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Type title here... http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php Type description here... en-us Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:38:30 +0100 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:38:30 +0100 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss PRUE LEITH AUTOBIOGRAPHY Just before work slowed down for the summer Prue Leith, whose novels are getting more and more popular and are being very effectivelt published by Quercus, decided that the time had come to write her autobiography. RELISH exists so far as just a couple of chapters but it is SO compelling and entertaining that we had a major auction. Quercus decided that they couldn't bear to see her on anyone else's list and have paid ... http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1282588710 General http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1282588710&comments=comments http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1282588710 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:38:30 +0100 A VERY UNUSUAL STORY We all complain about how short a shelf-life books have these days. In the bookshop for a couple of weeks (that's if you are lucky!) and then returned - brief day in the sun over. So here's a story to encourage everyone! The first book that I sold when I became an agent twenty three years ago was a novel called LABELS by Harold Carlton. It was a giant success in America selling over ... http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1275990202 General http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1275990202&comments=comments http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1275990202 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:43:22 +0100 PENNY JUNOR After 'ghost writing' three bestselling books in the last two years - Penny Junor has moved publishers and will write a major biography of Prince William for Hodder & Stoughton. Rowena Webb made a pre-emptive six figure offer for world rights.                                                       *************   As it is possibly useful as an indication of the kinds of work I respond to, I include an occasional list of books that I have read for pleasure recently and enjoyed. ... http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1275046997 General http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1275046997&comments=comments http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1275046997 Fri, 28 May 2010 12:43:17 +0100 ELSPETH THOMPSON It is with immense regret that I am sharing the tragic news that my beautiful and brilliant client Elspeth died on Thursday 25th March. Those who knew her are bereft. She was a wonderful writer whose journalism, books and blogs inspired so many. She was about to start work on a brilliant new idea. Elspeth was more than a client, she was a friend and she is irreplaceable. http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1269794518 General http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1269794518&comments=comments http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1269794518 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:41:58 +0100 Denis Avey's story pre-empted by Hodder Denis Avey is a WW2 survivor known as 'the man who broke into Auschwitz'. He was a prisoner of war interned next to the camp and exchanged places over several nights with a Jewish inmate - this and other exploits have earned him the 'Heroes of the Holocaust' medal which was presented to him at 10 Downing Street last week. Rob Broomby, the BBC journalist who discovered Denis' story and has become a close friend, ... http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1268819845 General http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1268819845&comments=comments http://www.janeturnbull.co.uk/news/news.php?entry_id=1268819845 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:57:25 +0000