Julie Pickford has written a diary novel, but it will focus on her life in 1976, rather than her time working with ex-BBC chat-show hostFirst it was Kay Burley, then former TV producer and Channel 4 and Sky exec Jacquie Lawrence publishing a novel, now Monkey hears another telly type has taken up the pen. Entertainment and comedy PR guru Julie Pickford has written a memoir, following some encouragement from Father Ted’s commissioner Seamus Cassidy. Fear not Jonathan Ross or Hat Trick, it’s not about her time working on BBC shows such as Have I Got News for You or Ross’s axed BBC1 chat show. Instead Pickford has turned back the clock to her teenage years in her diary novel 1976 Teen. It looks back to a time of “no mobiles, no emails, gmails or apps. In fact, no internet. No Starbucks, Ikea, Botox or Sky. Terrestrial 1, Digital 0. Computers were the size of a house and tablets were in a bottle. Pods were for peas, birds tweeted, pads were scribbled on and apples were eaten. Phones were in red boxes attached to pavements with queues outside. Sundays were shut and photo shopping meant going to Boots. Selfies existed, but took a week to develop. TV went off at night. Climate change was just the view from your window. No one bothered with Hallo’ween and McDonalds was exotic.” Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Joseph is publishing a new travel-inspired memoir from Sue Perkins called East of Croydon: blunderings through India and South East Asia. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Rachael Bland, who has incurable cancer, is in a "race against time" to publish a memoir for her two-year-old son, Freddie. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Morpurgo has joined Jonathan Bryan at the launch of "powerful" memoir, Eye Can Write. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Actor Michael Caine is publishing his first book since his 2010 autobiography The Elephant to Hollywood (Hodder) in his 85th year this October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rider is publishing the memoir of a former death row inmate, one of the longest-serving, falsely imprisoned individuals in American history, Anthony Ray Hinton. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sally Field said she spent more than five years writing her memoir, titled “In Pieces.” Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2017-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins imprint HQ is to be the UK publisher for Brave, the "courageous" memoir and manifesto from former actress Rose McGowan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'I Want You to Know We're Still Here,' a post-Holocaust memoir by Esther Safran Foer, has been acquired in a North American rights deal by Tim Duggan at Crown. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hinton worked for media mogul for more than 50 years before he resigned from News Corp at height of hacking scandalRupert Murdoch’s righthand man for more than 50 years is to have his memoirs published, providing one of the most informed portraits of the media mogul to date.Les Hinton, who... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bluemoose Books is to publish Naseem Khan's memoir Everywhere is Somewhere in November. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has acquired a "heart-breaking and uplifting" memoir, Caged Bird, by Katy Morgan-Davies, who was born into an abusive London cult and lived in captivity for three decades. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Before Sachsgate felled his career, Wossy was top of the chatshow tree. Now he makes do with Gino D’Acampo while Graham Norton entertains Tom CruiseBack at the end of March, Graham Norton staged a live version of his chatshow for Comic Relief. One of the many guests on his extended sofa that... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jonathan Cape has acquired The Hungover Games, a memoir by journalist Sophie Heawood about life as a single mother, following a "fierce" auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Singer songwriter James Arthur is publishing a memoir with Hodder and Stoughton on 5th October, called Back to the Boy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The far rightwinger, dropped by the publisher following his comments on child abuse, vows to make lives of ‘professional victims a living hell’After his memoir Dangerous was very publicly dumped by his publisher, hard-right professional provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has announced he will instead... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snooker player John Virgo of BBC "Big Break" fame is publishing his memoir with John Blake Publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dear World, which will recount the young Twitter activist’s experience of war and flight from her war-torn home, is scheduled for autumn releaseA seven-year-old Syrian refugee whose tweets from war-torn Aleppo won her a global following is set to write a book. Bana al-Abed’s Dear World will... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Editions Fayard will publish Barack and Michelle Obama’s memoirs in the French language, chairman and c.e.o. Sophie de Closets has announced Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Publishing, the largest publisher of translations, will be at the London Book Fair with a rights list of suspense, memoir and literary titles. The post Amazon Publishing at London Book Fair: Literary Fiction, Suspense, Memoir appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brendan Cox, the husband of the late Labour MP Jo Cox, is publishing a book about her life with Two Roads the day before the first anniversary of her death. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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