Jon Snow, Channel 4 News'Brilliant and original, The Atlas of Health generates another route into understanding the nature of our supposedly globalised world.'
Progress Towards Peace
For more infographics from The State of the World atlas series visit our new image bank.
We're building up a collection of audio and video recordings of our authors on YouTube. Already available are interviews with Sue Eckstein, Ed Hillyer, Woodrow Phoenix, Dan Smith and Lesley Thomson talking about their work.
The latest issue of transFORMATIONS includes an article by Jessica Willis (St Lawrence University, New York) on how she assigns Joni Seager's Atlas of Women in the World in her classes 'to help students grapple with the complex ways that cultural relations are socially created and dynamically interconnected'.
George Monbiot'Brilliant – funny and shocking and apt and beautifully drawn. Kate Evans has told the story of climate change in a way that's accessible, funny and moving.'
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 deal: buy six or more copies of any Myriad novel for just £5 per copy including postage.
Several books groups have invited Sue Eckstein to join them to discuss her novel The Cloths of Heaven. If you would like her to visit your book group, please contact Vicky Blunden.
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.
Keep informed about writing programmes and events in the region with New Writing South. Mentoring, resources and networking opportunities are all on offer as well as workshops and seminars to enhance skills, stretch creativity and broker partnerships with agents and publishers. Membership is open to everyone involved in creative writing in the south.
We are currently offering a design internship as part of the Sussex Internship Programme.
We are also offering a three-month publicity/editorial internship; for more information please download below.
Regrettably, we have no vacancies for work experiencers at present.
Two Myriad authors are starring at Seaford Live this week. Lesley Thomson be talking about A Kind of Vanishing on Tuesday and Nicholas Royle will be reading from and discussing Quilt.
This week sees the launch of our unique online image bank of infographics from The State of the World Atlas by Dan Smith, OBE. A great resource for students, academics, teachers, journalists and businesses, the store will soon contain maps and graphics from our entire State of the World Atlas series. With easy payments and download via Paypal, low resolution images start at only $1 and high resolution images from $50. Start browsing now...
Jonathan Kemp's first novel London Triptych – just published to rave reviews – has been longlisted for the inaugural Green Carnation Prize. The shortlist is announced in November.
Many congratulations to Cynthia Enloe, co-author with Joni Seager of our forthcoming The Real State of America Atlas, who has just received the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement in Peace Studies Award. This prestigious award honours scholar-activists who have made ground breaking contributions across disciplines. Cynthia Enloe's work in gender studies, feminist analysis, and international politics is widely known and, in bestselling books such as Bananas, Beaches and Bases and, most recently, Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War, she links these subjects with a critique of militarism and war.
We're delighted to announce that Lesley Thomson has been awarded the inaugural People's Book Prize for Fiction for her novel, A Kind of Vanishing. This new national prize, the brain-child of late Dame Beryl Bainbridge and supported by the Publishers' Association, is a showcase for new talent in the UK and judged entirely by members of the public.
At our most recent event on Sunday, Myriad's fiction editor, Vicky Blunden, introduced Isabel Ashdown and Robert Dickinson for an afternoon of readings, Q&A and cake as part of the Clifton Montpelier Powis Festival in Brighton.
Myriad founding director and author of several atlases, Dr Judith Mackay was recently interviewed on CNN as she takes on the tobacco industry by trying to wean China off cigarettes.
'My new leg has slowly but surely wheedled its way into my affections. For the first week, putting it on and attempting to cross a room was so incredibly uncomfortable that I seriously considered not bothering with a prosthetic at all. ...' Read The Cloths of Heaven author Sue Eckstein's latest blog
Joni Seager's groundbreaking Atlas of Women in the World is No. 1 in Bitch magazine's list of 'must-have' books: 'Did you know Japan only legalized birth control pills in 1999? That half the food in Asia is made directly by women? That Puerto Rico is the home to four Miss Universes? Joni Seager chronicles these and thousands more facts in one smart volume...what stands out isn't global disparity but the array of commonalities women share the world over.'
We're thrilled to see that The Clay Dreaming has not only been selected for Waterstone's New Voices 2010, but also picked out as one of its highlights. Author Ed Hillyer is interviewed in Waterstone's Books Quarterly.
Authors (from left to right) Ed Hillyer, Robert Dickinson and Tom Connolly were the stars of Myriad's spring fiction launch party. Among the guests were broadcaster Clive Anderson, author John O'Farrell and Duckworth CEO Peter Mayer. See more photos here.
Peter Whittick's novel in progress, 'The Ghosts of Trees', and Kirsty Logan's short story collection, 'Slacker Love Songs', are joint winners of the inaugural West Dean Writer's Retreat Competition. Both entries showed real originality and imagination, and we're very grateful to West Dean College for allowing us to reward two writers instead of having to choose between them. Our judges – The Cloths of Heaven author Sue Eckstein, creative writing tutor Greg Mosse, literary agent Hannah Westland and editor of Waterstone's Books Quarterly Ed Wood – appeared at a packed Brighton Festival event to debate the tricky question of judging writing, and attempted to demystify the publishing industry.
Much Ado Books in Alfriston, East Sussex is an absolute delight, with rare and secondhand books as well as the latest and best publications, most of which have been hand-picked and recommended by owners Cate Olsen and Nash Robbins. A monthly supper club, a newsletter featuring 'Kitchen Aid' when you don't know what to cook, hens in the garden, events such as Scott Pack's Book Swap and much more besides, remind us why there is a joy in book buying and book browsing that the online retailers and high street chains simply don't deliver.
