2012 archive
LEON founders to review school dinners!
Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent, the co-founders of the LEON restaurant chain, have been asked to examine the UK school meals service by Education Secretary Michael Gove. Henry and John have been asked to present the Department of Education with a series of recommendations to improve the nutritional standards of school food in a report next...» Read more...
Hugh and the River Cottage gang return to Channel 4!
Hugh and River Cottage are back with a brand new show, ‘River Cottage: Three Go Mad’, on Channel 4, Wednesdays at 8pm. Hugh was joined by actors Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes, stars of the ‘80s-inspired cop show ‘Ashes to Ashes’, and Felicity Kendal, the original smallholders’ poster girl, at...» Read more...
US rights in Andrea Gillies' THE WHITE LIE sold to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
We’re pleased to announce that US rights in The White Lie by Andrea Gillies (prize-winning author of KEEPER) have been sold to Jenna Johnson at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, with US agent Denise Shannon handling the deal for Andrea’s agent Judith Murray. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish in Spring 2014. For more information...» Read more...
Angelina Ballerina: The Mousical, returning to the UK!
Angelina Ballerina: The Mousical is back in the UK this summer, with performances kicking off in the Nottingham Playhouse on Thursday, July 5. Based on the stories written by Katherine Holabird and illustrated by Helen Craig, the musical tells the story of Camembert Academy’s opportunity to appear in Angelina’s favourite...» Read more...
Congratulations to Kalinda Ashton, winner of one of this year's Betty Trask Awards!
Congratulations to Kalinda Ashton , winner of one of the £3,000 Betty Trask Awards at this year’s Authors’ Awards for THE DANGER GAME – published in paperback by Tindal Street Press. The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for debut novels, of a traditional or romantic style, written by authors under the age of...» Read more...
Will Wiles selected as one of The Telegraph's Amazing 15 - their list of the best of British talent
For the first time ever, the Telegraph has handpicked 15 people who represent Britain's most exciting talent today. The chosen 15 range from sports presenters to cake artists, eco innovators to jewellery designers – and Will Wiles is the only author to have made it on to the list. To vote for him under the Arts & Culture category –...» Read more...
Congratulations to Andrew Webb and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - winners at the Guild of Food Writers Awards 2012!
There was a hat-trick of prizes among Greene & Heaton clients at this year’s awards: Andrew Webb’s FOOD BRITANNIA (Random House) won the Food Book of the Year Award. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and KEO films took home two awards last night – the Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning and Investigative Food Writing and Broadcasting...» Read more...
Trilby Kent's STONES FOR MY FATHER wins Children's Africana Book Award!
Congratulations to Trilby Kent whose novel STONES FOR MY FATHER has been given the Best Book award in the 2012 Children’s Africana Book Awards. The award is presented annually to the author and/or illustrator of the best children’s books on Africa published in the U.S. Established in 1991, the awards aim to encourage the publication of...» Read more...
Congratulations to Karen Russell as SWAMPLANDIA! wins a New York Public Library Award!
Karen Russell’s SWAMPLANDIA! (Chatto & Windus) won the New York Public Library’s 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award at a ceremony on Monday May 14th. A panel of judges that included Adam Levin, A. M. Holmes and Àlvaro Enrigue selected SWAMPLANDIA! as the winner, of the $10,000 prize. Other shortlisted titles included...» Read more...
Sarah Waters' TIPPING THE VELVET to be re-issued by Virago Modern Classics in their new 'Coming of Age' collection
Virago’s 'Coming of Age' collection this August will see TIPPING THE VELVET reissued alongside four other novels: Emma Donoghue’s SLAMMERKIN, Rosamond Lehmann’s 1930s novel INVITATION TO THE WALTZ, Miles Franklin’s turn-of-the-century book MY BRILLIANT CAREER and Rumer Godden’s THE RIVER. Maya Angelou’s memoir...» Read more...
Marcus du Sautoy competing in BBC Two's series 'Maestro At The Opera' - starting May 4th
The return of the hugely successful series 'Maestro At The Opera' is a creative collaboration between the BBC and the Royal Opera House and will see Marcus and three other well-known personalities facing possibly the greatest challenge in classical music as they pick up the baton and become apprentice conductors. The other trainee conductors,...» Read more...
Congratulations to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Dan Lepard and Andrew Webb - all shortlisted for the Guild of Food Writers Awards 2012!
Three Greene & Heaton clients have been nominated in four categories in this year’s Guild of Food Writers Awards! Dan Lepard’s SHORT AND SWEET (Fourth Estate) has received a nomination for Cookery Book of the Year; Andrew Webb’s FOOD BRITANNIA (Random House) has been shortlisted for the Food Book of the...» Read more...
