http://windmill.rhgd.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:16:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The author of The Brother Gardeners will be giving a talk at the British Library on the 2nd February from 6pm. For directions to the event, click here. http://windmill.rhgd.co.uk/index.php/2009/12/andrea-wulf-talk-at-the-british-library/  Rachel Heath's debut novel The Finest Type of English Womanhood has been shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. The judges praised the book as "dark and gripping story which merges fact and fiction so powerfully". The winner will be announced on the 5th January, and Windmill will publish the paperback in ... http://windmill.rhgd.co.uk/index.php/2009/12/the-finest-type-of-english-womanhood-shortlisted-for-the-costa-first-novel-award/ The sneak preview is almost at an end, thanks to all of you who had a look around and commented/Tweeted us. Your suggestions will be taken in, your praise wallowed in, and you criticisms used to check our expanding egos. Now, without further ado, here's the promised giveaway for your ... http://windmill.rhgd.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/twitter-giveawaytwivawaygivatwitthing/ Working in publishing has done many things for me - from testing the limits of coffee consumption (five, since you ask, after that I'm shaking so much I spill more than I drink), to putting me in touch with a startling variety of 'eccentric' people (your unpublished, unknown book has ... http://windmill.rhgd.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/fiction-or-non-fiction-or-both/ Whilst this blog is in its early stages, tottering around like a new born foal, I think it'd be good to say early on what we're not going to do here, and why. This is as much for our benefit and anything else, because if put it all out there ... http://windmill.rhgd.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/whatwearenot/ Welcome to your sneak peak of the new site for Windmill Books, proud publishers of some of the most exciting new and established literary authors around today. The site will officially be launched on the 1st December, with more of the latest titles, news from our authors, events, competitions, podcasts, and ... http://windmill.rhgd.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/windmill-books-the-sneak-peak/ This is the kind of question only a slow reader (like me) asks. What we're doing - us 'slowies' with our 'One book a month perhaps if we really knuckle down on a Sunday rather than get stuck watching X-Factor again, however 'ironically' we're allegedly 'enjoying' it' - is trying ... http://windmill.rhgd.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/what-kind-of-reader-are-you/ Douglas Coupland, John Niven and Nick Harkaway have all been chosen in ShortList magazine's list 'The 50 Books Every Man Should Own'. The list also has a feature by Nick Harakaway in which he praises Josh Bazell's Beat the Reaper, published by Hutchinson ealier this year, and Windmill in 2010: 'Bazell's ... http://windmill.rhgd.co.uk/index.php/2009/10/windmill-authors-in-50-books-every-man-must-own-list/