https://www.robertcaskie.com/submissions daily 0.75 2024-06-18 https://www.robertcaskie.com/about daily 0.75 2025-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1586266832887-2ME0DOV80BGWA3U52TQ2/IMG_6926.jpg About - An expert and tenacious agent Before establishing Robert Caskie Ltd. I co-founded independent literary agency Caskie Mushens. Previously, I was a senior Literary Agent and COO at Peters Fraser + Dunlop for eight years, after working at MacFarlane Chard Associates and Capel & Land Ltd. https://www.robertcaskie.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-01-20 https://www.robertcaskie.com/ilana-fox daily 0.75 2020-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1587554901056-RHDF2TVDHJ4L7TXMIV5L/Ilana%2BFox%2B1.jpg Ilana Fox Ilana is a consultant who focuses on high-level marketing, revenue growth, and writing. Her current client list includes figures within national-level politics and international TV. She has worked for a range of national newspapers, including The Daily Mail, The Sun, The Mirror, The Telegraph, The Daily Record and The London Evening Standard. She's also written for - and been featured in - leading magazines and websites, such as Grazia, Stylist and Glamour. She has previously been a columnist for New Media Age magazine and Absolutely South East. In addition, Ilana has written four novels which were all published by Orion Books in the UK. Her last novel, The Glittering Art of Falling Apart, was shortlisted for the RONA Award for Best Contemporary Romantic Novel 2017. Ilana is currently writing her fifth novel, Little Prodigy. https://www.robertcaskie.com/borderirish daily 0.75 2020-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5a514d65019f01a2cb2be5/1562685656804-Q9GBRN0NAL6DVNVQUCHS/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg @BorderIrish @BorderIrish was a satirical Twitter account that tweeted in the voice of the Irish Border. Started in 2018, the account’s biography reads: "I am the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. I’m seamless & frictionless already, thanks. Bit scared of physical infrastructure." @BorderIrish had over 100,000 followers which included celebrities and political commentators such as Robert Peston and Alastair Campbell. HarperCollins published Border’s book, I am the Border, So I am, in October 2019. https://www.robertcaskie.com/jackie-clune daily 0.75 2020-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1587553322822-J5LXTOYXRHY4NEZUC6UN/Jackie%2BClune.jpg Jackie Clune Jackie Clune is a writer, actress and singer who lives in East London. She has published numerous features for the Guardian (Weekend magazine), the Daily Mail (Femail), the Mail on Sunday (YOU magazine), the Observer, the Independent, Red magazine, and the Scotsman. In 2012, she had her own column in Top Sante magazine. In 2004, she published her first novel Man of the Month Club (Quercus UK, Penguin USA) and in 2006 she published Extreme Motherhood - The Triplet Diaries (Macmillan, serialised in Femail). She has just written a monologue for BBC2 and is currently writing a one-woman play. She is a regular contributor to the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2, and has also contributed to various BBC Radio 4 arts programmes (Front Row, Woman's Hour, Loose Ends). She is the mother of four children, including a set of naturally conceived triplets, and her latest novel, I’m Just A Teenage Punchbag, will be published by Coronet in July 2020. She is currently working on a new book, due to be published in July 2021. https://www.robertcaskie.com/marc-hamer daily 0.75 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1586775873775-A6IKY31Q751H3KGA3IWS/Marc+Hamer1.jpeg Marc Hamer Marc Hamer grew up in the North of England. After spending over a year homeless as a young man, sleeping rough and wandering the countryside, he studied fine art in Manchester and Staffordshire and began to write poetry and short stories. He has worked in chicken shops, a steel works, the railway, art galleries, as a magazine editor, and taught art and creative writing to young prisoners before becoming a gardener which he has enjoyed being now for many years. Marc has been published in a variety of journals. He has lived with his wife in Wales for over thirty years. Marc’s memoir How to Catch a Mole was published in the UK by Harvill Secker on 4th April 2019, and to date has been acquired by 12 other countries worldwide. Recently, How to Catch a Mole was chosen by IndieNext in the US as one of its Autumn Picks. His second book, Seed to Dust, was published in January 2021, and was shortlisted in August 2021 for the Wainright Nature Writing Prize. His latest book, Spring Rain, was published by Harvill Secker as a hardback in February 2023 and in paperback in February 2024. It is published simultaneously in North America by Greystone Books. https://www.robertcaskie.com/michael-cashman daily 0.75 2021-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1586018544769-9OB6MF13Y6NT7928I2QQ/Michael+Cashman.jpg Michael Cashman Michael was born in the East End of London and through mishap and luck went on to star in Oliver at the age of 12 in London’s West End. He left full time education soon after. His successful career in films and television lead him on to become infamous as the man who delivered the first gay kiss on British television. While starring in EastEnders for three years as Colin, he took up the tabloid and right-wing challenges in the Thatcher years and campaigned against the stigma of AIDS and HIV, and the anti-lesbian and gay law section 28. He became founder and chair of the LGBT equality group Stonewall. Michael’s love of acting gave way to his pursuit of equality and Civil Liberties and he was elected to the European Parliament, as well as the Labour Party National Executive, where he achieved many notable successes. He stepped down from elected politics in 2014, was awarded the CBE, became Labour’s LGBT Global envoy and was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Cashman of Limehouse in 2014, where he still champions and defends equality in the UK and beyond. His partner and husband of 31 years died four days before he entered the House of Lords. Michael Cashman’s memoir, One of Them, recounts his life working on EastEnders to his days in Parliament, and finding love in between. One of Them was published by Bloomsbury in February 2020. It was shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize in May 2021. Awards include: Special service Award from the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, Honorary Doctorate from Staffordshire University: Commander of British Empire (CBE). Lifetime Achievement Award, European Diversity Awards, Pink News Awards 2014, Stonewall Politician of the Year 2014, Honorary Freedom of the City of London 2016, Honorary Life Membership from British Equity 2017. https://www.robertcaskie.com/paul-behrens daily 0.75 2020-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1587553058042-C2C1MXUHO1091ZSIDVMF/paul_behrens_02.jpg Paul Behrens Paul Behrens is an Assistant Professor in Energy and Environmental Change at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He completed his PhD in physics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His work on climate change has appeared in leading scientific journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Energy. His work on science communication has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, and has been featured on the BBC. The Indigo Press published his debut book The Best of Times, The Worst of Times in September 2020. Paul uses tone, structure and content to perfectly and seamlessly blend science and accessibility to explore the big issues of The Day - population, health, energy, food, climate change and economics. He challenges readers to create a better future for themselves and the Earth they live on. https://www.robertcaskie.com/eddie-mair daily 0.75 2020-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1587556095352-WJY71DXY1ARI44PR6259/eddiemair.jpg Eddie Mair Eddie Mair is, by his own account, one of Britain’s most beloved broadcasters. Born in Dundee, Scotland, he has worked in radio all his adult life. From the foothills of commercial radio in his hometown, through the sunlit uplands of the BBC in Scotland, he has reached the peaks of his profession, with BBC network radio in London. In addition, he’s appeared on most of the BBC’s TV channels, including ones that are no longer on TV. He witnessed the handover of Hong Kong and once asked Arnold Schwarzenegger a question –though he takes no responsibility for either. For nearly twenty years he has been at the helm of Radio 4’s PM: a nightly news round-up that means Eddie works for just one hour a day, giving him plenty time to knock together these diaries. Eddie’s other work, as a humanitarian and tireless, secret worker for charity is not mentioned here. His diaries, titled A Good Face For Radio, were published by Little Brown in November 2017. Robert Caskie manages Eddie Mair’s literary career in association with Anita Land Ltd. https://www.robertcaskie.com/carla-buzasi daily 0.75 2020-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1587552534997-CK57SBTJM50R1CTNZII4/Carla%2BBuzasi_002.jpg Carla Buzasi An award-winning writer and journalist, Carla was the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post in the UK, bringing the global news powerhouse to British shores in the summer of 2011. During her time with HuffPost, she was twice named Editor of the Year at the Online Media Awards, and Media Innovator of the Year at the British Media Awards. She has also been included in Management Today’s annual 35 Under 35 list and The Drum’s Top 50 Female Innovators. Specialising in opinion journalism, women's rights, fashion, travel and consumer behaviours, she has also held senior roles at Marie Claire and within Condé Nast's digital division. In 2015, she left traditional media behind to take up a new role at Global Chief Content Officer at the world’s largest trend forecasting company, WGSN, and now spends a significant portion of her life, suitcase in hand, travelling between their worldwide offices. Instead of reporting on the here and now, today she is focused on predicting how we’ll behave, eat, live, dress and think in tomorrow’s world. When on dry land, she has popped up on Newsnight, the Today programme and Sky News, and is a regular contributor to Channel 4’s What Britain Buys series. While she might help mega brands predict their own future trends, she still takes hours deciding what to wear each morning. https://www.robertcaskie.com/nana-darkoa-sekyiamah daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1586348003354-MHZS69F2HQ5HEJ6XK00D/Nana+Darkoa+Sekyiamah+1.jpg Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah In 2009, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah co-founded the award winning blog, Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women to create a safe space for African women to chat openly, honestly and safely about sex, sexualities and relationships. Nana’s writing and content production focuses on African feminism, gender and sexuality. She has been published widely by media platforms including The Guardian, and Open Democracy. She is also a regular vlogger for Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcaster. Her short stories can be found in, It Wasn’t Exactly Love, a collection published by Farafina, and The Pot and Other Stories, published by FEMRITE. Her creative non-fiction book, SEX LIVES OF AFRICAN WOMEN, documents the sexual experiences of diverse African women from the continent to its global diaspora. It was published by Dialogue books as a lead title in July 2021 and was both an Economist Book of the Year 2021 and a Dorothy Koomson Book of the Year. It is published in the US by Atria Books. It has been optioned by award-winning actress Uzo Aduba’s new production company, Meyon Media, in partnership with CBS Studios. Uzo’s credits include ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, MRS AMERICA, IN TREATMENT. It will also be developed by Uzo and Dan DeNicola – who previously worked for Hulu, working on shows such as NORMAL PEOPLE, THE HANDMAID’S TALE, and more recently, CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS and the latest season of WU-TANG: AN AMERICAN SAGA. The plan