New Scientist'A new kind of visual journalism, The State of the World Atlas book comes with a flavour of originality hard to find in publishing today.'
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'.
If you like our books and would be interested in an internship or work experience placement with Myriad, please send your CV with an email explaining your particular areas of interest. We are now fully-booked over the summer, but will have places to offer from September onwards.
Deborah Moggach'A funny, moving and quirky coming-of-age story, The Spider Truces is hugely enjoyable.'
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. 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.
As part of Local Author Week, Isabel Ashdown will be signing copies of her début novel Glasshopper in Waterstone's Chichester store...
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, supported by the Publishers' Association, was the brain-child of late Dame Beryl Bainbridge and is a showcase for new talent in the UK, with only the public voting for the winners.
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 interviewed on CNN this week as she takes on the tobacco industry by trying to ween China off cigarettes.
'For the past few months I’ve been conscious of the forty or so books piled precariously on the shelf behind the chair in which I’ve spent so many hours since April...' Read the latest from The Cloths of Heaven author Sue Eckstein.
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.
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.
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.
