15th May
Margaret Atwood backlist available in eBook format!
We are proud to announce that our Atwood backlist is today available as an ebook download. And, even better still, to celebrate this eBook release we are giving you the opportunity to download them at a 25% discount on rbooks! This offer is available for two weeks only ending on the 29th of May so hurry! Click here for more.
14th May
Win a pair of tickets to see Mark Haddon
We have 4 pairs of tickets to give away for you to see Mark Haddon talk at Waterstone’s Piccadilly in London on Thurs 17th May at 7pm. All you need to do is answer this question:
What is the title of Mark Haddon’s latest novel?
Send your replies to vintagebooks@randomhouse.co.uk
14th May
The Night Circus is coming...
The Night Circus has captured the imagination of readers across the world with its playful and imaginative tale of love and magic in a mysterious circus which only appears at night, and promises to captivate even more in its beautiful paperback form. To celebrate the paperback launch of Erin Morgenstern's magical debut, Foyles Westfield Stratford City branch will be alive with beguiling tricks from stilt-walkers and a contortionist on Saturday the 26th of May. You can click here for further details.
Foyles are also giving you the chance to win a Night Circus party pack! For more information and for a chance to win click here. Good Luck!
14th May
Alexander MacLeod in conversation with Rupert Thomson
Alexander MacLeod's debut collection of stories, Light Lifting, has been shortlisted for the Giller Prize in Canada and the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award in the UK. With fans including Colm Toibin and Anne Enright, who said of the book, ‘this is thoughtful, beautifully crafted, big-hearted work’, it’s received acclaim from the British press. This Wednesday the 16th he will in conversation with Rupert Thomson at Lutyens & Rubinstein at 6.30 pm. Please click here for further information.
11th May
Ondaatje Prize 2012
Great news for Jonathan Cape, with two books shortlisted for the prestigious Ondaatje Prize, which is awarded to ‘a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place.’ The shortlisted books are Thin Paths by Julia Blackburn and Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts. The winner will be announced at a dinner at The Travellers Club in London on Monday 28 May. Last year’s winner was Chatto and Windus author Edmund de Waal for .The Hare with Amber Eyes
11th May
Martin Amis Event
Martin Amis will be speaking at an exclusive London event on Thursday 12th June with Foyles, in conversation with journalist and author Sam Leith.
The prolific and widely loved Martin Amis, whose 1984 novel Money was adapted to a stellar two-part BBC drama in 2010, will be speaking about his new novel, Lionel Asbo: State of England, about a violent young criminal who wins the lottery from within the confines of his prison cell. You can expect it to be as raw as previous material, as he deconstructs the fickle role of capitalism in western society. This evening will be followed by a signing with the author. For more information and tickets please visit the Foyles website here.
11th May
Mark Haddon talks about his new novel The Red House
The Review Show spoke to Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, about his latest novel The Red House published yesterday, in which eight members of an extended family share a holiday cottage in Wales. Watch the clip here.
10th May
International Writing Blog
This week on the International Writing Blog Fiona Murphy, Senior Press Officer for Vintage, talks about reading and publicising translated literature. Read the full blog 'Do you read Spanish?' here.
10th May
Mary McCartney's Food Launch
On Thursday 3rd May Chatto and Windus launched Mary McCartney's new vegetarian cookbook, Food, at Liberty's of London. The McCartney clan was out in force to support Mary and it was a fabulous. The fourth floor of Liberty was decked out as a summer fete with wild flowers and crates of vegetables giving it a festive feel, despite the cold weather outside!
Read all about it and see more pictures at the Daily Mail
Photo courtesy of Richard Young
10th May
Richard Lloyd Parry Podcast
Richard Lloyd Parry, author of People Who Eat Darkness, and recently shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction, talks about the experience of writing about true crime in this short podcast. The discussion was recorded at Foyles bookshop Bristol in association with the Bristol Festival of Ideas. Take a listen here.
10th May
Broken by Karin Fossum
Today we are publish Karin Fossum's Broken in paperback. It is a gripping novel about the boundary between fact and fiction from the renowned author of the Inspector Sejer mysteries. It is also availble as an audiobook- click here to take a listen.