is to develop this as a potential returning series. Nana’s second book, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT SEX, was published by DIalogue Books (UK) and Astra House (US) in 2025. Her latest, IN SEARCH OF SEXUAL FREEDOM, is published by John Murray in March 2026. Find Nana on Instagram https://www.robertcaskie.com/kate-monro daily 0.75 2020-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1587585857231-XZBBA9IZDXKLLNXX6JMU/Kate%2BMonro.jpg Kate Monro Her twitter feed describes her as nosy as f**k. A useful quality given Kate’s first book, Losing It: How We Popped Our Cherry Over The Last 80 Years (Icon Books), was the result of conversations with people of all ages about their loss of virginity. It later became a play in London’s Covent Garden. Kate has written about sexuality, masculinity and relationships for The Guardian & The Independent. She has been the Writer in Residence at The Royal Chelsea Hospital, collating wartime experiences from its famous military residents. She also conducts a flippant ongoing investigation into modern masculinity via the Big Guy Small Dog Blog. Kate has used her interviewing powers to create content for Pret a Manger and consulted for Durex, Smile Makers, Discovery Channel and Tunstall Healthcare on a variety of subjects including sex, food, gender, old age and curiosity. https://www.robertcaskie.com/libby-page daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1587586365672-PBISLNHTR5V9UHWD248E/Libby%2BPage%2Bauthor%2Bpic%2B3%2Bcredit%2BNatalie%2BDawkins.jpg Libby Page Libby Page previously worked in marketing, moonlighting as a writer. She graduated from The London College of Fashion with a BA in Fashion Journalism before going on to work as a journalist at The Guardian. Libby has been a leading campaigner for fairer internships and has spoken on TV and in parliament in support of fair pay for interns. Libby has been writing from an early age and when she was 16 she wrote an illustrated book called Love Pink to raise money for Breast Cancer Care. After writing, her second passion is outdoor swimming. Libby lives in London where she enjoys finding new swimming spots and pockets of community within the city. The Lido, her first novel, was pre-empted within 24 hours of submission for six figures in the UK, and pre-empted for six figures in the US. It was published by Orion UK in April 2018 and Simon & Schuster US in July 2018, and was published in over 23 territories around the world. The Lido entered the Sunday Times Bestseller list after just three days on sale and remained there for 5 consecutive weeks, peaking at number 4. Her second novel, The 24 Hour Cafe, was published by Orion UK in January 2020. Her third novel, The Island Home, was published in June 2021. Libby’s fourth book, The Vintage Shop of Second Chances, was published by Orion in February 2023. Her sequel to The Lido, The Lifeline, was published by Orion in April 2024. Libby’s next book, This Book Made Me Think Of You, was published by Viking in the UK and Berkley in North America in early 2026, and - to date - has been sold in another twelve languages. Find Libby on instagram. https://www.robertcaskie.com/margaret-reynolds daily 0.75 2023-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1591008463138-0XUHB0SK4F8QL28MAO5R/Peggy%2525202.jpg Margaret Reynolds Margaret Reynolds is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London. Her Ohio University Press edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh won the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. She is the author of a collection Victorian Women Poets (with Angela Leighton) and The Sappho Companion (nominated for the LAMBDA Literary Award for Biography) and The Sappho History on the reception of the classical fragments. She is the presenter of “Adventures in Poetry” (BBC Radio 4), a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge and a Trustee of the Foundling Museum. Margaret’s memoir, The Wild Track, is a meditation on on adoption, and what makes a woman want to become a mother, told through the prism of her experience in attempting to adopt a child, was published by Doubleday in February 2021. https://www.robertcaskie.com/winnie-m-li daily 0.75 2025-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1587555840381-9QPZNKNQ6G4XJB6WEO8A/Winnie%2BLi.jpg Winnie M Li Winnie M Li is an author and activist, who has worked in the creative industry over three continents. Taiwanese-American and raised in New Jersey, Winnie studied Folklore and Mythology at Harvard, and later Irish Literature as a George Mitchell Scholar. Since then, she has written for travel guidebooks, produced independent feature films, programmed for film festivals, and developed eco-tourism projects. After earning an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, she now writes across a range of media, including fiction, theatre, journalism, and memoir. Her debut novel, Dark Chapter, won The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize in 2017, was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and was shortlisted for The Author’s Club Best First Novel Award. Translation rights for this novel have sold in nine territories. Winnie is also Co-Founder of the Clear Lines Festival, the UK’s first-ever festival addressing sexual assault and consent through the arts and discussion. Her PhD research at the London School of Economics explores the media engagement by rape survivors as a form of activism. Winnie has appeared in The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, The Times, The Independent, The LA Review of Books, The Chicago Tribune, The Irish Times, BBC World News, Sky News, Channel 4, and BBC Woman’s Hour, among other media outlets. Winnie’s Complicit, was published by Orion in June 2022. Shining a spotlight on misogyny and abuse in the film industry, it delivers a slow-burning tale of a female former actor once on the cusp of stardom and the very real horrors women experience in the world built by and for powerful men. In August 2025, Orion published Winnie’s latest book, What We Left Unsaid, an emotive and eye-opening exploration of family, race, growing up, and what it means to be American. https://www.robertcaskie.com/trish-halpin daily 0.75 2020-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1587559123521-00PH9L8RKUZDMQWM64SG/trish%2Bhalpin.jpg Trish Halpin Trish is an award-winning Editor in Chief, content strategist and coach with more than 20 years of experience at the helm of three of the UK’s most iconic women’s glossy magazines: Marie Claire, In Style and Red. Commissioning content across homes, interiors, food, fashion and beauty, along with writing travel stories, celebrity interviews and opinion pieces led to Trish becoming a three-times winner of the British Society of Magazine Editors’ Award. Her greatest passion as a journalist though, has been telling women’s stories, from the remarkable journey of a Syrian refugee mother to the genius of an upcoming tech entrepreneur, to the life behind the catwalk of a fashion designer. She has put her motto ‘stay curious’ to good use and is delighted to have built a career in which it has paid to be nosy. Trish co-hosts the podcast Postcards from Midlife, which she devised, writes and presents with fellow editor Lorraine Candy. She also writes for The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail and Sunday Times Style, and is a patron of children’s charity Rainbow Trust. https://www.robertcaskie.com/stephanie-rafanelli daily 0.75 2024-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/cdbc1026-edbe-40eb-88dd-2d39a43693a4/stefanie+rafanelli.jpg Stephanie Rafanelli Stephanie Rafanelli is a writer, editor and journalist who has been nominated for both a British Press Award and a Royal Television Society Award for documentary direction. She is currently based between Los Angeles, London and Tuscany. The former features director of British Harper’s Bazaar, Stephanie has also worked for The Guardian, Telegraph magazine, Saturday Times magazine, Mr Porter, Porter, Times Luxx, Observer magazine, The Evening Standard, ES magazine, Telegraph Ultratravel, The Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine, Telegraph Culture, The Financial Times, Elle, Red, Conde Nast Traveller, Elle Decoration, Departures and High Life. She specialises in in-depth long-form interviews with actors, artists, musicians, directors and writers and interesting characters from all walks of life. Her interviewees have included Al Pacino, Jodie Foster, Bjork, Dolce & Gabbana, Sarah Lucas, Cate Blanchett, Ryan Gosling, Cara Delevingne, Julianne Moore, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Sir Ian McKellen, Marion Cotillard, Jared Leto, Ewan McGregor, Sam Smith, Jenny Saville, Salma Hayek and Kiki Smith. Stephanie was nominated for Interviewer of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2016. She also writes features on serious issues (especially those relating to women), travel, reportage, and opinion pieces. She is currently writing her first novel. https://www.robertcaskie.com/emma-barnett daily 0.75 2025-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1587551668969-D14ZJUTLRCQ2EQTS50E6/Emma%2BBarnett.jpg Emma Barnett Emma Barnett is an award-winning broadcaster and journalist. Named Interviewer of the Year at the British Journalism awards and twice speech radio presenter by the Radio Academy, she is a presenter on BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today Programme and hosts TV interviews and documentaries across the BBC. Previously she was the chief presenter of Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4, and has presented Newsnight, ITV’s After the News and BBC1’s Sunday Live as well as BBC Radio 5 Live's mid-morning weekday programme. Emma also presented a global interviews programme on Bloomberg TV - with high profile one-to-one interviews with international figures from across the world of politics, sport, culture, entertainment and technology. Emma pens a bi-weekly newspaper column for the I Paper and was previously a columnist for the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph - where she was also the Women’s Editor. After the birth of her first child, she wrote the book 'Period. It's About Bloody Time’. Her second book, ‘Maternity Leave’ was published by Fig Tree in March 2025. Emma grew up in Manchester and now lives in London with her family. https://www.robertcaskie.com/lorraine-candy daily 0.75 2024-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1586016643943-PWP4J6DJTIF1BTF3V0B2/Lorraine+Candy.JPG Lorraine Candy Lorraine Candy was until recently the the Luxury Content Director for The Sunday Times and Editor in Chief of Style magazine. Previously, she was Editor in Chief of ELLE magazine for 12 years. During her career as a journalist and editor, she has worked as Editor in Chief at Cosmopolitan and Features Director of The Times newspaper. She wrote a playful weekly parenting column for The Daily Mail’s Femail for six years called “I don’t know how I do It” and has written for The Times, The Guardian, The Mail, The Radio Times, Good Housekeeping and The Sunday Times, as well as regularly interviewing celebrities for covers for the award-winning ELLE magazine. She regularly writes on her adventures in fitness, being a mum of four, fashion, and feminism. She has a large social media following: Twitter 105k, Instagram 25k, Facebook 10k and regularly gives talks on a variety of subjects of interest to women. She has presented at the Mumsnet Conference and hosted many ELLE events interviewing women live on stage, including Melinda Gates. Lorraine appears regularly on TV and radio including Newsnight, the BBC’s Nine O’Clock news, This Morning and Anne Robinson’s Secret Britain as well as Radio Four’s Today programme and Woman’s Hour. She co-hosts the podcast Postcards from Midlife, which she devised, writes and presents with Trish Halpin. She is on the media advisory board of the children's charity Theirworld and also on the membership council of the Tate art galleries. 