Posted by Monica Cardenas on 4 November 2021, in Member news, News
Each month we gather news from our members to share with the network! This is what's happening this month...
Congratulations to Tim Martion, whose book No Job for Gentlemen is now available on Kindle and in paperback, with an audiobook in the works.
A lascivious romp through the world of technology venture capital. This is a steamy comic novel in the tradition of Tom Sharpe. There is intrigue, seduction, humour and romance as the team at Aardvark Venture Capital try to sort out business and relationship challenges in equal measure. This is the world of venture capital fully exposed and for those readers who like books which are not meant to be taken seriously and which are designed to make them laugh.
You can buy it here on Amazon.
The Redfern Gallery will soon present the exhibition, Catherine Kurtz: Pinned. The title is taken from one of three series of paintings, also including Memento Mori and Torn. This body of work represents Kurtz’ expression of our universal vulnerability and mortal fragility.
Kurtz explains: “Depicting isolated or juxtaposed objects I am able to explore various preoccupying themes, such as the reductive and skewed attitudes that colour female experience, and ideas around mortality and the fragility of life.”
November 16-December 21. Learn more here.
Catherine Kurtz is also known as Cat Black.
On 13, 14, 20 and 21 November, A B Kyazze will take part in a local arts trail in Southeast London, called Lee Green Open Studios. A map and more details are available here.
Give a Book is a UK based charity that promotes books and the pleasure of reading in the hardest places. Our main work is in prisons, schools and with disadvantaged children. Prison Reading Groups (PRG) began in 1999 and provides support and funding for reading groups in prisons across the UK. PRG is part of Give a Book (charity no 1149664).
"The work you do really isn’t just simply, giving a book.” - Head teacher at a school where we helped create a library.
“When I read a book it gives me the chance to escape into another world.” - Member of a Prison Reading Group.
Rohan Quine’s six published titles have each received a nod from the NYC Big Book Award 2021. Although it’s not restricted to the U.S., the award’s inclusion of the letters “NYC” in its name feels like an appropriate bit of geography, because Rohan was a New Yorker for a decade, and NYC was where four of the six titles were partly written and three of them were started.
The novel The Beasts of Electra Drive is a Winner in the Cross Genre category; The Imagination Thief is a Distinguished Favorite in the Literary Fiction category; the four novellas that constitute The Platinum Raven and other novellas are a Distinguished Favorite in the Anthology category; and the audiobook format of The Beasts of Electra Drive, which Rohan narrated along with its video-book format, is also a Distinguished Favorite in the Audiobook-Fiction category.
If you're looking for inspiration, be sure to watch the new Ted Talk from Awais Khan, Trust your inner voice: a Pakistani author's journey to success.
Congratulations to Rupal Patel, whose book From CIA to CEO: Unconventional Life Lessons for Thinking Bigger, Leading Better, and Being Bolder will be published in Spring 2022 by Heligo Books (an imprint of Bonnier Books UK). It draws on Rupal's CIA training in adaptability, high-pressure performance, and mental agility, and combines those unique insights with her business grounding to offer a one-of-a-kind tradecraft toolkit.
If you'd like to pre-order copies for yourself or put in a bulk order for your business, please contact Heligo Books.
Ever entrepreneurial, James Faktor, of Lume Books fame has recently launched BookVolts.Book Volts utilises blockchain technology and publishes Digital First Edition books in NFT format. Check them out at https://bookvolts.com/about-
Want to come to one of the world's best festivals? (Conde Nast Traveller 2020). ALSO Festival is now in it's 9th year and specialises in brilliant ideas from great books brought to life in a fabulous Capability Brown setting on the banks of the lake. If you'd like to be with them 8th - 10th July 2022, they are offering Byte the Book subscribers a special offer. Until the 21st November if you buy a ticket from them they will send to you a copy of any one of the speaker's books featured at ALSO Festival or Salon London. Take a look at the choice here. Once you've booked your ticket, email helen@also-festival.com with your confirmation and let them know which book you've chosen and they will send it to any address in the UK - making a great gift for you or for a friend.
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