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Welcome to our News Page. Here you will find news about Signature, our publishers and our titles. Check back regularly for information on press, events, author signings and anything else we feel deserves a mention.
When Money Dies hits Amazon's bestseller list!
We are excited to announce that When Money Dies, from Old Street Publishing, is currently number 14 on Amazon's bestseller list. There was an article in this week's Sunday Times with Warren Buffett claiming the author to be a financial guru. The author was on Radio 4's Today programme and there's more high level publicity to come.
Posted 14th July 2010
Quartet's Death In Bordeaux
Released this month, Death In Bordeaux, from Quartet Books is gaining momemtum in press and reviews. Below are some highlights and dates for forthcoming reviews.
• 8.7.10 Excellent bit of publicity for Death in Bordeaux on an interview on France’s France24.
• An excellent review in the Literary Review, July Issue.
• 25.6.10 Very positive review in The Independent
Forthcoming reviews -
• Review in The Spectator confirmed for July 16th issue
• Review in The Scotsman July 10th
• Review confirmed for The Glasgow Herald.
Check out the Books page for more information about the book.
Posted 9th July 2010
New Publishers
A big welcome to several new publishers who have joined us recently. Click on the links below to find out more about them.
Parkstone International
The Philosophy Press
DJHistory.com
The Secret Seed Society
Imagine Being
Posted 9th July 2010
Beside The Sea is Paperback of the Week in The Guardian
Congratulations to Peirene Press as their first publication Beside the Sea makes Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week in The Guardian on Saturday 6th February. Lezard describes it as "....a mesmerising portrait ... it should be read." Check out the full review here.
Posted 9th Feb 2010
New Publisher
A big welcome to Prestel who joined us last month, adding more beautiful titles to our ever growing art list.
Prestel is one of the world's leading illustrated book publishers with a stunning list of beautifully crafted books on all aspects of art, architecture, photography and design.
Posted 9th Feb 2010
Merry Christmas from Signature!
With not long to go until Christmas and the emphasis swapping from buying to keeping the tills ringing, we now have time to update you on some of our titles recent press. Here are just the highlights, click on the title to be taken to the books page for a full press run down.
Comedian and author Tim Key is everywhere at the moment as he promotes his book Instructions, Guidelines, Tutelage… from Invisible Dot.
Scratching Shed’s On Behalf of the Committee has been claiming the air waves in the North with author Tony Hannan appearing on BBC Radio Manchester, Leeds, York, Lancashire, Merseyside, Yorkshire, Humberside and Sheffield. The book has also been reviewed in Wigan Today, Bradford and Argus Telegraph and The Yorkshire Post. Their Rugby League titles have also been getting some press attention, with three of their titles grabbing the top 3 spots in the Times Top 10 Rugby League Books for Christmas. The titles are Down and Under, 1895 and All That... and Tries and Prejudice. See the publisher’s response in Scratching Shed’s Newsletter.
Old Street Publishing has seen great success with their art history book A Crisis of Brilliance. It’s featured as Book of the Week in The Guardian and just this week has featured Start the Week on BBC Radio 4 last week and a review in The Sunday Times. Their humour book Complete and Utter Zebu has been included in several humour round-ups in The Sunday Times and The Guardian as well as pick of the paperbacks in The Sunday Telegraph and a review in The Spectator.
Quartet’s bestselling book against climate change Heaven and Earth continues to be of interest with the conference in Copenhagen and the leaked emails. Author Ian Plimer features in many discussions and blogs in The Guardian as he defends his reasons against climate change.
How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth from Green Books has been recommended by Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen.
Reaktion Books are hitting the papers with Running featuring in The Independent sports round up and The Times Book of the Week. It, along with, Manhood , has also been reviewed in The Observer.
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Posted 21/12/2009
The Booksellers Environment Top Titles
Signature is pleased to announce that two of our publishers feature titles in The Booksellers Environment books chart.
The Transition Handbook from Green Books is number 7 in the '2009 environment top 20' and 23 in the 'environment top 50 of all time.'
Heaven and Earth from Quartet is number 6 in the '2009 environment top 20.'
Posted 02/11/2009
British Book Design and Production Awards Continued......