9th May
Jonathan Cape Competition
On Saturday 26th May, Guy Delisle, Winner of Fauve d'Or: Prix du meilleur album at Angoulême 2012, and acclaimed graphic memoirist, will be talking us through his world and works in a one-off talk, ‘From Shenzhen to Jerusalem’ at the BD & Comics Passion Festival. Delisle has written and drawn five graphic novels including Shenzen, an account of his travels in China, and Pyongyang, an account of his experiences in North Korea. This month, Delisle returns with his strongest work yet Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City - a thoughtful and moving travelogue about life in the Holy City.
BD & Comics Passion Festival, in association with Jonathan Cape, are giving you the opportunity to win a pair of tickets to hear Guy Delisle talk at this event. Click here to find out how you could win.
9th May
Susie Harries wins Wolfson History Prize
Last night, Susie Harries' Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (Chatto & Windus) won this year’s WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE. The prize was awarded jointly with Professor Alexandra Walsham's The Reformation of the Landscape and each author won £25,000.
The winners for 2012 were announced at a reception at the National Gallery yesterday evening. The 2012 judges were Sir Keith Thomas, Professor David Cannadine, Professor Richard Evans and Professor Julia Smith.
The annual prize from the Wolfson Foundation celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
8th May
The Scotsman Literary Dinner with A S Byatt
The Scotsman Literary Dinners bring together renowned authors with excellent food and conversation for a unique literary experience. Each event is developed and chaired by the Scotland on Sunday literary editor, Stuart Kelly. We are delighted to announce that their summer literary dinner will be with A S Byatt.
A S Byatt is one of Britain's best loved and critically acclaimed writers. Her novel Possession won the Booker Prize in 1990, and was turned into a film with Gwyneth Paltrow. Her latest work is Ragnarok, a retelling of Norse myths. Byatt's works have been described by the Scotsman's chief fiction critic, Allan Massie, as both "electrifying and triumphant."
Guests will be greeted with a glass of fizz on arrival and be treated to a three course meal with petits fours as well as a half bottle of wine. While enjoying your meal you will be able to take in a reading from AS Byatt as well as insightful conversation with the event chair Stuart Kelly. Guests will also be able to participate by putting questions to the author.
The evening will conclude with a book signing. Guests will have the opportunity to purchase one of the authors many works and get the chance to get their copy signed! For more information click here.
8th May
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
Barbara Arrowsmith Young was born with severe learning disabilities. Undaunted, she used her strengths to develop brain exercises to overcome her neurological deficits. She has gone on to change countless lives. The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, out May 24th, interweaves her personal tale with riveting case histories from her more than thirty years of working with both children and adults.
24th April
Desmond Elliott Prize
The longlist for the Desmond Elliott prize was announced today. Our congratulations go out to Grace McCleen whose debut The Land of Decoration has been chosen! This year marks the fifth
anniversary of the £10,000 award for a first novel published in the UK, set up in memory of the celebrated publisher and literary agent Desmond Elliott to ‘enrich the careers of new writers’.
The criteria of the Prize require longlisted novels to display confident and compelling narratives and feature original and arresting characters. Good Luck Grace!
23rd April
The April Vintage Podcast
This month Andrew Motion answers your Twitter questions about Silver, graphic novelist Simone Lia discusses her new work Please God, Find Me a Husband, designers Sue Timney and Steve Davies join Vintage Classics editor Laura Hassan to explain their ideas behind the new V&A Vintage Classics series of books, and Andrew Motion reads from Chinese poet Liu Xiabo’s June Fourth Elegies. Listen to the podcast here.
23rd April
World Book Night
Tonight is the night! This evening, 20,000 passionate readers will gift 24 copies of one of their favourite books to encourage those who don't regularly read to fall in love with reading. In addition World Book Night will be giving a further 620,000 books over the course of the year directly to the hardest to reach readers. Essentially, World Book Night is a celebration of books which sees tens of thousands of people spread the joy of reading.
We're very happy to have four titles on the World Book Night list this year - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Touching the Void by Joe Simpson and I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith.
20th April
Colin Grant on MARLEY
Colin Grant, author of the acclaimed book I&I: THE NATURAL MYSTICS: MARLEY, TOSH & WAILER, takes a cameo role at the Vintage Books website as a film reviewer, and gives us his thoughts on Kevin Macdonald’s (who made the film of Joe Simpson’s book Touching the Void) new documentary MARLEY…
18th April
Pulitzer Prize
Congratulations to Karen Russell, whose wonderful debut Swamplandia! has been named a 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Fiction. Authors Denis Johnson and the late David Foster Wallace were also named as finalists.