1001 THINGS ONLY MOTHERS OF TEENAGE GIRLS KNOW: THE MANUAL was published in June 2021 by Fourth Estate. It is part guide, part memoir and part love-letter to Lorraine’s two teenage daughters, and a candid, helpful and hilarious guide to the many unexpected challenges of mothering teenage girls. It was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller for several weeks. Her memoir WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME was published by Fourth Estate in May 2023, and was released in paperback in February 2024. https://www.robertcaskie.com/tanya-shadrick daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/4754c706-9889-42ba-a9f8-5879de97edfd/2026+Tanya+Shadrick+Author+Photo.jpg Tanya Shadrick Tanya Shadrick is a British writer whose work explores the tension between restraint and risk: how we negotiate duty and desire. “Robust, declarative even, but there is also something disquieting… for Shadrick, to be a woman, an artist and a mother still seems something not quite of this world.” TLS Tanya embarked as a writer after forty with THE WILD PATIENCE SCROLLS – a mile of writing composed pen on paper beside England’s oldest outdoor pool. Conducted across two years, it placed her in direct encounter with many thousands of people: a radical extension of her previous private practice as a hospice life-story scribe and a deliberate experiment in bringing literary and existential conversations into the local everyday. Following this project, Tanya was welcomed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and as writer-in-residence at the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland, the National Trust artists’ cabin at Bucks Mills, and Virginia Woolf’s Monk’s House. Her debut book THE CURE FOR SLEEP (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) is a memoir that explores the limits of personal freedom within small-town life: what it takes and costs to expand the possible. It was a Waterstones and Evening Standard non-fiction book of the year. Since 2024, she has returned to working privately, after completing an intensive decade-long period of public-facing projects. She is currently at work on a novel. She has lived for the last thirty years in Lewes on the Sussex Downs. Find Tanya on Instagram https://www.robertcaskie.com/sir-trevor-mcdonald daily 0.75 2024-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1586021266625-FUOO3EQK5GF3S2AKL8PF/Trevor+McDonald.JPG Sir Trevor McDonald Born in Trinidad in 1939, Sir Trevor McDonald has worked for major news channels including ITN, Channel 4 and the BBC. He became the presenter of “News at Ten” in 1992, and was awarded an OBE the same year, with a knighthood following in 1999. His autobiography, An Improbable Life, takes readers through pivotal moments in history alongside Sir Trevor’s personal reflections and stories. The book includes Sir Trevor’s trip to South Africa where he conducted the first British television interview with Nelson Mandela, his reflections on the Windrush generation, experiencing Barack Obama’s inauguration as US President, as well as his meetings with Colonel Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and his firsthand experiences of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Death Row in an American prison, among other events. An Improbable Life was published in October 2019 by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, with Sir Trevor narrating the audio book. His latest book, On Cricket, was published by Dialogue Books in October 2024. Robert Caskie manages Sir Trevor's literary career in association with Anita Land Ltd. https://www.robertcaskie.com/manda-scott daily 0.75 2024-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1586433381546-9UFHB00II6XY602OS5X1/Manda+Scott.jpg Manda Scott Shortlisted for an Orange prize and nominated for an Edgar, Manda Scott’s writing career spans two decades and a multitude of genres, always with powerful, complex warrior women at their heart. Originally a contemporary thriller writer, she progressed to historical fiction with the international best-selling Boudica: Dreaming series and the Rome series of classical spy thrillers. In addition, she also writes for television, radio, broadsheets and blogs. Her novels Into the Fire and A Treachery of Spies join in interwoven historical and contemporary timelines. A Treachery of Spies was published by Bantam Press in the UK in August 2018. It was long-listed for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Award by public nomination. It won the 2019 McIlvanney Prize which recognises excellence in Scottish crime writing. Her latest novel, Any Human Power, was published by September Publishing in May 2024. https://www.robertcaskie.com/ram-venkatesan daily 0.75 2020-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1587591008415-D70Y65WAKCY9TQFQXNSL/Ram.jpg Ram Venkatesan Ram is an author and comic book writer from Mumbai, India. He makes up stories, sometimes they have pictures. His short stories and comics have appeared in several anthologies and e-zines. In 2012 he began writing Aghori which is now an award nominated ongoing comic series in India. A graduate of the City University of London’s Creative Writing MA, he has since created a critically acclaimed graphic novel called Black Mumba and writes the fantasy, adventure series Brigands. 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and especially America's - most controversial and fascinating lifestyles. In a career spanning nearly two decades, he has interrogated the engrained criminals at San Quentin prison; lived with the extreme believers of the Westboro Baptist Church; gambled with the high-rollers at a Las Vegas mega-casino, and stalked game with trophy hunters on South Africa's wild animal farms. Louis started out as a correspondent on Michael Moore's TV Nation before being signed up by the BBC to make his own series, Weird Weekends, about unusual American subcultures. Since then, he has immersed himself in numerous documentaries, spending more than a month in Miami for a two-part series about the inmates at one of America's most violent jails, revisiting his 1997 documentary about the world of male performers in Twilight of the Porn Stars and visiting one of the best schools in America for autism in Extreme Love: Autism. Louis' feature-length documentary My Scientology Movie was released in the UK in Autumn 2016 and was the highest-grossing theatrical release documentary that year. Louis’s programmes have won numerous accolades including two Baftas and an RTS award and are shown all over the world. He also writes for print publications. His 2005 travel book about some of his adventures, THE CALL OF THE WEIRD was re-published by Pan Books in March 2018 with additional material. In 2020 he launched a new podcast, Grounded, where he used lockdown to track down some of the people he's been longing to talk to. In September 2019 Pan Macmillan published the first of a two book deal, GOTTA GET THEROUX THIS. It was described by Louis as a “forensic and thoughtful appraisal of my life and career”. It immediately became a Sunday Times Bestseller in hardback and then also in paperback in August 2020. It has sold over 180,000 copies and is nominated for Audiobook of the Year at The British Book Awards 2020. Bolinda announced in August 2020 that they had acquired exclusive US and Canada rights in the audiobook. His next book, THEROUX THE KEYHOLE, was published in November 2021 by Pan Macmillan. Unable to escape to the porn sets, prisons and maximum-security psychiatric units that are his usual journalistic beat, he began reporting on a location even more full of pitfalls and hostile objects of inquiry: his own home during a pandemic. Robert Caskie manages Louis Theroux's literary career. 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I am a literary agent with over twenty years of experience. I represent a broad range of writers of fiction and non-fiction, many of whom are Sunday Times bestsellers. Passionate about and committed to all my authors, I support them in every way to achieve success. I’m always interested in hearing from writers seeking representation, so feel free to get in touch. https://www.robertcaskie.com/sarah-winman daily 0.75 2022-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1588076882418-A7XP9E2W37LJRMZG2PMQ/Sarah%2BWinman%2B-%2Bcredit%2BPatricia%2BNiven.jpg Sarah Winman Sarah Winman was an actress, working in theatre in her twenties and early thirties but by 1992 she decided that she wanted to write a novel. Later in 2008, while taking an ‘Exploring Fiction’ course at City Lit, Sarah realised she was already writing what went on to become her highly acclaimed debut, When God Was A Rabbit, a story about childhood, eccentricity, loss and love. This novel was an international bestseller which won Sarah multiple awards, including New Writer of the Year in the Galaxy National Book Awards and the Newton First Book Award. Sarah's second novel, A Year of Marvellous Ways, is about the relationship between eighty-nine year old Marvellous, who lives alone in a remote Cornish creek, and Drake, a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous' creek, broken in body and spirit, the old woman comes to his aid. This novel was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. In her her book, Tin Man, Sarah explored the triangular relationship of Ellis and Michael, who have been inseparable since boyhood, and Annie, who walks into their lives, changing nothing and everything. It was published in the UK by Tinder Press in March 2017 and in the US by G.P. Putnam's Sons in May 2018. Tin Man was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2017 and it has been longlisted for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence in the US. In August 2020 it was announced that film rights had been bought by Hillbilly Films. Her most recent novel, Still Life, was published by 4th Estate in the UK in June 2021 to great critical acclaim. Amongst other notable awards, it was selected as the Dymocks Book of the Year 2021, the winner of the 2021 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction, Good Morning America’s November 2021 Book Club choice, the inaugural Inwords Literary Award, and for the Autumn 2021 series of BBC Book Club with Sara Cox. 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She is the founder and co-facilitator of Irish deliberative democracy platform The Civic Initiative, Director of the Northern Ireland Emerging Leaders Program at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York, and a transatlantic adviser on peace processes and civic innovation. Emma is the former women's leadership coordinator at the National Women's Council of Ireland and led in the creation of the first All-island Women’s Forum, serving as Chair and Facilitator (2021-23). As a journalist, she writes for several publications including the Guardian, Irish Times, Irish News, Journal.ie, Euronews and Byline Times. In 2023, she hosted a limited podcast series on the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement titled 'Lost in Implementation'. Emma regularly tours US universities to lecture on issues related to global security, peace processes, and civic engagement strategies and has shared the stage at global conferences with world leaders as a key figure in a new generation of peacebuilders. https://www.robertcaskie.com/wendy-mitchell daily 0.75 2024-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1594983942222-C7PPR2Q5OY3A0OG60Q1T/wendy%2Bmitchell.jpg Wendy Mitchell Wendy was diagnosed with young onset dementia on the 31st July 2014 at the age of 58 years young - she noted 'I might not have much of a short term memory but that’s one date I’ll never forget!' She soon retired from the NHS, having worked as a non-clinical team leader for twenty years. Post diagnosis, she was shocked by the lack of awareness of dementia, both in the community and clinical world, so travelled around the country raising awareness and encouraging others to embrace her passion for research. Wendy sadly died in February 2024. She had two daughters and lived happily in Yorkshire. She was the proud author of the Sunday Times bestseller Somebody I Used to Know, which she would never have thought possible when she was diagnosed. Her second book, What I Wish People Knew About Dementia, was published in January 2022 by Bloomsbury, and immediately became another Sunday Times bestseller, as did the paperback edition in March 2023. Wendy’s final book, One Last Thing, was published by Bloomsbury in June 2023. https://www.robertcaskie.com/elizabeth-boyle daily 0.75 2023-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1594984276183-N8ARL76E7PHYKYI9W6PL/elizabeth%2Bboyle.jpg