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Atlas of the month

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Book of the month

3 for 2 for Book Groups

It's great to hear that book groups are enjoying our novels, and to celebrate this and encourage more groups to discover our authors we're offering a special 3 for 2 deal: buy two copies of any Myriad novel and get the third free. Postage is included too! Contact Vicky Blunden for details.

Latest news

Woman's Hour this week

The Cloths of Heaven was this week's Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Drama. Directed by the BBC's Bruce Young (centre), Sue Eckstein adapted her own novel in five gripping episodes. Matthew Pidgeon (right) starred as Daniel, the young diplomat on his first posting in Africa, with Ruth Gemmell (left) as the mysterious woman he's sure he's met before. If you missed any of the episodes, you can catch up on Listen Again.

Ed Hillyer is one of Waterstone's New Voices 2010

We're thrilled to see that The Clay Dreaming (just published) has not only been selected for Waterstone's prestigious promotion, New Voices 2010, but also picked out as one of its highlights. Author Ed Hillyer is interviewed in Waterstone's Books Quarterly.

Quick Fictions at the University of Sussex

Myriad is proud to be supporting Quick Fictions, a night of short fiction (every story under 300 words) organised at the University of Sussex by Nicholas Royle, author of Quilt.
This annual event features new writing by students and staff at Sussex. If you missed the night itself you can read all the stories here on our website.

Glasshopper selected for 'Exclusively Independent'

Isabel Ashdown's novel will feature alongside nine other books from independent publishers in Legend Press' innovative Exclusively Independent promotion throughout London's independent bookshops and libraries this month. Now in its third printing, Glasshopper was listed in The Observer as one of the best débuts of 2009 and chosen by Juliet Nicolson in the London Evening Standard as one of her favourite books of the year.

People's Book Prize

Two Myriad titles have been chosen for this month's shortlist in The People's Book Prize. Vote in the fiction category for I have waited, and you have come by Martine McDonagh. In the non-fiction category, vote here for Funny Weather by Kate Evans.

Map of the week

Just one of the many maps and graphics in our atlases. This one is from Dan Smith's State of the World Atlas.