Great news! Our sister company Doubleday US has bought CS Richardson’s novel, The Grand Tour of Ambrose Zephyr, and they plan to publish it in August 2007. The timing of our publication will not change but obviously the addition of such a high caliber partner is a great one.

There will be one significant change to the novel and that is its title. With a firm sense of what works best in their market Doubleday US has retitled the book The End of the Alphabet and we are going to follow suit - the novel being best served if it has the same title on both sides of the border. I should say that the novel will have a happy life beyond North America too as rights for it have already been sold in Italy and Germany, with a Spanish deal soon to follow. CS Richardson’s agent was thrilled with the attention the book got when she pitched it to international publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair earlier this month. She has since had queries about the novel from territories as diverse as Israel and South Korea. So it seems that readers around the globe will be treated to this very special story.