Elizabeth Boyle Elizabeth Boyle is a historian and lecturer who teaches at Maynooth University in Ireland. She has previously held a prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Marie Curie Fellowship at University College Cork. She was awarded her PhD from Cambridge in 2008. Her academic research has been published in international journals such as History of Religions, The Journal of Medieval Latin, Anglo-Saxon England, and Medium Ævum. Elizabeth’s area of specialism is the history, culture and literature of pre-modern Europe. Her research focuses on Ireland, and she has also published on early medieval Wales and England. She is currently writing a book which seeks to introduce medieval literature to a wider audience, demonstrating its enduring power and resonances in the present day. She has lectured extensively across Europe and the United States, and in 2020-21 will be an Academic Visitor in the School of English at the University of Nottingham, UK. She loves music – especially extreme metal and experimental noise – and has a teenage daughter. FIERCE APPETITES, Elizabeth’s captivating and original book, was published by Penguin in March 2022, and became an immediate top ten bestseller in Ireland. It was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2022. “A book of blazing honesty that allows all the gorgeous complexity of the past into our messy present to remind us we've always been like this” -- Max Porter ”Boyle has the skill to move us between the raw and the refined, the mind and the body, the past and the present, the mundane and the marvellous without ever losing control of her dark materials” -- Fintan O'Toole ”I just love it” -- John Connolly ”An eloquent plea for the value of curiosity and the life of the mind, standing up the robustness of scholarship against the frailty of individuals, the resilience of myth against brittle daily preoccupations. It's an agile story, irreverent, capacious and constantly surprising: like nothing else you will read” -- Hilary Mantel ”Pure nectar for the imagination, and it's my book of 2022” -- Clodagh Finn, Irish Examiner https://www.robertcaskie.com/tony-king daily 0.75 2024-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1615163986810-XG8RXEL6BE7MTE9NZFZG/tony+king.jpg Tony King - Tony King started his 61 year career in the music business in 1958 at Decca, where he travelled every day from his hometown of Eastbourne. At 19 he became the youngest promotion man of the time, and looked after visiting American artists such as Roy Orbison, Brenda Lee, The Ronettes and their Svengali producer Phil Spector. When he met The Beatles they struck up a friendship over their mutual love of American music. After setting up Immediate Records with the Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham, Tony was approached by Sir George Martin’s independent production company to do promotion for his artists and others in the company produced by his co partners - among them Cilla Black, The Hollies, Manfred Man, Tom Jones, and The Beatles. In 1970 Tony joined Apple as general manager, which gave him his first dream ticket to New York. In 1973 he went to America again for Apple, this time to Los Angeles to pull together the album Ringo for Ringo Starr. It went to no 1 and he was asked to stay on to do the same thing for John Lennon’s upcoming album Mind Games. For the next two or three years he worked with John and Ringo out of the Capitol Tower in Hollywood. When Apple closed in 1976 Tony became Executive VP of Elton John’s label, Rocket, working with Neil Sedaka, Kiki Dee and, of course, Elton. In 1978 Rocket moved to New York. Tony soon became Head of Club Promotion for RCA, which was followed two years later by a move to Creative Director for RCA. In 1984 Mick Jagger was looking for someone to pull together his first solo album, She’s The Boss. He took the job that was offered and stayed with Mick, and subsequently The Stones, for the next 27 years. In 2011 he joined Elton John’s team, initially working on his Las Vegas show, The Million Dollar Piano, and then working on his albums and current World Tour. His memoir, THE TASTEMAKER, was published by Faber in February 2023 in hardback and February 2024 in paperback. https://www.robertcaskie.com/iqbal-hussain daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1619644834465-HO6XU1REB7Q27EL6ZY96/Iqbal_Hussain.JPG Iqbal Hussain - Iqbal Hussain was born into a large, working-class Muslim family in Lancashire. Having studied Mathematics at a small Welsh university, far removed from the cobbled streets of his childhood, he chose to earn a living with words. He worked as a journalist for many years, for publications ranging from The Guardian’s Education Supplement to The Young Telegraph. Iqbal is an alumni of the inaugural London Writers' Awards 2018, launched by the London writing agency Spread the Word. His short story Home from Home won Gold in the Creative Future Writers’ Awards 2019. In 2020, he was one of fifteen writers from under-represented backgrounds to be included in the anthology Mainstream, published by Inkandescent, with his Pakistani-set ghost story The Reluctant Bride. In April 2021, Iqbal was one of seven writers selected for the Megaphone mentoring scheme for writers of children’s and young adult fiction. Iqbal’s first adult novel, Northern Boy, a coming-of-age story about what it feels like to be a “butterfly among the bricks” was published by Unbound in June 2024. His first children’s book, The Night I Borrowed Time, will be published by Puffin in 2026. In 2025 Iqbal was named winner of The World of Interiors x Montblanc Writing Competition 2025 for his essay When The Streets Fell Silent. Iqbal’s debut children’s novel - The Night I Borrowed Time - was published by Puffin in January 2026, and was selected as Waterstones’ Children’s Book of the Month. Find Iqbal on Instagram https://www.robertcaskie.com/alice-lascelles daily 0.75 2025-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1621940158406-4LSMN65YGCFF7AAESTAP/Alice+Lascelles+%28credit+Wallace+Wainhouse%29+7.jpg Alice Lascelles - Alice Lascelles is an award-winning drinks journalist, author and presenter. She writes a popular column in the Financial Times about wine, spirits and bar culture, and can often be found talking about drinks on BBC Radio 4 and on the TV. Her articles and columns have also appeared in The Times, The Economist, Wired, Monocle, Vice, Food & Wine and many trade and specialist publications including the Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails. She is the author of two (soon to be three) books. Her guide for the home bartender, The Cocktail Edit: Everything You Need to Know About How to Make All The Drinks That Matter (Quadrille 2022) was named a Book of the Year by the Financial Times, The Times, The Telegraph and Esquire. Her third, The Martini: The Ultimate Guide to a Cocktail Icon was published by Quadrille in September 2024. In 2025 The Martini was shortlisted for the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards and the Spirited Awards. Alice is an expert on the production and provenance of drinks, but she also loves the stories that go with them. Her subject have ranged from the rise of Japanese whisky and the science of bubbles, to profiles of Syria’s only working winery and the bar scene that helped regenerate New Orleans post-Katrina. She enjoys public speaking and has given talks and lead tastings at international events including FT Weekend Live at Washington DC’s Kennedy Centre, the Speyside Whisky Festival and the London Literature Festival on the Southbank. She is a former winner of Fortnum & Mason Drinks Writer of the Year and IWSC Spirits Communicator of the Year. She has also been made a Keeper of the Quaich and a Chevalier of the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne in recognition of her work. Before she became a journalist, Alice studied English at Cambridge and spent several years working in the arts. She's also musician with a White Stripes tour and several releases - including an album under the name Alice Gun – under her belt. Her other great loves are gardening, dogs and fell walking in the Lake District. She lives in London with her husband and two sons. https://www.robertcaskie.com/lauren-langlan-and-tom-mitchell daily 0.75 2021-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1623713673463-IAR2BR4OD1XPBQAF2NTJ/lauren+and+tom.jpg Lauren Langlan and Tom Mitchell - Tom Mitchell and Lauren Langman are world-renowned dog trainers. They have used their exceptional combined experience to create the absoluteDogs Training Academy as well as the Naughty But Nice and Pro Dog Trainer courses. Tom is a veterinarian, behaviourist, dog trainer, and author. He brings science and passion to his work, which supports dogs of all abilities and temperaments to have focus, self control and joy. Lauren is a dog trainer, author, and world level competitor in the fast-paced dog sport of agility. Lauren also owns and runs a highly successful dog training centre of excellence in Devon, UK. Tom and Lauren believe that a positive playful approach using simple games can change a dog's life. Together, they bring years of experience and generously share their knowledge to help more and more dog owners overcome their struggles and turn them into strengths. https://www.robertcaskie.com/clover-stroud daily 0.75 2024-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1625608083332-ODMBA8IFTIQ2MEZQFNW0/CLOVER+STROUD+AGENT Clover Stroud - “A fearless explorer of the human heart, and a writer of incomparable grace and passion,” is how Elizabeth Gilbert describes the work of Clover Stroud, citing Clover’s first memoir, THE WILD OTHER as one of her top favourite books of all time. Clover writes about the way life feels, mining her own experiences to draw universal truths about what it means to be human. She never shies away from the big topics, and writes with startling honesty about life, death, sex, addiction, motherhood, nature, grief, ecstasy and suffering. She started her career as a journalist at 24, and since then has written regularly for all the major newspapers and publications, including The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, Vogue, Red, Harpers, Elle, and she frequently appears on the radio or podcasts as a distinctive and singular voice. Her first memoir, THE WILD OTHER, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, and her second memoir, MY WILD AND SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her latest book, THE RED OF MY BLOOD, was published by Doubleday in March 2022, and also became a Sunday Times bestseller. Clover hosts a weekly author interview on her popular Instagram page @clover.stroud. She has five children, and before she was a writer, she was also a rodeo cowgirl. Clover has recently signed a three book deal with Doubleday. Her most recent, THE GIANT ON THE SKYLINE was published in May 2024. https://www.robertcaskie.com/claer-barrett daily 0.75 2023-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1659603265662-B0COTRAEDXIM2K7X398Z/Claer+007+%282%29.jpg Claer Barrett Claer Barrett is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster who aims to help everyone make the most of their money. An associate editor at the Financial Times, she presents the FT's weekly Money Clinic podcast, talking to listeners about their real-life financial dilemmas, and writes the Serious Money column in FT Weekend newspaper. A consumer and personal finance journalist for over 15 years, Claer's frank, no-frills approach to talking about money ensures she is a regular guest on TV and radio, including ITV's Lorraine, finance phone-ins on LBC and guest spots on BBC programmes including Watchdog, Rip Off Britain and You & Yours. Her short videos about money on social media @Claerb have won her an army of fans on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. "She is the kind of journalist who tells you things you don't know about money in ways that anyone can understand," was the verdict of the Wincott Award judges when she won their prestigious personal finance writer of the year award in 2018. Claer was recently named financial commentator of the year by Headline Money; the third time she has won this accolade. Slicing through the jargon of the financial world, Claer's hallmark is communicating key financial know-how in