Anna May Mangan's memoir ME AND MINE tops the Irish bestseller list!
Anna May Mangan's memoir ME AND MINE hit the number one spot in Ireland in March and has been riding high in the Irish bestseller list for over 16 weeks now.» Read more...
Karen Russell's SWAMPLANDIA! announced as one of the three Pulitzer Finalists for fiction!
Our congratulations to Karen Russell whose SWAMPLANDIA! was named a 2012 Pulitzer Price Finalist for Fiction. The Pulitzer committee declined to name a winner from among the finalists, who also included Denis Johnson for TRAIN DREAMS and the late DAVID FOSTER WALLACE for his book THE PALE KING . Described by The Times as "a wonderfully...» Read more...
Sarah Waters to be given the Freedom of the City of London
Author Sarah Waters is to be presented with the Freedom of the City of London in a ceremony on Monday 26th March. The event is to take place at Guildhall, London and will be presided over by the Chamberlain of London, with the pre-ceremony Q&A chaired by Erica Wagner, Literary Editor of the Times, who will cover the event in her column. The...» Read more...
Congratulations to Andrea Gillies, Cullen Murphy, Madeleine Tobert, Will Wiles and Benjamin Wood!
Today is the day for publishing celebrations aplenty! Congratulations to Andrea Gillies for THE WHITE LIE (Short Books), Cullen Murphy for GOD’S JURY (Allen Lane), Madeleine Tobert for THE SEA ON OUR SKIN (Two Roads, Hodder), Will Wiles for CARE OF WOODEN FLOORS (Fourth Estate) and Benjamin Wood for THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS (Simon and...» Read more...
Congratulations to Dan Lepard who has been shortlisted for an Andre Simon Food and Drink Award!
Dan Lepard’s SHORT AND SWEET (Fourth Estate, £25) has been shortlisted for a prestigious Andre Simon Food & Drink Book Award. Dan Lepard’s innovative and earthy approach has made him the baker that every top chef wants in their kitchen, and with this utterly dependable how-to-bake book you’ll be baking cakes, pastries,...» Read more...
Congratulations to River Cottage and Wahaca restaurants! Both have won awards from the Sustainable Restaurant Association!
Huge congratulations go to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage canteens and the RC events centre, and to Thomasina Miers’ Wahaca restaurants! The SRA awarded River Cottage the Award for Sourcing and Wahaca the Sustainable Restaurant Group of the Year. The awards, in this their first year, aim to celebrate the best in...» Read more...
HIS LAST DUCHESS Hits Number One in US Kindle Store Chart!
The US edition of HIS LAST DUCHESS by Gabrielle Kimm, published by Sourcebooks, reached number one in the Amazon.com Kindle Store chart on Thursday 12th January, ahead of big names including Suzanne Collins, Kathryn Stockett, Stieg Larsson and John Grisham. HIS LAST DUCHESS: When sixteen-year-old Lucrezia de' Medici marries the fifth Duke...» Read more...
RIVER COTTAGE VEG EVERY DAY! at number one!
RIVER COTTAGE VEG EVERY DAY! Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s latest book, has reached the number one spot! After a brilliant autumn and a veg-filled Christmas – Hugh’s RIVER COTTAGE VEG EVERY DAY! is at number one in the hardback non-fiction charts RIVER COTTAGE VEG EVERY DAY! is designed to encourage us to eat more veg....» Read more...
Excitement Building Ahead of Publication of THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS
THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS, the first novel by Benjamin Wood, has been included in 2012 books previews in both the Observer and the Independent, ahead of its publication by Simon & Schuster on February 2. In the Observer the book is one of three first novels recommended as 2012 reads, and in the Independent is featured alongside Eowyn Ivey and...» Read more...
2011 Chart Success for Greene & Heaton Authors
Congratulations to PD James, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Bill Bryson and Jean Auel who all feature prominently in lists of bestselling titles of 2011. In the Sunday Times chart, PD James’s new novel, DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY her follow-on to PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, was the sixth bestselling book of the year in hardback fiction despite...» Read more...
HEARTSTONE named New York Times' 'Favourite Historical Mystery'
HEARTSTONE, the latest book in CJ Sansom’s Shardlake series, has been named by the New York Times as ‘Favourite Historical Mystery’ in its ‘Notable Crime Books of 2011’ feature. The novel is the fifth in the bestselling Shardlake series which follows the adventures of hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake...» Read more...
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