The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read

We were gratified to see a range of our authors listed in this fascinating and well-written series that The Guardian ran last week. Familiar names such as Hesse and Endo were there but also people like Machado de Assis (for Don Casmurro, unfortunately currently not in print) and Dacia Mariani (for Silent Duchess, ditto) but here are some unforgettable titles by Hermann Hesse, Shusaku Endo, Cesare Pavese and Cora Sandel which were all justly celebrated in the Guardian's definitive list – and they're all currently available: Narcissus and Goldmund, Silence,The Moon and The Bonfire and Alberta and Jacob

Another Sillitoe/Bradford Review

We have another review for one of the best biographies of last year, The Life of a Long Distance Writer, this time from The Independent. We are also pleased to be one of the first to announce that Alan Sillitoe has been put forward for the Nobel Prize by not only the author (Professor) Richard Bradford but some other leading English academics.

Guardian Review for Life of a Long-Distance Writer

Richard Bradford's The Life of a Long-Distance Writer has received another review, this time in The Observer.

Scotsman Review for Life of a Long-Distance Writer

Richard Bradford's Life of a Long-Distance Writer, the authorised biography of Alan Sillitoe has received a review
in The Scotsman

A Piece on Peter Vansittart

It's that time of year when you mark the passing of those who have left us as well as celebrating and the loss of Peter Vansittart was felt at Peter Owen just as much as that of Yuri D. Our thanks to a former colleague who has written a ’>piece on this formidable writer, one of the great unsung heroes of literary fiction in the last forty years or so. This is a fine bit of writing on him and Secret Protocols in particular, written for the ReadySteadyBook literary blog.

Yuri Druzhnikov - In Memoriam

Many thanks to Davis University in California who have sent us this tribute to Yuri Druzhnikov, author of Pushkin's Second Wife and Madonna From Russia who died in May this year. The end of the year

Spectator Books of the Year

Richard Bradford's acclaimed biography of Alan Sillitoe,
The Life of a Long Distance Writer' for 2009! , has been mentioned in the Spectator's
Books of the Year for 2009..