easy, practical steps - with a dollop of humour on the side. She is a regular on the after-dinner speaking circuit, and is a trustee of the FT-supported charity, the Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign. Robert Caskie manages Claer Barrett's literary career in association with Karen O'Donnell of Chartwell Speakers. Claer’s first book, What They Don’t Teach You About Money: Seven Habits that Unlock Financial Independence, was published in paperback on 16th March 2023 by Ebury Edge. Photo credit: FT/ Charlie Bibby https://www.robertcaskie.com/matson-taylor daily 0.75 2022-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1659907898778-4TZCROSU3133FHE1YMAQ/matson+taylor.jpg Matson Taylor Matson Taylor is a novelist and design historian. He studied at the Royal College of Art and has taught at museums and universities around the world. He has also worked on Camden Market, appeared in an Italian TV commercial, and been a pronunciation coach for Catalan opera singers. In 2016 he started writing his first novel, THE MISEDUCATION OF EVIE EPWORTH, inspired by his work at the V&A museum. The novel is about lost mothers, uncoping fathers, and muddled daughters; it’s also the story of when the ‘50s finally became the ‘60s in a small Yorkshire village, with the modern world arriving in all its pop-cultural glory. Published in April 2021 by Scribner UK, the book was chosen for both the Richard & Judy Bookclub and the BBC Radio 2 Bookclub, and went on to become a bestseller. His second book, ALL ABOUT EVIE, is a sequel, charting the messy end of the 1960s and the choppy beginnings of the 1970s. It’s a book about finding your own way of doing things, a book about letting go, and - most of all - a book about love. Big-hearted, uplifting, bittersweet and tender, the novel has been described as fizzing with wit and alive to the power of friendship in all its forms. ALL ABOUT EVIE was published in July 2022. Matson is now working on his third novel, which, like his first two, will be a funny book about serious things. https://www.robertcaskie.com/torsten-bell daily 0.75 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/3fa47d3f-a83c-4434-af8f-4745ceabf32c/torsten+bell+headshot.jpg Torsten Bell Torsten Bell is Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, an economic research charity working to raise the living standards of households on low to middle incomes. Prior to leading the Resolution Foundation, Torsten worked in HM Treasury, as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers during the financial crisis, and as Director of Policy for the Labour Party. He is an Honorary Professor at UCL and writes a weekly column in The Observer. His first book,Great Britain?, was published by Bodley Head in June 2024 and became an instant Sunday Times Bestseller. https://www.robertcaskie.com/gianfranco-chicco daily 0.75 2024-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/63497938-6178-43aa-b1fa-f6f35450abd4/Gianfranco+Chicco+-+June+2023+-+Photo+by+Lucy+Ranson_square.jpg Gianfranco Chicco Gianfranco Chicco is a London-based curator, marketing strategist, writer and a Japanophile working at the intersection of design, technology and craft. With a passion for storytelling and craftsmanship, he bridges the digital and physical worlds to create unique experiences that enrich and delight audiences, opening new perspectives on business and culture. Gian is the former Head of Content and Digital of the London Design Festival and London Design Biennale (2021-2023), two leading platforms that champion London as a global design capital and set the stage for world-leading contemporary design and design-led innovation, creativity and research. He was European Marketing Director of The Webby Awards and The Lovie Awards (2016-2018), and a key member in the curation and production of the World Business Forum (2003-2007), the Picnic Festival (2009-2010), Frontiers of Interaction (2010), and Social Media Week (2013-2016) among many others. Gian curates The Craftsman Newsletter and is working on a book about what we can learn from Japanese craftspeople to create a better way of living and working by bringing together the slow pace and depth of feeling of the physical world with the innovation and convenience of digital technology. Gian holds an Industrial Engineering degree from the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA) in Argentina, and an executive MBA from the Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Management in Italy. Originally from Argentina, he is also Italian and has lived in Buenos Aires, Milan, Tokyo, Amsterdam, and Madrid before moving to London in 2013. https://www.robertcaskie.com/nusrit-mehtab daily 0.75 2024-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/908b289e-a421-4c25-b6d2-402a77796456/Nusrit+Mehtab_3121.jpg Nusrit Mehtab Nusrit Mehtab is a former police officer, at one point the most senior female Asian officer in the Metropolitan Police. In 2017 Mehtab instigated an employment tribunal against them for racism and misogyny, and soon after left the police force after 30 years of service. She is now a lecturer in criminology and criminal justice at the University of East London and also mentors many young recruits and BAME officers. She hopes to change the force from the inside. Her book OFF THE BEAT was published by Penguin in Julne 2024. https://www.robertcaskie.com/paul-bench daily 0.75 2024-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/3145c997-b122-44ec-b42a-10ecb380bb33/IMG_7148.jpg Paul Bench - Dr Paul Bench is a lecturer in Historical and Cultural Studies. His central interest is investigating the intersection of visual cultures and queer histories. This research is interdisciplinary, taking in histories of art and photography, biography studies, fashion studies, material cultures research, queer theory and gender studies. Paul completed a PhD focused on three queer men in interwar Britain, in 2021. This followed an MA in The History and Culture of Fashion and his prior career as a fashion designer. Having published academic articles and communicating his research in conference settings, Paul is currently working on his book QUEER WAYS OF SEEING, which aims to bring his research to a wider audience. The forthcoming publication will offer new ways of understanding what we mean when we talk about ‘queer art’. 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These personal stories reveal a mind-blowing variety of sexualities, sex lives and relationships. Fascinating. -- Bernardine Evaristo A boundary-breaking, fascinating and deeply affirming set of accounts that emphasises the necessity of allowing African women to tell the stories of their sexuality on their own terms -- Otegha Uwagba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1655899783651-Q37HD0IBG58RGL59DXWK/51Bb6ARMkFL._SY291_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_QL40_ML2_.jpg News 2 - Winnie M Li’s timely thriller published June 2022 Shining a spotlight on misogyny and abuse in the film industry, COMPLICIT delivers a slow-burning tale of a female former actor once on the cusp of stardom and the very real horrors women experience in the world built by and for powerful men. 'Winnie's skill as a writer is to forge out of a familiar film story one that is beautifully unique. It haunted me when I was away from it. An emotionally complex story, it ripples with foreboding and tension. Utterly compulsive reading.' - Sarah Winman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1655899563289-6K6BXTC33DTXMGUP0H3L/keyhole+pbk.jpg News 2 - Louis Theroux’s covid memoir out in paperback Theroux the Keyhole is an honest and hilarious diary of a man attempting to navigate the perils of work and family life in Covid World. Why is his wife so intolerant of his obsession with Joe Wicks’s daily workouts? Can he reinvent himself as a podcast host? Why has the internet gone nuts for his old journalistic compadre Joe Exotic? And will his teenage sons ever see him as anything other than ‘cringe’? This is Louis at his insightful best, as he faces unforeseen new challenges and wonders why it took a pandemic for him to learn that what really matters in life is right in front of him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1653044289132-CCKL3XNLC8BJO67Q6MT6/FS5iUE4WUAEpXyy.jpg News 2 - Alice Lascelles selected as finalist for Guild of Food Writers 25th Anniversary Awards Alice has been shortlisted for the 2022 GFW Awards for for articles published in the Financial Times and Club Oenologique. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1652440615369-3BARTDYS9T89E8397CWQ/IBA+2022_Fiction4_InstaStories.png News 2 - Sarah Winman’s magnificent STILL LIFE shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2022 Sarah’s novel joins books from an extraordinarily strong group of writers in the 2022 Indie Book Awards shortlist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1648332344187-EA3EWWRNSFV473IGTMZT/pbks+march+2022+2.png News 2 - More bestseller success for Robert Caskie authors I’m delighted to share that Sarah Winman’s STILL LIFE is number 4 in the Sunday Times bestseller paperback fiction this week (which is it’s 3rd week in top 10) and THE RED OF MY BLOOD by Clover Stroud has entered at number 9 in the Sunday Times hardback non-fiction bestseller list. FIERCE APPETITES by Elizabeth Boyle is in its third week in the Irish Times top 10 at number 9. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1646910823291-5B41CYAOTTI1DHEBVJ25/clover+stroud.jpg News 2 - Clover Stroud’s ‘brutal, beautiful’ memoir published 'With brutal, beautiful honesty, Clover articulates how bereavement shocks and dislocates - and in all the pain, there's SO much life.' MARIAN KEYES A few weeks before Christmas, Clover's sister died of breast cancer, aged forty-six. Just days before, she had been given years to live. Her sudden death split Clover's life apart. The Red of My Blood charts Clover's fearless passage through the first year after her sister's death. It is a book about what life feels like when death interrupts it, and about bearing the unbearable and describing an experience that seems beyond words. Lyrical, hopeful, it is also about the magical way in which death and life exist so vividly beside one another, and the wonder of being human. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1646338860161-MESKXIJ69H1U8F4353N4/9781844885442.jpg News 2 - Elizabeth Boyle’s FIERCE APPETITES published 'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary Mantel FIERCE APPETITES is an exhilarating and deeply humane book. Not only does Elizabeth Boyle write dazzling accounts of ancient stories, familiar and obscure, from Ireland and further afield, but she uses her historical learning to grapple with the raw and urgent questions she faces, questions that have bedevilled people in every age. She writes on grief, addiction, family breakdown, the complexities of motherhood, love and sex, memory, class, education, travel (and staying put) with unflinching honesty, deep compassion and occasional dark humour. FIERCE APPETITES went straight to number 4 in the non-fiction paperback chart in Ireland 3 days after publication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1646341939873-5WB7K7GEJCVW82YWV5K6/pbks+march+2022.png News 2 - Three paperbacks from Robert Caskie authors published 3.3.22 Three wonderful books are published today in paperback. 