11/02/10

God Bless Our Love on Radio 4

Gemma Hirst is delighted to announce that Ray Connolly's radio play God Bless Our Love will be broadcast as the Afternoon Play Radio 4 on Wednesday 17th February at 2.15pm, starring Alexander Mathie and David Neilson. The play is based on characters in his novel Love Out Of Season published by Quercus.

11/02/10

Chinese Food In Minutes

The new series of 'Chinese Food in Minutes' launched with over a million viewers.

This is a record for Channel 5 in this slot. There are twelve more episodes to go, next weeks is coinciding with the Chinese New Year, this being the year of the Tiger.

10/02/10

Jess Williams' Material Girl

Jess Williams' episode of BBC1 hit show Material Girl goes out on Thursday 11th February at 8pm on BBC1.

10/02/10

Monty Don

Monty Don at the Oxford Playhouse - Friday 12th February

Join one of Britain's best-loved gardeners, Monty Don, as he talks about some of his favourite gardens from around the world and gives you expert tips on how to get your garden blooming.

In a world that is changing so dramatically around us, Monty will also explore the future of gardening.

Educated at the University of Cambridge and best known for presenting the BBC television series Gardeners' World, Monty will offer an insight into what life is like in front of the lens.

09/02/10

Ching-He Huang

Now she's back on Five - with a new thirteen part series... Chinese Food in Minutes" starts tonight (Tue 9th Feb) at 7.30.

Ching; young chef and best selling author is ready to demonstrate just how quickly, delicious and healthy Chinese food can be created. In each show she prepares three mouth watering recipes demonstrating how delicious and healthy authentic Chinese cuisine can be. Watching her will be two participants who have never cooked Chinese food before. They will try to reproduce what they've been taught and cook a fabulous feast to serve to their friends at the end of the show. Will they prove to be gifted Chinese chefs? Or make a total hash of it? Ching will delight in separating the Szechuan supremos from the dumpling dunces.

05/02/10

The Pi**ed-Off Club on Heatseekers Chart

PFD is delighted to announce that Mink Elliot's The Pi**ed-Off Parents Club is the best-selling debut fiction paperback in the UK and is number two in The Booksellers Heatseekers chart.

*The Pi**ed-Off Parents Club* follws perennially pied off first-time mum, Roxy. She and her partner Jack have left London for a new life in the village of Riverside, with their ten-month-old daughter Joey. But their new house resembles a building site and Roxy is struggling to cope with parenthood. With no family or friends to turn to for help, she sets up a club in order to meet like-minded parents, and so begins The Pied-Off Parents Club.

You can buy the novel here.

04/02/10

ALEX SCARROW’S TIMERIDERS PUBLISHED TODAY

PFD are delighted to announce TimeRiders, the first novel in thriller writer Alex Scarrow’s new series for children is published today by Puffin.

The series follows Liam, Maddy and Sal, three teenagers who cheat death but find themselves recruited as TimeRiders, part of an agency that no one knows exists with only one purpose: to fix broken history. The past and future is being manipulated by unscrupulous time travellers who change critical historical events. Only the TimeRiders can protect us.

A thrilling preview trailer can be viewed here.

04/02/10

TOO YOUNG TO GET OLD BY CHRISTINE WEBBER

PFD are pleased to announce that Christine Webber’s spirited and inspirational guide for the female baby boomer Too Young to Get Old will be published today by Piatkus.

You can read Christine’s recent article in The Daily Telegraph about baby boomer’s lifestyles here.

03/02/10

INSPECTOR GHOTE RETURNS

PFD are proud to announce that Penguin will be publishing four backlist novels featuring the intelligent, charming and wily Inspector Ghote written by the esteemed H.R.F Keating. The crime novels are set in India and give a wonderful psychological feel to morals, customs and ways of life there. They will feature a foreword by Alexander McCall Smith and will be published early 2011