Two exciting pre-Christmas sales this week - and proof that all is not lost in the non-fction market!

JOHNNY KINGDOM the star of two BBC2 series about his life onExmoor and a much loved raconteur and countryman is writing his ' WEST COUNTRY TALES' for Transworld and Preface have signed up Tessa Hainsworth again. The memoir of her move from a London executive job to a postie in rural Cornwall was a huge hit this summer and her new book A SEAGULL IN THE ATTIC; MAKING A LIFE IN CORNWALL will be out in hardback in July 2010.