'A gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spirits' Daily Mirror 'Jackie Clune's writing always make me roar with laughter' Nigella Lawson 'The mothering manual we all need' Claudia Winkleman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1643574624563-VZ72YP87B3MEUUDZQ2GL/WIWPNAD_Instagram_V1.jpg News 2 - New book from Wendy Mitchell hits the Sunday Times Bestseller List “Essential reading for those living with dementia, those who support them, professionals working in the field and any 'curious individual' . . . Her message for those given a dementia diagnosis is to never give up on themselves ― Sunday Times Magazine” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1643067949418-N3EZURVJWA03FXVZMTOX/9781474618076.jpg News 2 - Tanya Shadrick’s fable-like memoir published by W&N, 20 January 2022 On return from near-death, Tanya Shadrick vows to stop sleepwalking through life. To take more risks, like the characters in the fairy tales she loved as a small girl, before loss and fear had her retreat into routine and daydreams. Around the care of young children, she starts to play with the shape and scale of her days: to stray from the path, get lost in the woods, make bargains with strangers. As she moves beyond her respectable roles as worker, wife and mother in a small town, Tanya learns what it takes – and costs – to break the spell of longing for love, approval, safety, rescue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1643067621310-VMQ50QEKJC9MX8QMX18J/9781526634481.jpg News 2 - Wendy Mitchell’s second book published by Bloomsbury WHAT I WISH PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT DEMENTIA is a wise, practical and life affirming new book from Sunday Times Bestselling author Wendy Mitchell. The new title published by Bloomsbury on 20 January 2022 combines anecdotes, research and Wendy’s own brilliant wit and wisdom to tell readers exactly what she wishes they knew about dementia. When Wendy was diagnosed with young-onset dementia at the age of fifty-eight, her brain was overwhelmed with images of the last stages of the disease - those familiar tropes, shortcuts and clichés that we are fed by the media, or even our own health professionals. But her diagnosis far from represented the end of her life. Instead, it was the start of a very different one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1641771938724-R7TJ42YO6WD6WL35O3A5/519fVaCRdqL._SX318_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg News 2 - Marc Hamer’s SEED TO DUST out in paperback In this life-enhancing book Marc takes us month-by-month through his experiences both working in the garden and outside it, as the seasons' changes bring new plants and wildlife to the fore and lead him to reflect on his past and future. Through his peaceful and meditative prose we learn about gardening folklore and wisdom, the joys of manual labour, his path from solitary homelessness to family contentment and the cycle of growth and decay that runs through both the garden's life and our own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1641771742983-U5AWEX8B4OXSJIYMG2DO/41Hawp-9sZL._SX326_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg News 2 - Pragya Agarwal’s (M)OTHERHOOD published in paperback "Riveting. Agarwal writes with searing honesty and tenderness about the joys and agonies of becoming a mother, of trying and failing to conceive again, and then of pursuing a route to motherhood that's widely seen as taboo . . . Agarwal writes beautifully about her own complicated experience" ― Guardian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1638134656551-A48G0HWU2VIQVDNQYM2Z/BOTY_Winner_BlogThumb.jpg News 2 - STILL LIFE chosen as Dymocks Books 2021 Book of the Year They said “This book has touched the hearts of our Dymocks booksellers and is a joyful story, which has really resonated with our community in COVID times. Our booksellers have described it as ‘my favourite book of 2021’, ‘so skilful, so uplifting’ and have said ‘I just did not want to leave these amazing characters when the book ended.’ Still Life is sure to go down as a classic of our time.” Watch Sarah accept the award by clicking the button https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1636631537757-QWI4S5LQUSO7KOYB65YY/theroux+teh+keyhole.jpg News 2 - Louis Theroux’s latest book published THEROUX THE KEYHOLE is an honest, hilarious and ultimately heartwarming diary of the weirdness of family life in Covid World. A wife intolerant of his obsession with Joe Wicks’ daily workouts. Two teenage sons, inseparable from their videogames, for whom he is increasingly 'cringe'. A five-year-old happily spamming out videos on his own new TikTok account while on holiday with his oblivious family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1636631410071-HUA3ZXRJFZV15AH9BIPD/unnamed.jpg News 2 - STILL LIFE wins 2021 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1635947802971-JDL08OA86DHNHYGKT8BO/still-life-book-cover-ht-jt-211101_1635815168068_hpEmbed_9x14_1600.jpg News 2 - Good Morning America chooses STILL LIFE for November bookclub "GMA's" Book Club pick for November is the beautiful and big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war and art, from Sarah Winman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1635888479946-VFKZEQV2K7D0D3YY7ERW/dym210316_BOTY_Shortlisted_soc_StillLife_InstaStory.jpg News 2 - STILL LIFE chosen for Dymocks Book of the Year 2021 shortlist Dymocks, Australia’s largest bookselling chain, has announced their best books of the year - as selected by their booksellers across the country. Tim, Dymocks Brand and Content Manager said "This transportive and engulfing story had me walking the streets of Florence and sat in the corner of a rundown London pub with these lovable and memorable characters. Still Life is wholly arresting with the vignettes on the page coming to life like an award-winning film. " https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1634729722403-6N2MX4WW9O2BTUR4P7ZN/Sarah%2BWinman%2B-%2Bcredit%2BPatricia%2BNiven.jpg News 2 - Sarah Winman wins inaugural InWords Literary Award The InWords Literary Award (TILA) is a new prize worth £10,000 for a novel published in English or a writer’s body of work, and has been awarded to Sarah Winman for her novel STILL LIFE. Its creators and funders are life patrons of Cheltenham Festivals who wish to remain anonymous. They said "Still Life has brought joy and pleasure to so many readers in these strange and difficult times. The novel is an eloquent love letter to Florence, but more than that, it is a testimony to the value of kindness, the bonds of love and friendship among even unlikely combinations of people through vicissitudes great and small, and the timelessness and comfort of beauty and art. It is transcendent, utterly humane and beautifully written. ” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1632907927181-I00P9AD0BMNMJALZ7P9Z/unnamed+%281%29.png News 2 - Sarah Winman’s STILL LIFE chosen for new series of BBC book club with Sara Cox Between the Covers is the nation’s TV bookclub, hosted by Sara Cox. Sarah Winman’s beautiful big hearted novel joins the line up this Autumn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1629973323135-06UKI23EO0JDFTRSEAJG/theroux+teh+keyhole.jpg News 2 - Louis Theroux signs deal with Pan Macmillan for new book on his family in the time of Covid Publishing director Ingrid Connell has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, and the book will be released on 11th November. THEROUX THE KEYHOLE is an honest, hilarious and ultimately heartwarming diary of the weirdness of Louis Theroux’s family life in Covid world. A wife intolerant of his obsession with Joe Wicks’ daily workouts. Two teenage sons, inseparable from their video games, for whom he is increasingly ‘cringe’. A five-year-old happily spamming out videos on his own new TikTok account while on holiday with his oblivious family.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1629162259075-FYLRUES6INSA7MJE6TFO/GI81DvYa.jpg News 2 - Robert Caskie Ltd sponsors Marc Hamer’s over 40s non-fiction writing competition I’m delighted to sponsor Marc Hamer’s new prize for over 40s writing non-fiction. Nearly always when you read a book, it has some part of the author in there, not necessarily autobiographically, but their experience, of life, love, or death. Age can be a real benefit because you have a much broader life experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1628112604164-DXBUMMB93MGMC1I8X58T/E79YNtSXEAABvdn.jpg News 2 - Marc Hamer’s SEED TO DUST shortlisted for the 2021 Wainright Prize Now in its eighth year, the prize is awarded annually to the books which most successfully inspire readers to explore the outdoors and to nurture a respect for the natural world. The titles selected showcase a diverse group of writers and celebrate the wonder and awe of green spaces and natures’ creatures through the prism of the authors’ lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1626949575596-73LN91U5O7LQ58EP0KQA/sex+lives+african+women.jpg News 2 - Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s debut published THE SEX LIVES OF AFRICAN WOMEN provides a deep insight into women's quest for freedom, highlights the complex tapestry of African women's sexuality, and bestows upon all women inspirational examples to live a truly liberated life. Many of the women who tell their stories in this collection recall the journeys they have travelled in order to own their own sexualities. From finding queer community in Egypt to living a polyamorous life in Senegal to understanding the intersectionality of religion and pleasure in Cameroon to choosing to leave relationships that no longer serve them, these narratives are as individual and illuminating as the women who share them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1624882484291-NRDQYJ1L73V894P75GOP/cashman+pbk.jpg News 2 - Michael Cashman’s ONE OF THEM longlisted for 2021 Polari Prize We are delighted that Michael Cashman’s memoir has been longlisted for The Polari First Book Prize 2021. The Polari First Book Prize and the Polari Prize are the UK’s only dedicated awards for LGBTQ+ literature. ONE OF THEM contains as many multitudes as its author: glorious nostalgia, showbiz gossip and a stirring history of a civil rights movement. And above all things, it is a love story - a tender account of a partnership that changed the world. It joins fiction, poetry and graphic novels on the eclectic and diverse 2021 longlists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1624619459826-1MG09FSKFW326JPDWYKI/island+home.jpg News 2 - THE ISLAND HOME from Libby Page published Libby Page’s heartwarming story of families and community is out now. Following a mother and daughter who move from London to a small isle off the Scottish coast, The Island is a tender feel-good story of family bonds, community and coming to terms with the past from the bestselling author of The Lido. The perfect roadmap to a future full of hope and love, THE ISLAND HOME has gained great critical acclaim already. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1624619259369-M4FAH63Z1XRVEUNFON4T/about+bloody+time.jpg News 2 - Emma Barnett’s ABOUT BLOODY TIME out in paperback Revised and updated with a new chapter, Emma Barnett’s intimate and informative book about periods is out in paperback now. In this frank, funny rallying cry, Emma Barnett shares her story, as well as those of others, to ask why we’ve clammed up about menstruation. She’ll make you laugh, weep, and maybe squirm, about the natural process that nobody talks about, and smash this taboo once and for all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1624618981359-XQ3YVW93D3G3UOUIIUI2/Seed+to+Dust+wainwright.jpg News 2 - Marc Hamer’s SEED TO DUST longlisted for the 2021 Wainwright Prize The Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing is awarded annually to the book which most successfully inspires readers to explore the outdoors and to nurture a respect for the natural world. The prize shortlist will be announced on August 4th and the winners’ announcement will be made live on September 7th. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1623361418557-5OVE2SZTZ9V0LGRF04AA/lorraine+candy+book.jpg News 2 - Lorraine Candy’s MUM, WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU published Parenting columnist Lorraine Candy, a mum of four (including three teens), has written a warm and witty family memoir to lead mothers of teen daughters to a more harmonious parenting place. Alongside a wealth of hilarious personal anecdotes, Lorraine offers useful, easy-to-follow, well-researched guidance from experts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1623238806994-V1T55355VZSL7IA29HBX/Square_ST_BestsellerAsset.jpg News 2 - Sarah Winman’s STILL LIFE makes the Sunday Times Bestseller list The sweeping take of love and joy has instantly made the Sunday Times Bestseller list. