new novel, The
Truth Commissioner is published by Bloomsbury, has many
foreign publishers.
‘Park is an excellent writer: psychologically astute, lyrically
unflinching ... beautifully conveyed’ Daily
Telegraph
UK publisher: Bloomsbury
US publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Annie Proulx
The multi-award winning (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Irish
Times International Fiction Prize, and many others) and bestselling author
of The Shipping News, Postcards and Close Range,
Annie Proulx has had her work translated into many languages and her
story Brokeback Mountain (from Close Range)
has been made into an award winning film by Ang Lee. She lives
in Wyoming where she is working on a novel and a first work of non-fiction.
BOOKS:
Heart Songs and Other Stories, The Shipping News, Postcards,
Accordion Crimes, Close Range; Wyoming Stories, That Old Ace in the Hole,
Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2. A new collection
of stories, Fine Just The Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 will
be published in 2008.
In association with Darhansoff, Verrill Feldman. US agent: Liz
Darhansoff.
www.annieproulx.com
Malcolm Pryce
Creator of the Louie Knight stories, Aberystwyth Mon Amour, Last Tango in Aberystwyth, The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth and the forthcoming Don’t Cry For Me, Aberystwyth, Malcolm Pryce has also been a BMW assembly-line worker, hotel washer-up and aluminium salesman. He lives in Bangkok, in splendour.
‘Marvellously imaginative … You’ll weep and laugh,
on the same page. Wonderful’ Guardian
‘Exuberant comic fantasy’ Sunday
Times
UK publisher: Bloomsbury
Kate Pullinger
Kate Pullinger was born in British Columbia and moved to England where
she has worked as a lecturer and writer in residence at a variety of
institutions including Battersea Arts Centre, and HMP Gartree and Maidstone.
She is the author of several novels including When
the Monster Dies,
The Last Time I Saw Jane and Weird
Sister and most recently, A Little
Stranger. She has also published two collections of short stories, Tiny
Lies and My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison.
Kate is one of the first literary writers to work in the digital field and her
current digital fiction projects include her collaboration with Chris Joseph
(babel) on 'Inanimate
Alice', a multimedia episodic digital
fiction - and 'Venus Redemption', a game for female casual gamers
. ‘Inanimate Alice’ has won a number of awards, including the Premio
per l'arte digitale, Rome, Italy (2/2006) and the IBM New Media Prize, 20th Stuttgarter
Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany (5/2007).
Kate Pullinger is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University.
'Pullinger treats with thoughtful sympathy that profound taboo, the breaking of the mother-baby bond' Guardian
UK publisher: Serpent’s Tail
Canada: Mcarthur and Co
www.katepullinger.com
Sophie Radice
Journalist and writer, Sophie is working on a novel.
Ruth Richardson
Author of Death, Dissecion and the Destitute, Ruth Richardson is a medical historian, writer and editor.
This is a heartfelt dilemma whose history is movingly explored...Passionate,
powerful and elegant Roy Porter in the Guardian
Dr Richardson now works for the Institute of Historical Research, London,
and edited Vintage Papers from The Lancet.
UK publisher: Pheonix
Molly Rogers
Is working on a book called Delia’s Tears about some extraordinary daguerrotypes found in an American museum.
US and UK publisher: Yale