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Authors S-Z
Ronald Searle
Ronald Searle, CBE, is the foremost graphic artist of his time, a master caricaturist, in the great tradition of geniuses such as Hogarth, Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshank, he is best known as the creator of the oik-ish schoolboy Nigel Molesworth, and the hellish girls of St Trinians, but also drew extraordinarily compassionate and humane images of his fellow POWs in a Japanese camp, created many successful advertising images, was published in the New Yorker, still draws for the International Herald Tribune. His admirers are legion, from Groucho Marx, to John Lennon and Matt Groenig.
He lives in France with his wife Monica, and works every day.
Kirsten Sellars
Kirsten Sellars has written for numerous national publications, including
the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Los Angeles Times, Australian,
New Statesman, Spectator, Esquire and Vogue.
Kirsten Sellars is a writer and journalist specialising in international affairs. Her first book, The Rise and Rise of Human Rights, was named as one of the 2002 books of the year in the New Statesman. Her next book, Hard Peace, is forthcoming.
‘It is the eradication of evil and cruelty in society that was the engine room of the human rights revolution, no better chronicled than in The Rise and Rise of Human Rights.’ – John Cooper, The Times
Gitta Sereny
One of the foremost investigative journalists and writers of her time, Gitta Sereny is the author of a number of landmark books, including Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder, Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth and Cries Unheard: The Story of Mary Bell. Her books have been translated into many languages and adapted for the screen.
Arguably the most important and certainly the most fascinating book on the Nazi era published in the last ten years Robert Harris Sunday Times
She lives in London and is working on a book about Vienna.
UK publisher: Penguin Press
US publisher: Knopf
James Shapiro
Professor James Shapiro, who teaches at Columbia University in New York, is the author of Rival Playwrights, Shakespeare and the Jews, and Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play. His latest book, 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare won the highest critical praise and was awarded the 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize. He is now working on 1606: The Year of Lear and Contested Will, an exploration of the Shakespeare authorship controversy.
One of the few genuinely original biographies of Shakespeare Jonathan
Bate, Sunday Telegraph
Shapiro's scrupulous scholarship has given us a Shakespeare both for his time and our own. David Scott Kastan, General Editor of The Arden Shakespeare
UK publisher: Faber and Faber
US publisher: Harcourt
In association with Anne Edelstein Literary
Agency US agent: Anne
Edelstein
Russell Shorto
Author of The Island at the Centre of the World and working on a new book called Descartes’ Bones.
A masterpiece of storytelling and first-rate intellectual history Wall Street Journal
Shorto's book deserves to be a bestseller: it is narratively irresistible, intellectually provocative, historically invaluable Simon Callow in The Guardian
UK publisher: Doubleday UK
US publisher: Doubleday US
In association with Anne Edelstein Literary
Agency US agent: Anne
Edelstein
Rachel Simon
Rachel Simon is the author of a novel, The Magic Touch, a collection of stories, Little Nightmares, Little Dreams, and an inspirational book for writers, The Writer's Survival Guide. Her latest book is Riding the Bus With my Sister. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College.
In association with Anne Edelstein Literary Agency US agent: Anne Edelstein
Katri Skala
Experienced arts administrator with organizations ranging from the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York to The New Writing Partnership in Norwich. Most recently, Katri was responsible for an international gathering of writers at the University of East Anglia and is deputy editor of the twice yearly literary journal ‘Pretext’ (UEA). She is working on her first novel.
Lee Smith
Lee Smith, a virtuoso of voice and vision, creates flesh-and-blood characters tempered with equal doses of comedy and tragedy. Like her popular and beloved novels Oral History and Fair and Tender Ladies, her latest novel, On Agate Hill is storytelling at its very best.
Lee Smith is the author of nine previous novels as well as three collections of stories. Her ninth novel, The Last Girls, was a New York Times bestseller as well as co-winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999, Smith lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
US publisher: Algonquin
In association with Darhansoff, Verrill
Feldman. US agent: Liz
Darhansoff.
Paul Southern
Author of two well received Manchester based novels, The Craze and Brown Boys in Chocolate, Paul has carved a compelling niche in modern noir, exploring the tensions and desires of the young urban inhabitants of south Manchester as they try to make sense of their world. Bound by centuries old traditions, Asian and English, his characters must negotiate dangerous territory and these books provide a fascinating and gritty counterpoint to the city’s glossy regeneration. Paul had a previous career as a rock star in indie band, Sexus and has a Phd thesis (on Tennyson’s plays). His explosive new novel, Fair Game will be published in 2007.
