Press Release: Deals Done
The Mistress Of The Storm - M L Welsh
Posted at 9:00AM Thursday 11 Mar 2010
David Fickling Books is thrilled to have acquired two extraordinary and magical novels for ten-year-olds and upwards by exciting new author, M L Welsh!The deal was made by Bella Pearson with Catherine Pellegrino of Rogers, Coleridge and White, for World English Language rights. Bella Pearson, editorial director at David Fickling Books, comments: "We are so thrilled to welcome such an enormously talented writer to the DFB list. Melanie Welsh has written a first novel that will have children (and adults) reading under their bedclothes with torches - intrigue lurks round every corner, as well as a cast of wonderfully warm characters and the most menacing grandmother in children's literature. I couldn't put this book down - in the tradition of Cornelia Funke and Diana Wynne Jones, it has at its heart a truly inventive and magical story." Verity Gallant lives in the harbour town of Wellow and tries to fit into life as best she can. But her life starts to unravel when a mysterious stranger hands her a red-bound book, and it is only with the help of her two best friends that she is able to combat the forces of magic which threaten to engulf the town and her family too. Melanie spent her formative years in the sailing town of Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. The tightly-bound community, maritime history and captivating landscapes of the southern Island were all sources of inspiration for the fictional town of Wellow in which The Mistress of the Storm is set. Melanie now lives in Suffolk, near the seaside town of Southwold, with her husband and their two sons. Notes for Editors David Fickling Books is publisher of quality picture books and fiction, and is home to some of the most bestselling and highly acclaimed authors including Philip Pullman, John Boyne, Mark Haddon and Giles Andreae. Its authors have won all of the major literary prizes including the Costa Children's Book of the Year (Set in Stone by Linda Newbery), the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon) and most recently the Carnegie Medal (Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd). David Fickling Books is an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a Random House Group Company, and is based in Oxford, England and New York, USA. For more information please contact: Lauren Bennett T: 020 8231 6439 or E: lbennett@randomhouse.co.uk
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