QUASO Available In The App Store
Quaso, the great new maths puzzle from John Enock, is now available as an iPhone app. Click here to find out more or check out the Mail on Sunday each week.
Sarah Winman's debut novel to Headline
PFD are delighted to announce a major new deal signed at the London Book Fair. Robert Caskie has sold a stunning debut novel by Sarah Winman to Leah Woodburn at Headline, for a significant six-figure sum.
When God was a Rabbit is a mesmerising coming-of-age portrait of childhood, eccentricity, the darker side of love and sex, and the power of family, loss and life.
Mark Pearson signs a deal to co-write Patterson novel
Mark Pearson will be collaborating on a new book with US bestseller James Patterson. Private London will be the second title in a new detective series in the Patterson stable called PRIVATE, and will be published in 2011 in hardback, with a paperback edition to follow in 2012.
Private London will be a London based adventure featuring Dan Carter, the man who heads up the London office of an elite international detective agency that handles investigations the rich and famous don't want the police to be involved in.
The deal was negotiated by Cornerstone m.d. Susan Sandon, Robert Caskie from PFD on behalf of Pearson and Bob Barnett on behalf of Patterson.
Richard Lumsden's Six Loves of Billy Binns on Radio 4
Richard Lumsden’s new original radio play The Six Loves of Billy Binns will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 14.15 on Wednesday 21st April.
Directed by Sally Avens, Tom Courtenay stars as 110 year old Billy, who wants to remember what love feels like before he dies. For further information and to listen again please click here
“You’ll find it hard to keep the tears from your eyes listening to.... Lumsden’s touching, elegiac play…. A spellbinding listen” Radio Times
Nick Weston serialised in the Daily Mail
Nick Weston was the cover star of the Daily Mail's Weekend magazine on Saturday 17th April. Extracts from his forthcoming book The Treehouse Diaries were serialised to great acclaim. Nick has been called a modern-day Robinson Crusoe and is the subject of much envy amonst other would-be escapists.
Look out for his book The Treehouse Diaries published on 17th May and to read more about Nick's activities see his blog:
www.huntergathercook.com
Tony Fitzjohn To Create New Lion Haven
Tony Fitzjohn is to create a new haven for lion cubs in Kenya. Read this Sunday Times article to find out more about his plans.
Craig Higginson's Dream of the Dog at the Finborough Theatre
Jessica Cooper is delighted to announce that Dream of the Dog by Craig Higginson will open at the Finborough Theatre on Tuesday 27th April, and will run until Saturday 22nd May 2010.
Directed by Katie McAleese and starring Janet Suzman, Ariyon Bakare, Gracy Goldman and Bernard Kay Dream of the Dog is set in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, shortly after the millennium. The play is a story of South Africa’s emerging democracy, and its continued negotiation with its past in order to find a workable identity for its future, and takes an unflinching look at the twin mantras of the post-Mandela age – reconciliation and forgiveness – as it asks whether black and white can ever live together peacefully. For further information including how to book tickets, please click here
Craig is the Literary Manager of Johannesburg’s Market Theatre and has previously worked in the UK for such companies as the RSC, the Young Vic, the Hampstead and the Almeida. As a writer and director his work has been nominated for or won several theatre awards in South Africa and has toured internationally. Craig’s new play, The Girl in the Yellow Dress, will premiere in South Africa in 2010 and will then transfer to Edinburgh, LIVE and Glasgow with the Citizen’s Theatre.
Craig is also a novelist and his fiction is published by Picador Africa in South Africa.
QUASO
Quaso the new maths puzzle created by John Enock is now appearing each week in the Mail on Sunday. If you want to test your mathematical skills, have a go in next Sunday's edition.
Muddle Earth starts on BBC1
We are delighted to announce that Muddle Earth, a major new animated comedy-adventure series featuring the voice of David Jason, which parodies the story of The Lord of the Rings made it's debut on BB1 yesterday. The show is lead written by Sprackling and Smith.
The series will continue every day this week at 3.50pm The first episode is available on BBC iPlayer here.