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1622666748318-ISBG2K4N9BTNX0NM47B2/pragya+agarwal+motherhood.jpg News 2 - Pragya Agarwal’s (M)OTHERHOOD published In a world where women have more choices than ever, society nevertheless continues to exert the stigma and pressures of less enlightened times when it comes to having children. We define women by whether they embrace or reject motherhood; whether they can give birth or not. Extremely open in its honesty and meticulously researched, (M)otherhood probes themes of infertility, childbirth and reproductive justice, and makes a powerful and urgent argument for the need to tackle society's obsession with women's bodies and fertility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1622544183329-L080V7587R1VGV3Q5N9M/sarah+winman+still+life.jpg News 2 - Sarah Winman’s STILL LIFE published From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the ghost of E.M. Forster. 1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. Evelyn’s talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses’ mind that will shape the trajectory of his life – and of those who love him – for the next four decades. Moving from the Tuscan Hills and piazzas of Florence, to the smog of London’s East End, Still Life is a sweeping, joyful novel about beauty, love, family and fate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1621249089269-8UNZQGUZDX26A5LU8Y8N/cashman+pbk.jpg News 2 - Michael Cashman’s memoir shortlisted for RSL Christopher Bland Prize Michael Cashman’s powerful debut has been shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021. The prize is an annual award of £10,000 to a debut novelist or non-fiction writer first published aged 50 or over. His book joins five others on the shortlist. This year’s judges are Mary Beard (Chair), Monica Ali, Georgia Byng and Ben Hunte. The winner will be announced on 3 June. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1620904226869-X2EAGGV9O574T1KOEY3J/together+publication.jpg News 2 - Ece Temelkuran’s Together published This is not about how we messed things up. This is about what kind of world we want to live in now, and the joy we can take in finding our dignity again. In 2020 protest movements across the world revealed the inequalities sewn into the fabric of society. The wildfires that ravaged Australia and California made it clear we are in the middle of a climate catastrophe. The pandemic showed us all just how precarious our economies really are, and the conspiracy theories surrounding the US election proved the same of our democracies. Ece Temelkuran puts forward a compelling new narrative for our current moment, not for some idealised future but for right now. Above all, this book asks you to choose to have faith in the other human beings we share this planet with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1620337697811-ZCPB92JGLYI7ZVVRMSON/Marc%2BHamer1.jpg News 2 - Harvill Secker lands nature writer Hamer's 'life-affirming' memoir Harvill Secker has landed Tales of Spring Rain from acclaimed nature writer Marc Hamer. Liz Foley, publishing director, has acquired world English language rights. Publication is set for spring 2023. The publisher said: “In Tales of Spring Rain Hamer considers age and contentment and how we reconcile our sense of ourselves as children with where we have ended up as adults. He weaves practical gardening knowledge through these two meditative memoir strands as he describes the planning and planting of his new small garden near Cardiff.” Marc’s first book, A Life in Nature: or How to Catch a Mole (Vintage), was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1595845521233-BZP8OZ3GK4D0HOW5ZWZ4/clune.jpg News 2 - Jackie Clune’s debut novel out now in paperback The book Nigella Lawson has called obligatory reading for all parents of teenagers is now out in paperback. I'm Just A Teenage Punchbag is a laugh-out-loud, sob-on-the bus journey through the so-called life of a middle-aged mother of teenagers. Ciara is mother to three ungrateful, entitled teenagers, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1617232468616-5MQKV3TTKVATQQQWCFVG/tony+king.jpg News 2 - Faber acquires memoir from fabled music-industry figure Tony King, due for publication in 2023. Alexa von Hirschberg pre-empted World All Languages rights based, unusually, on a nine-minute video submission. Confidante and creative muse for some of the world’s greatest artists, including Elton John, Freddie Mercury and John Lennon, Tony King has a story unlike any other. For over six decades, he has been at the beating heart of the most iconic musical moments and this story will be essential reading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1587589483283-X1URKERLSJHCOMRW6VAC/Nana%2BDarkoa%2BSekyiamah%2B1.jpg News 2 - Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s THE SEX LIVES OF AFRICAN WOMEN to be published by Astra House in North America The confessional testimony of the many expressions of love and desire from women across the African continent and diaspora was bought at auction and will be published in Spring 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1615896503448-4HKM80K7PUKETETQBU9E/Winnie%252BLi.jpg News 2 - Winnie M Li’s thriller goes in 5 way auction for North American rights Winnie M Li’s #MeToo-inspired novel has sold in the US to Emily Bestler Books/Atria at Simon & Schuster for “a substantial" six-figure sum in a five-way auction with several other major territories being finalised. North American rights for Complicit have sold in a hotly fought auction to Emily Bestler, senior vice-president and editor-in-chief at Emily Bestler Books/Atria at Simon & Schuster in a two-book deal. The deal was struck by Jessica Purdue, rights director at Orion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1614205469502-9AVVZKY1EZH9UOM4BM6P/margaret+reynolds+jkt.jpg News 2 - Margaret Reynold’s powerful memoir published How to find an outlet for a love that demands expression? Single, in her mid-forties and having experienced a sudden early menopause, the realisation comes to Peggy quietly, and clearly, she decides to adopt a child. But the preparation is arduous and the scrutiny intense. There are questions about past lives, about capability and expectations. Asking big questions about identity and belonging, as well as about what makes a mother - and a home - THE WILD TRACK is a beautiful meditation on how the legacies of childhood might be overcome by a mother's determination to love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1613600285256-01SET23JEFCD0XY2WEUP/libby+page+cafe+pbk.jpg News 2 - Libby Pages’ novel about friendship, life and love published in paperback Libby Pages’ THE 24-HOUR CAFE is an uplifting story of friendship, hope and following your dreams, set over one single day. Day and night, Stella's Café opens its doors to the lonely and the lost, the morning people and the night owls. It's a place where everyone is always welcome, where life can wait at the door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1613599954929-0AD8KEL0NXQX9L1YHN8D/cashman+pbk.jpg News 2 - Michael Cashman’s ONE OF THEM published in paperback Michael Cashman has lived many lives, all of them remarkable: beloved actor of stage and screen; campaigner for gay rights; MEP; and life peer. ONE OF THEM contains as many multitudes as its author: glorious nostalgia, wicked showbiz gossip, a stirring history of a civil rights movement, a sorrowfully clear-eyed exposition of Britain's standing in Europe, and an unforgettable love story. Told with warmth, wit and humanity, it is an account of a life lived both left-of-field and firmly embedded in the heart of all that makes Britain liberal and good. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1586432810866-VXGVSAF7OJ46VC6C0J4W/Winnie+Li.jpg News 2 - Orion signs Winnie M Li’s new book, COMPLICIT, in 48-hour pre-empt Orion Fiction has bought Winnie M Li’s new book for a six figure sum within 48 hours of receiving the manuscript, in a two-book deal. COMPLICIT explores questions raised by the #MeToo movement, and the dark side of Hollywood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1612957391439-7METTVR8HKMQCIP82TOM/James+Roberts+-+Image.jpg News 2 - James Roberts’ debut acquired by September Publishing September Publishing will publish James Roberts’ non-fiction debut TWO LIGHTS in 2022. TWO LIGHTS uses dawn and dusk as a prism through which to explore landscape, wildlife and our human responses and connections to the natural world. With interwoven strands of personal reflection and story, the book ranges continents - from the Welsh Black Mountains to the Great Rift Valley, through English dusks and endless Arctic dawns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1610578713823-DZKA6OTPS4KLSH4S0UQD/image-asset.jpeg News 2 - Marc Hamer’s Seed To Dust published Marc Hamer’s second book was published in January 2021 by Harvill Secker. Marc has designed and nurtured 12 acres of garden for over two decades. It is rarely visited so he is the only person who fully knows its secrets, but it is not his own. His relationship with the garden’s owner is both distant and curiously intimate. In this life-enhancing book he takes us month-by-month through his experiences, as the seasons’ changes bring new plants and wildlife to the fore and lead him to reflect on his past and future. Through his peaceful and meditative prose we learn about gardening folklore and wisdom, the joys of manual labour, his path from solitary homelessness to family contentment and the cycle of growth and decay that runs through both the garden’s life and our own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1595845908667-QFW6EQLSTBD2O21EGLV1/wwkwts+agarwal.jpg News 2 - New book from Pragya Agarwal published Behavioural and data scientist Dr Pragya Agarwal’s latest title is out now from Dialogue Books. Wish We Knew What to Say is a timely and urgent book that gives scenarios, questions, thought starters, resources and advice in an accessible manner on how to tackle tricky conversations around race and racism with confidence and awareness. it brings in the science of how children perceive race and form racial identity, combining it with personal stories and experiences to create a handy guide that every parent would refer to again and again. Wish We Knew What to Say will help all parents, carers and educators give children the tools and vocabulary to talk about people's differences and similarities in an open, non-judgemental, curious way, and help them address any unfairness they might see or encounter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1601988685221-W8RL5T1HSMX4HV306ZM0/hamer+nature.jpg News 2 - A Life in Nature out in paperback Marc Hamer’s beautiful book, A LIFE IN NATURE, is out now in paperback. At the age of sixteen, Marc left home with only a rucksack and started walking. By day, he observed the animals and birds. By night, he slept under hedges, in woodlands and on riverbanks. It was the beginning of a life in nature. This beautiful, meditative book explores what nature can teach us about ourselves and our search for contentment. It is a celebration of living peacefully and finding joy in the world around us. 