Jon Snow, Channel 4 News"Brilliant and original, The Atlas of Health generates another route into understanding the nature of our supposedly globalised world."
The Guardian"Lesley Thomson skilfully evokes the era and the slow-moving quality of childhood summers, suggesting the menace lurking just beyond the vision of her young protagonists."
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.
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 by following this link.
The Cloths of Heaven will be the Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Drama from Monday 15th – Friday 19th March at 10.45am, repeated on the same days at 7.45pm. In Sue Eckstein's dramatisation of her own novel, British diplomat Daniel Maddison on his first posting to West Africa, finds himself rebelling against the traditional round of ex-pat cocktail parties, golf and gossip. Directed by BBC's Bruce Young (centre), the cast includes Ruth Gemmell (Rachel) and Matthew Pidgeon (Daniel) pictured here.
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.
The Clay Dreaming (published 11 March) has been shortlisted for Waterstone's prestigious New Voices 2010 promotion; the final twelve début novels will be announced mid-March. Author Ed Hillyer is interviewed in Waterstone's Books Quarterly's.
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.
Just one of the many maps and graphics in our atlases. This one is from Dan Smith's State of the World Atlas.