The Craze is what might happen if James Ellroy and Irvine Welsh took a stolen GTI for a spin on Stockport Road. The Bookseller
UK publisher: Century/Arrow
Simon Spurrier
Si is a star writer of comics and graphic novels, notably for Warhammer
and 2000AD, and has published 3 science fiction titles. He has
now written his first extraordinary crime novel, Contract,
the strange confession of a contract killer. Headline devised a unique
campaign to publicise the book, making the whole book available online
for free ahead of the paperback publication, which has been highly successful. Film
rights have been sold.
'If you're itching for an unflinching, inventive, well-researched stab at British crime fiction with a horrific twist, Contract will certainly satisfy.' SFX Magazine
His second novel, Lucid, will be published in 2009.
UK publisher: Headline
Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson is the author of The Baroque Trilogy (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System Of The World). His other books include Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Zodiac, as well as Cobweb and Interface, written in collaboration with Frederick George. Winner of the 2003 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Quicksilver, Stephenson was short listed for the same award in 2005 for The System Of The World. He lives in Seattle.
mixes history and fiction in the way that Don DeLillo did in Underworld. Stephenson's book is more successful than DeLillo's, and much funnier TLS (of Cryptonomicon)
Stephenson excels in marrying geekspeak with riotous action Guardian (of The
Confusion)
UK publisher: Heinemann
US publisher: Wm Morrow
In association with Darhansoff, Verrill Feldman. US
agent: Liz Darhansoff.
Kate Sterns
Canadian author of two critically praised and highly inventive novels, Thinking About Magritte and Down There By The Trains.
UK publisher: Bloomsbury
US publisher: Crown
Canadian publisher: Knopf
William Styron
William Styron was born in 1925 in Newport News, Virginia. He wrote his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, in 1925 which won the Prix de Rome of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for that year. This was followed by The Long March (1953) Set This House on Fire (1960), The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967 Pulitzer Prize), and the masterly Sophie's Choice (1979). In 1990 he published his hugely admired book about his battle with depression, Darkness Visible. This Quiet Dust, a collection of nonfiction pieces, was published in 1982. A Tidewater Morning is his most recent work. Styron has also received the National Book Award, the Howells Medal, and the Edward MacDowell Medal. William Styron died in November 2006. His work has been translated into languages all over the world.
Sophie's Choice is a passionate, courageous book...a philosophical novel on the most important subject of the twentieth century…One of the reasons Styron succeeds so well in Sophie's Choice is that, like Shakespeare (I think the comparison is not too grand), Styron knows how to cut away from the darkness of his material, so that when he turns to it again it strikes with increasing force....Sophie's Choice is a thriller of the highest order, all the more thrilling for the fact that the dark, gloomy secrets we are unearthing one by one--sorting through lies and terrible misunderstandings like a hand groping for a golden nugget in a rattlesnake's nest--may be authentic secrets of history and our own human nature. The New York Times Book Review
UK publisher: Cape/Vintage
US publisher: Random House
Abigail Thomas
Abigail Thomas is the author of a memoir, Safekeeping, as well as a novel and two collections of stories. Her New York Times bestseller, A Three Dog Life, is published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
In association with Darhansoff Verrill Feldman US agent: Chuck Verrill
Hank Wangford
Writer and singer songwriter, legendary country artist and genuine doctor (as Dr Sam Hutt), Hank has written many songs that have melted hearts and two books that have fired imaginations, The Hank Wangford Story: Vol lll, The Middle Years and The Lost Cowboys, an account of the cowboys of South America. He has also presented many radio and TV documentaries and written series of travel articles for The Guardian. We hope for another book from him in the near future.
Fiona Watson
Scottish historian, Dark Ages specialist and author of Under the Hammer: Edward l and Scotland and Scotland: A History (which was a Scottish bestseller), Fiona is now working on a groundbreaking book about the real Macbeth, Macbeth: A True Story, to be published in 2008 by Quercus. Fiona has also presented a 10-part history of Scotland in the BBC, and is working on a radio series on the Scottish Enlightenment.
UK Publisher: Quercus
Maryanne Wolf
Dr. Maryanne Wolf is the Director of the Center for
Reading and Language Research at Tufts University, where she is an Associate
Professor of Child Development. She is the editor of Dyslexia,
Fluency and the Brain and has also written instructional programs on thinking
skills for middle school students, on reading and writing for elementary
school students, and on linguistic awareness for emergent readers. Dr.
Wolf has published hundreds of articles on reading and learning disabilities.
Her first book, Proust and the Squid will be published by Icon Books
in 2008.
In association with Anne Edelstein Literary Agency US agent: Anne Edelstein
ESTATES:
- Alfred Bester
- James Jones
- Arthur Upfield
- Jack Beeching
- Brendan Behan
- Irwin Shaw
- Paul Hogarth
- Evelyn Underhill
- John Willett
- Geoffrey Willans