Blake Friedmann is extremely sad to announce that our client of 29 years, Gilbert Adair, died this morning.

Blake Friedmann is extremely sad to announce that our client of 29 years, Gilbert Adair, died this morning. To read more, please click on the following links:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/gilbert-adair-1944-2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/dec/09/gilbert-adair-dies

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/dec/09/gilbert-adair-man-letters-cinema?newsfeed=true

Andy Briggs' TARZAN: THE GREYSTOKE LEGACY shortlisted for Sefton Super Reads Awards 2012

TARZAN: THE GREYSTOKE LEGACY, Andy Briggs' modern day revamp of the classic franchise, has been shortlisted for the Sefton Super Reads Awards 2012. The winner, chosen by students across the UK, is set to be announced in Spring 2012 in conjunction with the prize for the best review written by one of the student voters. More details to be announced at a later date.

Praise for TARZAN: THE GREYSTOKE LEGACY:

"I fell in love with Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan when I was 11 years old, and was jealous when he married that silly Jane. I would have been even more jealous of the Jane in TARZAN: THE GREYSTOKE LEGACY - she is not silly at all!  And what a stroke of brilliance to transform Tarzan into an eco-warrior. The Lord of the Jungle is with us still.' -- Dame Jane Goodall, Conservationist

'Tarzan is back with a bloodcurdling roar! An epic re-book of the classic series.' -- Eoin Colfer, author of ARTEMIS FOWL

'CRACKING jungle adventure with the one and only, all- time best eco-warrior, Tarzan.' -- MG Harris, author of THE JOSHUA FILES

'Wow! All the things I loved about the original Tarzan books rebooted for modern-day Africa, with a plot that will whisk you off your feet and swing you through the trees at breakneck speed.' -- Roderick Gordon, author of TUNNELS

'This is a lion-roaring read of an adventure that seized me from the first page and refused to let go.The action is breathless, the characters are enthralling and the environmental message is vital. Tarzan is not only stunningly reborn, he is more relevant today than he ever was.' -- Chris Bradford, author of YOUNG SAMURAI.

Deon Meyer takes the bestseller lists by storm!

Deon Meyer's new Benny Griessel crime thriller 7 DAE (published in Afrikaans by Human & Rousseau, English title 7 DAYS) tops South African charts and TRACKERS, which managed to fend off the likes of Paolo Coelho, James Patterson, and many others, to maintain the Number One spot for eight weeks, is not far behind. TRACKERS was launched in the UK, USA, South Africa and Germany in September and the Sunday Times has tipped it as Meyer's 'best work yet'.  The German edition, published by Aufbau as ROTE SPUR, has reached Number One on the KrimiZEIT Bestseller lists too.

Three other titles (13 HOURS English and Afrikaans (13 UUR) and the Afrikaans edition of TRACKERS (SPOOR) also feature in the SA Top 100. Kirkus in the US and the Independent and the Sunday Times in the UK have just named TRACKERS one of the best thrillers of 2011.

In addition to storming the charts, The South African Boeke Prize Fanatics Choice Award for 2011 was the latest in the list of accolades for 13 HOURS, just two weeks after the novel won for Best Thriller in the Barry Awards at Bouchercon in St Louis on September 15. The novel was also shortlisted for the 2011 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, and the CWA International Dagger award in the UK, and the South African Sunday Times Literary Prize.

It's no wonder Deon (and fellow Blake Friedmann client Margie Orford), have been dubbed 'King and Queen of South African Crime Fiction'!

Le Seuil publish TRACKERS in France in February 2012 and Deon Meyer will be visiting France, Holland and Scandinavia for publicity tours in February and March 2012.

Praise for TRACKERS:
'How fulfilling the rewards are for those seeking crime fiction with real texture and intelligence...Trackers is a sprawling, invigorating and socially committed crime novel.'-- Barry Forshaw, The Independent

'I am steeling myself for this month's inevitable hysteria as publishers and booksellers trumpet that "South Africa is the new Scandinavia" when it comes to crime writing and that Deon Meyer is "South Africa's Answer to Stieg Larsson". He's not; he's far better...With TRACKERS I would suggest he has moved into the John le Carré class…mainly because this is a book which is a great thriller and a fine novel of characterisation.' -- Mike Ripley, Shots Magazine

Praise for 13 HOURS:
'Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters. THIRTEEN HOURS proves he should be on everyone's reading list. This book is great!' -- Michael Connelly

'Pulse-pounding…this crime novel...further enhance[s] Meyer's reputation as a deft storyteller.' -- Publishers Weekly

'Superbly accomplished chase thriller by a South African writer now gaining deserved international recognition…Watch out for TRACKERS, his new book due out in September.' -- Financial Times

Praise for Deon Meyer:

'Deon Meyer is one of the best crime writers on the planet.' -- Mail on Sunday

'Deon Meyer's novels...are absolutely worthy of Hammett and Chandler, the great North American Masters of the Thirties and the Forties' -- Carmen Méndez, Expansión

'Deon Meyer is one of the giants of crime fiction.' -- Emma Rodriguez, El Mundo

'Without a doubt, Deon Meyer is one of the greatest contemporary crime novelists.' -- Alexandre Fillion, Livres Hebdo

Joseph O'Connor awarded 2012 Irish PEN Award

Joseph O'Connor is the winner of the prestigious Irish PEN Award 2012. The awards ceremony will take place on 10 February, 2012 at the Royal St George Yacht Club, Dún Laoighre. This award celebrates Irish born writers, who have made outstanding contributions to Irish Literature. The winner is nominated and chosen by the members of Irish PEN as well as by the previous winners of the award. The 2012 Irish PEN Dinner and Award is an event open to the public, so please click here if you wish to purchase tickets for it. To read more about the award, please click here.

GHOST LIGHT, Joseph's most recent work, was published in 2010 and was chosen as Dublin's One Book, One City in April 2011. His next work will be a collection of short stories and will be published by Harvill Secker.

Praise for Joseph O'Connor:

'Joe O'Connor occupies a special place in Irish life. The novel is artfully constructed … O'Connor's evocation of such a difficult, morbid and yet morally beautiful man through the memory of an earthy and vivacious woman is remarkably ambitious and imaginative. Ghost Light is full of…sly pleasures and there is a great deal of broad comedy' -- The Irish Independent

'O'Connor's writing is compellingly beautiful and Molly is marvellously drawn.  A captivating read.' -- Jane Housham, The Guardian               

'GHOST LIGHT displays an astonishing command of voice, using tones that are both tender and powerfully emotional, with brilliant command of the period.' -- Colm Tóibín, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year 2010

SHOW ME A HERO featured in Sunday Express

SHOW ME A HERO: THE SIN OF RICHARD BYRD JNR, published this month by Biteback in the UK, was featured in the Sunday Express this weekend.

SHOW ME A HERO is a gripping true adventure story about ambition, greed and courage set in 'The Roaring Twenties'. The birth of a brave new world of jazz, flapper girls, motor cars, prohibition, bootleg liquor and the airplane brings about a race to be the first to fly over the North Pole, which is won by Richard Byrd Jnr, who becomes an all-American hero and celebrity. Losers in the race are Amundsen and Nobile (who was supported by Mussolini) and their teams. But Byrd had lied and his exposure came long after others had died as a result of his deception.

For the full feature, click here.