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Quercus saw an inevitable downturn in sales in the first half of 2011 after its Stieg Larsson enhanced 2010 numbers, but still managed to increase profit, improve its cash position, grow digital sales seven-fold and pay its first ever dividend to shareholders.
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Quercus has acquired two novels by South African author, Rosie Fiore.
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By: Tracy,
on 9/5/2011
Quercus has appointed a new finance director and reshuffled its board of directors.
Paul Lenton, a chartered accountant who last worked on establishing a new London operation for US advertising agency Creature London, will begin his role as finance director for Quercus today (30th August).
Mike McGrath, Paul Lenton's predecessor, has now taken on a wider role as executive director of group sales and will oversee all of Quercus' sales, marketing, rights, co-edition and publicity efforts worldwide.
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Quercus has bought another two books by its young adult fiction author Cat Clarke.
Roisin Heycock, editorial director at Quercus Children's Books, bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Victoria Birkett of Miles Stott. The first of the two titles, Undone, will be published in January 2013. It is about a teenage girl's revenge on her peers following the suicide of her gay friend due to bullying.
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By: admin,
on 7/31/2011
Beckett, Bernard. (2006) Genesis. London: Quercus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84724-930-2. Author age: young adult. Litland recommends age 14+.
The island Republic has emerged from a ruined world. Its citizens are safe but not free. Until a man named Adam Forde rescues a girl from the sea. Fourteen-year-old Anax thinks she knows her history. She’d better. She’s sat facing three Examiners and her five-hour examination has just begun. The subject is close to her heart: Adam Forde, her long-dead hero. In a series of startling twists, Anax discovers new things about Adam and her people that question everything she holds sacred. But why is the Academy allowing her to open up the enigma at its heart? Bernard Beckett has written a strikingly original novel that weaves dazzling ideas into a truly moving story about a young girl on the brink of her future.
Irregardless of whether you are an evolutionist or creationist, if you like intellectual sci-fi you’ll love this book. How refreshing to read a story free from hidden agendas and attempts to indoctrinate its reader into a politically-correct mindset. And while set in a post-apocalyptic era, the world portrayed is one in which inhabitants have been freed from the very things that sets humans apart from all other creation, including man-made. Once engulfed in the story, the reader is drawn into an intellectual battle over this “difference” between man and man-made intelligence. The will to kill; the existence of evil. A new look at original sin. And a plot twist at the end that shifts the paradigm of the entire story.
Borrowing from the American movie rating scale, this story would be a PG. Just a few instances of profanity, it is a thought-provoking read intended for mature readers already established in their values and beliefs, and who would not make the error of interpreting the story to hold any religious metaphors. The “myth” of Adam and Art, original sin and the genesis of this new world is merely a structure familiar to readers, not a message. The reader is then free to fully imagine this new world without the constraints of their own real life while still within the constraints of their own value system.
Genesis is moderately short but very quick paced, and hard to put down once you’ve started! Thus it is not surprising to see the accolades and awards accumulated by Beckett’s book. The author, a New Zealand high school teacher instructing in Drama, English and Mathematics, completed a fellowship study on DNA mutations as well. This combination of strengths gives Genesis its intrigue as well as complexity. Yet it is never too theoretical as to exclude its reader. See our review against character education criteria at Litland.com’s teen book review section. And pick up your own copy in our bookstore!
Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Quercus), the first book in the late Swedish journalist's Millennium thriller trilogy, has become only the sixth adult novel to sell more than two million copies since records began.
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Quercus has become the latest publisher to join the iBookstore, making the likes of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy available for iPad and iPhone.
The publisher does not yet seem to have implemented full agency pricing. On Amazon, it does not specify that Quercus is setting the prices of its e-books, unlike its fellow agency publishers. Fifteen Quercus titles are available on the iBookstore from today.
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Anthony Cheetham has left Atlantic Books and resigned as a director of the company. It is understood that Cheetham left the publisher yesterday (30th June) with a memo circulated internally announcing his departure. His role has been under discussion for weeks, and rumours of the split have been circulating for some time.
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By: Tracy,
on 12/6/2010
tall tales & short stories is thrilled to welcome Gregory Hughes to the blog. Gregory very kindly took some time out from his busy schedule to answer a few questions about UNHOOKING THE MOON which won the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.
The Booktrust Teenage Prize is a national book prize that recognises and celebrates the best in contemporary writing for teenagers. It is run with the support of The Reading Agency, which publicises the Teenage Prize in libraries across the UK, primarily through coordination with public and school library services.
Previous winners include Patrick Ness for The Knife of Never Letting Go (a tall tales & short stories book recommendation) and Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book.
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By: Keith Mansfield,
on 9/11/2010
By definition, the Universe is a pretty big place, so the questions we ask about it tend to produce suitably mind-boggling answers. That’s one of the reasons why astronomy and cosmology can be such fascinating subjects.
Stuart Clark, author of The Sun Kings, has just published a new book in the Quercus Big Questions series called “The Universe”. Last Wednesday, he gave a talk on those same questions to a packed audience at the University of Hertfordshire. It was so popular that nearly a hundred people had to be turned away. I’m disappointed for them, but thrilled that popular science and, especially, astronomy, has really caught the public’s imagination.
The book covers twenty questions you might want to ask about the Universe, beginning with “What is it?” and going all the way through to asking “If it had a creator”. I didn’t expect Stuart to be able to cover everything in between in an hour and a quarter, but he managed the contents list impressively. Especially when he began by showing this image from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Planck observatory/telescope and saying that here is everything that is, that ever was and that ever will be.
The first thing to say is that there were more questions than answers. It was refreshing to hear a scientist speak with such an open mind, without claiming that all the major debates are settled. The talk flowed very well, and some of the questions covered were:
What is the Universe?
How old is the Universe?
How did the Universe form?
What were the first celestial objects?
Can we travel through time and space?
What are black holes?
What is dark energy?
How will the Universe end?
Stuart didn’t talk about the aspects of relativity theory that allow time travel into the future, instead showing a representation of the Alcubierre Drive that, theoretically, could allow for faster than light travel, surfing a self-generated wave of antigravity. Personally, I found the discussion on the very first celestial objects the most thought-provoking. Afterwards we went for a beer in a local Hatfield pub and the conversation moved onto the astronomically connected music of Canadian rockers Rush, with songs such as Cygnus X1 (the first black hole candidate to be discovered) and Natural Science.
If anyone has a q
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Very interesting analysis. I read screenwriting books even though I'm working on a novel. I think there is so much we can learn from films that can add to the excitement and tension in our writing.
I'm not saying we should make books into mini-movies, but there are certainly elements we can borrow. When I'm writing I'll think of it visually and apply those scenes to a film like structure. When people tell me about a book saying how it read like a film, or they could see it being made into a blockbuster I know what the writer applied the same techniques.
The Johnny Macintosh books sound fantastic and I'll certainly be recommending them to my daughter to read.
Thanks again Tracy.
Glad you enjoyed the post, Anthony.
I think I write in a very visual, cinematic way and as I write it certainly plays out in my head as a film but that probably also has something to do with my years of working in the film industry.
Enjoy the books!
brilliant post!
I was nodding all the way through this post like a tacky dog in the back of a 1970s car! I spent the late 80s and 90s working as a planner in ad agencies in London and have only just realised how much of what I learned then has filtered through to my writing.
Thanks to both!
Thanks Candy and Sue
Glad you both enjoyed Keith's post.
:)