'It is rare to encounter such respect and understanding of nature' Rosamund Young, author of The Secret Life of Cows ** Longlisted for The Wainwright Prize 2019 ** https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1600253487315-FS8K8DTAU2P34YA5GLGB/paul+behrens+best+worst.jpg News 2 - Paul Behrens’ debut published Indigo Press have published Paul Behrens’ debut book, THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES: FUTURES FROM THE FRONTIERS OF CLIMATE. The environmental emergency is the greatest threat we face. Preventing it will require an unprecedented political and social response. And yet, there is still hope. Academic, physicist, environmental expert and award-winning science communicator Paul Behrens presents a radical analysis of a civilisation on the brink of catastrophe. Setting out the pressing existential threats we face, he writes, in alternating chapters, of what the future could look like at its most pessimistic and hopeful. He argues that structural problems need structural solutions, and examines critical areas in which political will is required, including women's education, food and energy security, biodiversity and economics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1589728450175-GUEWX0PTKHX8RULYBFUT/Irreplaceable_pb.jpeg News 2 - Julian Hoffman - Wainright Prize Julian Hoffman was Highly Commended for the brand new Wainright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation. The judges felt that IRREPLACEABLE is a powerful and important book that ensured there was plenty to debate at judges meetings. The prize celebrates efforts in or, studies relating to conservation or climate change as it affects nature and the outdoors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1588070014011-V6ZBV5UG9BGQLVJTFH2J/winman+tinman.jpg News 2 - Tin Man Optioned by Hillbilly Films Film rights have been sold for Sarah Winman’s TIN MAN, a heartbreaking celebration of love in all its forms, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Novel Award. Hillbilly Films makes high end, critically acclaimed and award-winning feature films and television drama. Hillbilly seeks out projects that offer up something different – a fresh perspective, characters not seen before, stories that offer a sideways glance at the world. Co-founders Polly Leys and Kate Norrish are passionate about their work and proud of their reputation for being a nurturing and supportive home for new and emerging writers and directors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1588070013430-A19SM8RHCIL6WGA50W5W/spicer+lost+dog.jpg News 2 - Netflix to make Lost Dog movie Netflix has won a competitive auction for rights to feel-good rom-com LOST DOG: A LOVE STORY, an adaptation of Kate Spicer’s Sunday Times best-seller memoir of the same name. Former New Line exec Lynn Harris is producing with her Weimaraner Republic partner Matti Leshem (The Shallows). Bash Doran, whose credits include Netflix’s Outlaw King, Channel4 and Netflix series Traitors and Hulu’s The Looming Tower, is attached to adapt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1595847563614-O3ID8Z9YZSS3SVNM1KIV/theroux+theroux.jpg News 2 - Louis Theroux’s audio book in US & Canada Bolinda have acquired exclusive US and Canada audio rights in Louis Theroux’s GOTTA GET THEROUX THIS. Narrated by Louis, the listener is taken on a very personal journey with the author, from his anxiety-prone childhood to his unexpectedly successful career - offering fresh insight into some of Louis’ most entertaining and controversial documentaries. This acquisition comes at a very exciting time, alongside the announcement of Theroux’s new podcast, Grounded, where Louis is using lockdown to track down some of the people he's been longing to talk to. The paperback of Gotta Get Theroux This was at no6 in the Sunday Times paperback bestseller list at the time of announcement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1595846372635-794BUCLHM16OEJTVTROO/ece+temelkuran+credit+Tomazs+Kordek News 2 - Ece Temelkuran - new book Helen Garnons-Williams and Jordan Mulligan at 4th Estate have acquired UK & Commonwealth rights in a new book by the highly acclaimed author and journalist, Ece Temelkuran: TOGETHER: 10 choices for a better now. 4th Estate will publish in hardback in March 2021. Rights have also already been sold in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. TOGETHER is a passionate and inspiring defence of humankind in our turbulent age. A blend of memoir, polemic, political and historical analysis, it outlines ten choices we can make to build a new political narrative for ourselves: how we can choose how to be, and what we can do, to create a future that puts faith in humanity first. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1595845521233-BZP8OZ3GK4D0HOW5ZWZ4/clune.jpg News 2 - Jackie Clune publication day Jackie’s hilarious new novel is out now, I’M JUST A TEENAGE PUNCHBAG is a laugh-out-loud, sob-on-the bus journey through the so-called life of a middle-aged woman. If motherhood is a job - who says you can't resign? ‘A bloody marvellous read. Horribly familiar, funny, touching, sad, brutally honest ... I recommend you clutch this book to your stained T-shirt and never let it go.' JO BRAND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1594986372221-F0NIBLDIL00ILRFGVJ36/lorraine-headshot-1440x1800.jpg News 2 - Lorraine Candy - new book announcement Louise Haines at 4th Estate has bought UK and Commonwealth rights for Lorraine Candy’s first book, 1001 THINGS ONLY MOTHERS OF TEENAGE GIRLS KNOW: THE MANUAL. Her book will be part guide, part memoir and part love-letter to Lorraine’s two teenage daughters, and a candid, helpful and hilarious guide to the many unexpected challenges of mothering teenage girls. It will be published in Spring 2021. Louise Haines said: ‘There has been hardly anything published to date about this trickiest stage of parenting. Lorraine is the most acutely observant, knowledgeable and funniest writer about teenage daughters and also about being a mum navigating the terrain of midlife at the same time.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1595845908667-QFW6EQLSTBD2O21EGLV1/wwkwts+agarwal.jpg News 2 - Dr Pragya Agarwal - new book aquisition Sharmaine Lovegrove has acquired for Dialogue Books the world rights for Pragya Agarwal’s new book, which will be published in October 2020. WISH WE KNEW WHAT TO SAY is a manual for parents to raise anti-racist children. The book will be a tool kit and guide for all parents from all backgrounds to talk openly and honestly about race from the ages of 2- 12 years old. The book gives scenarios, questions, thought starters, advice and resources in how to tackle tricky conversations with confidence and awareness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1592392414788-YVPH8AE70HRQNGF4EUUH/emma%252Bdesouza.jpg News 2 - Emma DeSouza I am really happy to welcome Emma DeSouza to Robert Caskie Ltd. Emma is a citizens rights campaigner and public speaker who has been widely lauded as a leader in the next generation of peace makers in Northern Ireland. Having launched a successful grassroots campaign that garnered international praise Emma is now working on her first book on the power of rights movements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1590062826530-9YDD93HZ33QB5ZTPDSCX/manda+scott+treachery+spies+pb.jpg News 2 - Manda Scott Great news that the film and tv rights to Manda’s Scott’s critically acclaimed prize winning novel A Treachery of Spies have been secured by Beaglepug films and Enriched Media Group. Beaglepug’s founder, David Barron, veteran producer of six Harry Potter films, has spoken about how excited he is to bring this award-winning and distinctively European story to a global market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1591008463138-0XUHB0SK4F8QL28MAO5R/Peggy%2525202.jpg News 2 - Margaret Reynolds June deal announcement: Helena Gonda at Transworld Publishers has bought UK & Commonwealth rights in The Bright Field by Margaret Reynolds, professor of English at Queen Mary University London. This is a book about what makes a mother, and a home; how the legacies of childhood may impact on the experience of parenting; and how the pervasive nature of childhood trauma might be faced by a mother’s determination to love. The Bright Field by Margaret Reynolds will be published by Doubleday in hardback in Spring 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1589726125544-PZN6ZAVZC8S87GMFEBZD/Trevor_Mcdonald_An_improbable_life.jpg News 2 - Trevor McDonald The paperback edition of Trevor McDonald’s engaging, intimate and moving book, An Improbable Life, was published in May. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1589726539074-6WADQ59S1V1BJ5NJMI21/Kevin_Braddock.jpg News 2 - Kevin Braddock I’m delighted to welcome Kevin Braddock to Robert Caskie Ltd. Kevin is a writer-editor with over 25 years experience in journalism. He develops tools and narratives to assist people dealing with depression and anxiety. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1589727454448-71OHMPXX8Q3FQJYF8GYA/Trish_Halpin.jpg News 2 - Trish Halpin I’m thrilled to welcome Trish Halpin to Robert Caskie Ltd. An award winning Editor in Chief, content strategist and coach, she also co-hosts the podcast Postcards from Midlife https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1589727874337-YSDITHOWZ2QHOAFS38QM/Sway_cover.jpg News 2 - Sway - Unravelling Unconscious Bias Dr Pragya’s Agarwal’s important and thought-provoking book, SWAY - Unravelling Unconscious Bias was published in April by Bloomsbury. Described by various reviewers as “eye-opening”, “indispensable” and “searingly relevant”, it was Book of The Week in the Review Section of The Saturday Guardian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/1589729732991-N9N669A1YP142G3UWHI9/Pragya+Agarwal_web_image.jpg News 2 - Pragya Agarwal Hannah Knowles at Canongate has acquired at auction UK & Commonwealth rights in two titles by Dr Pragya Agarwal - Free Will: A journey in motherhood and fertility and Hysterical: The Gendered Nature of Emotions. https://www.robertcaskie.com/isaias-fanlo daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/d65ec07d-caae-4730-a0a8-97466d511791/2024_08_14+_Isaias+Fanlo_Author+Images2771+%28c%29+Ajamu.png Isaias Fanlo Isaias Fanlo is a Catalan writer, scholar, and cultural manager. Born in Lleida (Spain) in 1980, he has lived in Barcelona and Chicago and is now based in Cambridge. He is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Iberian Cultures at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Iberian Studies at Fitzwilliam College. His research on Iberian cultures, the performing arts, and queer theory has been published in leading academic journals and edited volumes. He also writes on culture and activism for Spanish media outlets. In 2004 he published El llibre rosa (“The Pink Book”), a non-fiction work widely regarded as a pioneering study of gender and sexuality in Catalonia. His first novel, El pes de la boira (“The Weight of the Mist”), appeared in 2025 to critical acclaim. An ambitious queer Bildungsroman, the novel moves between historical memory and magical realism, exploring the open wounds of the past in the fictional city of Rotunda, a remote inland town surrounded by desert, marked by freezing, mist-laden winters and implacable summers. He has recently completed his second novel, Después de la tormenta (“After the Blizzard”), a queer love story set during a long winter night in Chicago, as well as Lo errático y lo obsceno (“The Erratic and the Obscene”), a monograph on queer theatre in Spain. Alongside his academic and literary work, Isaias Fanlo has developed an extensive career in cultural management. He has worked as an editor, dramaturgist, and content creator for Barcelona’s Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, served as artistic advisor to the Teatre Lliure, and acted as literary consultant for various projects in Barcelona and Chicago. He is the founder of Terrats en Cultura, Barcelona’s award-winning rooftop performing arts festival, which is an active member of the European Creative Rooftop Network. He lives in the countryside with his partner, Michael, his cat Mimi, and his chickens, Pedro, Penélope, and Paloma. Find Isaias on Instagram https://www.robertcaskie.com/mai-musie daily 0.75 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8476aff4ace22b2a2a7e4b/28d2e051-ed0c-4ce7-beb9-9ec16894e3cf/Blueprint_by_John_Cairns_7.2.20-47+3.jpg Mai Musié Mai Musié is a British-Eritrean writer, academic, and knowledge exchange professional. Born in Asmara, Eritrea in 1981, she came to the UK as a child refugee of the Ethiopian-Eritrean civil war. Mai has spent the last three and half decades living, studying, and working in London, Swansea, Oxford, and Bristol. Mai was awarded her PhD in Ancient History from Swansea University in 2019. Her area of specialism is the history and literature of the imperial Greek and Roman age, focusing on race and representation in the ancient novels. Alongside her academic interests, Mai Musié has developed an extensive career in public engagement and has worked with universities and the cultural sector on history and heritage projects that foster co-curation, co-production, and building equitable relationships between communities and researchers. She is currently the Senior Manager for the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Mai is well known for her public engagement and outreach work and was awarded the 2019 Classical Association Prize, given each year to the individual who has done the most to raise the profile of Classics in the public eye. She enjoys communicating the stories of the ancient world for modern audiences through tv, radio, podcasts, and interviewing writers and actors. Mai currently lives in Bristol with her partner, her two young children, and two older stepchildren. Find Mai on Instagram