Congratulations to a couple more of our publishers! This time for Herbs from Herb Treatment from Green Books which won the Environmental award in the British Book Design and Production Awards 2009.
Also to Tate who won the award in the exhibition catalogue catergory with Richard Long. They were also shortlisted and highly commended in the art and photography category with Red Star Over Russia and the children's trade category with Around the World with Mouk.
Check it out here and congratulations to all of you.
Posted 02/11/2009
Design Series wins British Book Design and Production Award!
At the awards ceremony for the British Book Design and Production Awards last night, Antique Collectors’ Club’s Design series won the award in the Brand or Series Identity category.
Check it out here.
The judges said "A series of books about design, they had to be good and these are. The branding is consistent, there is a good use of typography and the covers are superb."
Posted 29/10/2009
Complete and Utter Zebu
Get a taster of Complete and Utter Zebu, the forthcoming title from bestselling authors Simon Rose and Steve Caplin.
Check out their website at http://www.utterzebu.com/blog/ and the Zebu channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/UtterZebu for fresh and funny videos and stories of MPs and many others talking complete zebu!
You can find out more about the book on our New Books page.
Posted 21/10/2009
Books in the press
As they did with Tomas and Dazed and Aroused, Quartet is now gaining a whirlwind of press for Simon Astaire's book, And You Are....? Keep your eye out for an article, written by Astaire in the Mail on Sunday on the 18th October.
Old Street's latest Poe Ballentine book, 501 Minutes to Christ, was given a spectacular review in last week's Bookseller.
"501 MINUTES TO CHRIST is a brilliant travel-memoir by essayist and novelist Poe Ballantine, which offers a view from the lower layers of American society. He is a superb writer, illustrating low life with great humour and honesty as he wanders from town to town, existing on the little money available from the employment he can find. Wonderfully atmospheric, witty and poignant." BOOKSELLER'S CHOICE: JANUARY
Posted 13/10/2009
New Publishers
A big welcome to our new publishers that have joined us this month - The Good Life Press, Scratching Shed and Cornerhouse Publications.
The Good Life Press specializes in publications for the farmer, smallholder and "anyone who wants to grab a slice of the good life, whether they live in the country or city".
Scratching Shed are a small independent publishing company based in Yorkshire, specialzing - at the moment - on rugby league books.
Cornerhouse Publications features publications focussing in contempoary visual arts. Their lists includes architecture, art theory, fashion, film and video, painting, performance and sculpture.
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40 Years of Monty Python
It's been 40 years since the Python team debuted on our screens with Monty Python's Flying Circus. Check out our new books page for information on Methuen's latest Python releases, including The Very Best of Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok.
Posted 05/10/2009
Neverland in The Guardian
Simon Crump's Neverland, from Old Street Publishing, featured in The Guardian this weekend.
"In the profusion of Michael Jackson-related titles published since his death there can be none more singular and diverting than Simon Crump's fourth book, Neverland. Begun in 2006 and completed with eerie synchronicity just four hours before the singer's demise, Neverland is a series of interconnected (very) short stories about the troubled superstar. It's unexpectedly funny, as easy to read as a child's language primer, but somehow a great and elegiac profundity lurks beneath its spare prose and outrageous absurdity."
Check out the full article here.
Posted 21/09/2009
Not The Booker
Signature Book Representation is proud to have two books on The Guardian’s Not the Booker Shortlist; Old Street’s Publishing Neverland and Quartet’s Tomas. Check it out here.
Posted 08/09/2009
New Publishers
A warm welcome to four new publishers who have joined us in the last few months: Legends Publishing, Peirene Press, Twisted Spoon Press and Prospects Books
Legends Publishing brings us a fast growing list of books that tell the passionate stories of legendary players and the die hard fans that support them.
Peirene Press specializes in contemporary European literature in English translation.
Twisted Spoon Press is an independent publishers based in Prague. They focus on translating into English, a variety of writing from Central and Easten Europe.
Prospect Books is one of the very few British publishers to specialise in books about cookery, food history and the ethnology of food.
Check out our New Books page for more information on their books.
Posted 08/09/2009