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VM Whitworth’s fine debut novel THE BONE THIEF is launched this week. Set in the time of King Alfred’s multicultural Britain, with a stunning cover, it is appropriately being launched with a celebration at the Jorvik Viking Festival in York (2.00 York Mansion House Thursday 16th February). It’s published here by Ebury and a deal is being negotiated right now for German rights.
We are delighted to announce the Harry Bowling Prize for New Fiction shortlist for 2012. The winner and runner up will be announced at the RONA award ceremony on 5th March.
Sheila Bugler CHILD PRETENDING, gritty crime novel of linked murders in South East London
Bren Gosling, SWEEPING UP THE VILLAGE, Rose Tremain-like interlinked stories of East End immigrants
Natalie Lloyd-Evans, A DARK FLOWERING, the lavish world of haute couture exposed in late 1930s Paris
Aline P’nina Tayar, ISLAND OF DREAMS, three cousins explore a traumatic family memory in contemporary Malta
Simon Van der Velde, THE BENJAMIN EXHIBITION, ‘misery’ novel set in the criminal underworld in Newcastle
Principal photography has begun on Channel 4 / Company Pictures’ four-part conspiracy thriller A VERY BRITISH COUP, inspired by the novel by former Labour MP Chris Mullin and written by Robert Jones. The series will star Gabriel Byrne in his first UK TV role in almost 20 years. Byrne will play politician Tom Dawkins, who takes on his superiors in an attempt to uncover the truth behind an industrial accident in Teeside.
Principal photography has also begun on the first episode of crime drama MURDER, written by Robert Jones and produced by Kath Mattock at Touchpaper for BBC Scotland. The director of the original Danish version of TV series THE KILLING, Birger Larsen, is attached to direct.