Greaves shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2014

The Skull in the Wood, the debut novel by Sandra Greaves has been shortlisted for the prestigious Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2014. The prize was set up to honour the very best new and emergent writers of children’s fiction, and has helped to launch the careers of previous winners and shortlisted authors including John Boyne, Siobhan Dowd and Sally Nicholls.

Greaves’ gothic tale for children aged 9-12 skilfully blends setting and myth to create a startlingly original ghost story. With dogs turning wild in the rolling mists of Dartmoor and a resurrected ancient curse, this book will have young readers quaking under the covers.

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THE BULLET CATCHER'S DAUGHTER to Angry Robot

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Angry Robot has signed a two-book deal for alternate history books from Rod Duncan. Publishing director Marc Gascoigne did the deal with Ed Wilson of Johnson & Alcock for world English language rights. The series will be called The Fall of the Gaslit Empire, with first title The Bullet Catcher's Daughter released in September 2014, and the sequel,Unseemly Science following in 2015.

The books follow Elizabeth Barnabus, who lives a double life posing as her private detective brother, and the problems she faces when she comes up against the all-powerful patent office.

LIVE AT THE BRIXTON ACADEMY launched in style

A star-studded launch for LIVE AT THE BRIXTON ACADEMY was held at the exclusive members' club Apt48, with authors Simon Parkes and JS Rafaeli both signing books.

The exclusive insight into the genesis and first thirty years of London's most iconic music venue, LIVE AT THE BRIXTON ACADEMY is serealised in The Mail on Sunday, and Simon has been interviewed in the Guardian and for Front Row on Radio 4.

N Quentin Woolf picked in GQ Top 10 books of 2014

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N Quentin Woolf's stunning Debut THE DEATH OF THE POET has been chosen by GQ magazine as one of the Top 10 books to read in 2014: see here.

The book "explores what it means to be a man and what one will endure for love in the modern world, from post-WWI England to Nineties America", and will be published on 4th April by Serpent's Tail.