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Huge congratulations to Paul Murray, whose peerlessly funny and moving Skippy Dies has been picked for this year’s Man Booker longlist. We are thrilled!
Because You can't Have Too Much Jarvis 30 July 2010
Here he is, cueing up the Strokes at the Caught by the River tent at Port Eliot last weekend.
And here is the mayhem that ensued!
Post Port Eliot 29 July 2010
We are all back from the Port Eliot Festival, minus a tent peg or two but full of memories of a vintage year. We marvelled at Diana Athill, danced to Jarvis Cocker, went wild swimming with Kate Rew, got dressed up with Luella Bartley and Stephen Jones, attended the Idler’s Academy, learnt how to cook on a primus stove with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, laughed aloud to Paul Murray’s reading and even entered the Flower Show (where our publishing director was Highly Commended for his floral interpretation of the novel The Tin Drum and won’t stop talking about it).
We also launched our bumper Festival Issue of Five Dials, with Grayson Perry pressing the ‘send’ key on Michael Howell’s extravagantly decked Flower Show stage. Badaude was there to capture the scene and has just sent us this record of the event.
Time for a change of scene 22 July 2010
Suddenly Port Eliot Festival 2010 is upon us. A whole quarter of the HH workforce is already in situ, and the remaining three-quarters have spent the morning discussing tent sizes, and whether a sun hat or rain hat would be more appropriate.
By this time tomorrow, our desks will be empty and the party will be underway. See you there.
Salinger Saturday 20 July 2010
Luminous Gallery in east London hosted a Salinger event over the weekend, with the help of our own Roz Hutchison. These pictures were taken by her during the set-up. We especially love the gentleman to the left of the picture above, almost like a ghost from the 1950s of Salinger’s fiction . . .
A fair swap? 15 July 2010
The ranks of Hamish Hamilton HQ will be swelling at the beginning of August when Josephine Greywoode joins us for six months as the first Helen Fraser Fellow. She’ll be leaving behind the pleasures of Rome and the Keats-Shelley Memorial House, where she is currently Assistant Curator, and we sincerely hope that she’ll find London and our offices on the Strand equally delightful.
Counting pages 14 July 2010
As well as discussing the merits of a certain turn of phrase, or of this or that author’s most recent novel, we at Hamish Hamilton have been known to weigh up – literally – the merits of long books and short books. And we’d now like to direct those with similar preoccupations to Matt Clacher’s blog about this very subject.
Tonight at the Tabernacle 14 July 2010
If you go down to the Tabernacle tonight, you’ll see and hear a whole host of things, all in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. Look closely at the details here and you’ll see that Lydia Davis is amongst the names featured. You’ll be given the chance to hear her story ‘A Second Chance’ before reading it in her Collected Stories, which we’re publishing in August.
Salinger in the limelight 8 July 2010
Every publisher with a pedigree is likely to have its fair share of great names, but we happen to be blessed with what are (arguably) some of the greatest of them all. But today we’ll mention just one: Salinger. For on Saturday 17th July he – or, more accurately, his oeuvre – is set to take centre-stage at Luminous Books in Hackney They are hosting an aptly named ‘Salinger Saturday’, which promises many and varied delights. See here for details.
Behind the scenes 7 July 2010
Like all self-respecting professionals, we usually like to surround ourselves with an air of mystery, but just occasionally we’ll allow a little light to shine through onto our lives and onto our desks. This week, it was Anna Kelly’s turn to do just that. To see her interview with EssentialWriters.com, click here.
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