10/03/10

Lizzie Nunnery's Essay on BBC Radio 3

Lizzie Nunnery reads her Essay, Over the Water, Writing Belonging as part of The Essay, Land Sea and Sky season on BBC Radio 3 tonight at 11pm. Recorded by water, at the pierhead on the Mersey and on the streets of Liverpool, her essay recalls the pleasure of growing up in a city with beaches which she took for granted, then her growing awareness of how the city grew from the meeting of the land and the sea, how the traffic of people and ideas created the identity of the place, the character of the people, and her own sensibility as a writer.

05/03/10

DEAD AID shortlisted for the Bristol Fesitval of Ideas Book Prize

2010 sees the Bristol Festival of Ideas award its second annual Book Prize, in association with Arts and Business.

Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo (published by Penguin) has been officially annouced as one of the six books short listed for the prize out of 130 entries. The winner of the Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize 2010 will be announced live at a special Book Prize Awards Ceremony as part of the Festival in May.

03/03/10

Pauline Prescott Autobiography

Pauline Prescott's heart-rending autobiography, "Smile Though Your Heart is Breaking" is to be published on March 4th. The autobiography has received rave reviews in the nation's press.

Daily Mail Review
Telegraph Review
Times Review

02/03/10

Guy Browning's New Book Released Today

PFD are delighted to announce that the paperback of the Sunday Times Bestseller Never Hit a Jellyfish With a Spade by Guy Browning is published today by Atlantic Books.

The book can be bought here.

01/03/10

The Boy From Baby House Ten

Click here to read Alan Philps' article about his book The Boy From Baby House Ten in the Sunday Telegraph.

01/03/10

Leslie Kenton Reads From Love Affair

26/02/10

Michael Bhim's The Wire: Look Closer on BBC Radio 3

Michael Bhim's episode of The Wire, Look Closer will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at 9.15pm on Saturday 27th February. When community officer Alexander Aldgate is instructed to speak to a local man about his anti-social behaviour, he unearths a mystery. You can listen again to this episode here.

23/02/10

Alex Scarrow on Bestseller List

Alex Scarrow’s debut young adult novel TimeRiders is climbing the Children’s bestseller chart and is now at #40 with sales continuing to rise.

More information can be found on this exciting new series here.

22/02/10

WIDOW 7 9 To Ebury

PFD are pleased to announce that they have sold Widow 7 9 by Sgt 'Bommer' Graham and Damian Lewis to Andrew Goodfellow at Ebury Press.

Sgt ‘Bommer’ Grahame is one of the British Army’s elite Joint Terminal Attack Controllers, and with over 200 kills to his name, he is one of the best.

Highly-trained specialists, JTACs operate from the very heart of the battlefield. Deploying an awesome array of Allied firepower – Apache gunships, A10 tank-busters, F15s and Harrier jump jets – JTACs are routinely called upon to destroy the enemy, while delivering their fellow soldiers from the most desperate situations.

Widow 7 9 tells the story of Bommer Grahame and his five-man Fire Support Team on one brutal tour of Afghanistan. Frequently operating deep behind enemy lines and in the heat of the fiercest fighting in the Afghan theatre, Sgt Grahame notches up 203 confirmed enemy kills, more than one for each day of his tour.

Hunted relentlessly by the Taliban, shot at, blown up and mortared, the devastating airstrikes directed by JTAC Bommer Grahame from ‘danger close’ positions saved countless soldiers’ lives and decimated a relentless enemy.

A riveting account of intense frontline fighting, high-tech weaponry and daily feats of unbelievable heroism, Widow 7-9 offers a fascinating insight into modern soldiering.

Sgt Paul ‘Bommer’ Grahame is an NCO with the Light Dragoons, a formation recce regiment. After his 180-day tour of Afghanistan, Sgt Grahame was commended with an operational award recognising his performance during the most intense battles of the Afghanistan deployment. He is currently on a two-year secondment to a training regiment, teaching his skills to other soldiers.

Damien Lewis has spent 20 years reporting from war and conflict zones around the world. His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers, Operation Certain Death and Apache Dawn, plus the novels Cobra Gold and Desert Claw. He was recently chosen as one of the nation’s ‘20 favourite authors’ for the Government’s World Book Day, and two of his books are presently being produced as feature films,

Widow 7 9 will be published later this year.