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ROOM:
The New Novel by Emma Donoghue
Imagine a room. Twelve foot by twelve.Bed. Bath. Wardrobe. Table. Chair. Rocker. Stove. Television.
No windows. Only Skylight.
Door is locked. Always.
Imagine this is your home. The only home you’ve ever known.
Meet Jack. It’s his birthday. He’s five. Jack lives in Room with Ma.
Jack has never been Outside.
Narrated by Jack, ROOM turns the horror of real-life cases of forced imprisonment into a moving exploration of human resilience, the intimate bond between mother and child, and the assumptions we all make about the world around us.
Powerful and engrossing, funny and yet brutal in its honesty, the novel will be published by Little, Brown in the US and Picador in the UK (publication dates to be announced). Translation rights are available through Little, Brown Inc. HarperCollins Canada will publish ROOM in Canada.
Read more about Emma Donoghue and her writing>>
Emma Donoghue’s INSEPARABLE: A HISTORY OF DESIRE BETWEEN WOMEN
In May 2010, Knopf US will publish Emma’s discoveries about the recurring patterns of story-telling and same-sex desire in the literature of the past 800 years, based on decades of original research.
Chris Greenhalgh’s novel, COCO & IGOR
is filmed as ‘COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY’
COCO & IGOR is based on the real-life affair between the fashion designer, Coco Chanel, and the composer, Igor Stravinsky, in 1920 – the year that Chanel created ‘Chanel No. 5’. Now director Jan Kounen has brought the novel to the screen using Chris’s own screenplay. Anna Mouglalis and Mads Mikkelsen play the lovers.
The film was chosen to occupy the prestigious closing slot of the Cannes Film Festival (24 May 2009).
The novel: COCO & IGOR
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky’s destinies first cross in 1913, at the riotous Paris première of The Rite of Spring. The audience is scandalized by the rhythmic dissonance of Igor’s score and the angular choreography created by the Ballets Russes’s star dancer, Nijinsky, but Coco is impressed when Igor storms out of the theatre.
Seven years later, their paths cross again. Coco’s business has flourished but she is mourning her lover, ‘Boy’ Capel. By contrast, Igor has been forced to flee the Russian Revolution. He is penniless and, without a piano, cannot work. Coco invites him – along with his wife and four children – to spend the summer at her villa, ‘Bel Respiro’. Both experience a fresh burst of creativity and, as the sensuality and excitement of their work draws them closer, they soon begin an intoxicating affair.
However, the tension at ‘Bel Respiro’ becomes unbearable when Igor’s wife is diagnosed with consumption.
UK volume rights in COCO & IGOR are available. The novel was first published in the UK by Headline Review in 2002.
In the US, Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Inc, will publish the novel in January 2010.
COCO & IGOR has been translated into several languages, including French, Russian, Polish, and Greek.
Vogue: review of COCO & IGOR (2002)
The Observer: Peter Conrad’s review of COCO & IGOR (2002)
Guidelines for Submissions
CDLA is pleased to receive submissions of certain types of fiction and non-fiction manuscripts for representation. There are areas in which we have no interest, for example fantasy writing, so we recommend you read our guidelines before wasting time and resources sending us work which would be better sent elsewhere.Read our fiction submission guidelines here>>
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The film: ‘Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky’
The film will go on general release in France, Russia, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands over Summer and Autumn 2009.
Theatrical release in the US and Canada is scheduled for January 2010.
Further Reading:
- Official film brochure, including stills and an interview with Chris Grenhalgh
- Official film website
- Film trailer
- ‘Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky’ on the Cannes Film Festival website, including videos, photos and interviews)
- ‘Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky’ on the Internet Movie Database
- The Sunday Times: Audrey Tautou and Anna Mouglalis to star as Chanel
- The Evening Standard: Teacher pens finale to Cannes in holidays
Reviews of The Film:
Some positive... And some less positive...A SHADOW FALLS IN THE HEART OF JAVA
On 2 April 2009, Faber & Faber published Andrew Beatty’s account of his two and a half years in a village in Eastern Java, Indonesia,. When Beatty arrived in Bayu with his family in 1992, he was entranced by the peaceful pluralism he found. Islamic, mystic and animist beliefs and rituals were interwoven in a uniquely Javanese way, without conflict or contradiction. In 1997, during his second period in Bayu, Beatty watched with growing unease as a new, intolerant Islamism took hold, bringing with it a surge of violence and witch-killings.“This fascinating and moving book…is as enthralling as a novel” – THE ECONOMIST
“A must read” – THE FINANCIAL TIMES
“One of the most sensitive and insightful books on Indonesia in recent years…A triumph” – THE JAKARTA GLOBE
“Rewarding…readable…evocative” – THE LITERARY REVIEW
US volume rights are available in A SHADOW FALLS IN THE HEART OF JAVA. Please contact us for further details.
Click here for reviews and more information about Andrew Beatty and his book