to Beatrice Colin and her primary agent, Simon Trewin, for her novel, THE LUMINOUS LIFE OF LILY APHRODITE, being chosen for The Richard and Judy Bookclub 2009
This glorious feat of storytelling about an orphan girl who emerges from the streets of wartorn Berlin to become the most glamorous star of the silent screen will be featured on the Richard and Judy tv show in March, and already the paperback edition is in the top ranks of Amazon and appeared on The Bookseller Heatseaker chart. Foreign rights sold last year to Neri Pozza/Italy, Querido/Netherlands, Oceanida/Greece, Alnari/Serbia, and hopefully more publishers and readers will now discover what a distinctively intelligent and captivating historical novel Beatrice Colin has written.
And congratulations to Adam Foulds and his primary agent Anna Webber for “The Broken Word” winning the 2008 Costa Poetry Award. Jonathan Cape published this stunning story-in-verse last spring and will publish Adam Foulds’ exquisite second novel, THE QUICKENING MAZE (jacket pictured left), in May 2009. Adam Foulds has also been named The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (for his first novel, THE TRUTH ABOUT THESE STRANGE TIMES), and was also recently shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and The Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2008.
