Deborah Moggach'A funny, moving and quirky coming-of-age story, The Spider Truces is hugely enjoyable.'
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'.
Sheila Kitzinger'The Food of Love is vibrant, exciting, funny – and based on up-to-date research.'
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.
Wed 15 February 7pm
To celebrate LGBT History Month Stella Duffy and Jonathan Kemp will read from their latest books and discuss their writing at Crawley Library.
Find out more about this and other Myriad events
Many thanks to everyone who supported the launch of First Fictions last weekend. This was just the beginning of Myriad's exciting collaboration with the University of Sussex to champion new talent and celebrate debut authors of fiction and graphic novels. And we're delighted to announce that the winner of the first-ever competition for a first graphic novel is Gareth Brookes whose work in progress, The Black Project, was chosen from a very strong shortlist including the writer and artist team Adam Blackman and Dylan Shipley, and creators Con Chrisoulis, Hannah Eaton, Tom Eglington, Thom Ferrier and Paula Knight.
Thrilling news just out: Elizabeth Haynes' gripping debut Into the Darkest Corner, named Amazon's Best Book of the Year 2011, is one of the ten books selected for TV Book Club which returns to More4 this month.
The other books include S J Watson's Before I Go to Sleep, The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt, The Somnambulist by Essie Fox, Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, Girl, Reading by Katie Ward, The Report by Jessica Francis Kane, The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson, Half of The Human Race by Anthony Quinn, and You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik.
Elizabeth Haynes will appear on on the show on Sunday 19 February.
'As far as feats of bravery go, walking onto a stage in front of a lot of people, shaking hands with Sanjeev Bhaskar and the Vice Chancellor cannot really compete with other amputees’ conquering of wild places...' Read Sue Eckstein's latest blog
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.
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.'
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.
