Categories
- Articles
- Awards
- Blog
- Book Reviews
- Crippen
- Events
- Festivals
- Films
- Interviews
- Mutiny On The Bounty
- Next of Kin
- Noah Barleywater Runs Away
- Publications
- Radio
- Random
- Readings
- Short Stories
- Striped Pyjamas – The Movie
- The Absolutist
- The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
- The Congress of Rough Riders
- The Dare
- The House of Special Purpose
- The Telegram Man
- The Terrible Thing That Happened To Barnaby Brocket
- The Thief of Time
- Travels
- TV Shows
- Uncategorized
- Videos
- What I Read
Archives
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
Category Archives: Mutiny On The Bounty
German Bounty
The Audio CDs
The German edition of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY has just been published by Fischer and the German audio edition by Der Horverlag, read by Florian Lukas, under the title DER SCHIFFSJUNGE.
The Novel
Catalan and Galicia
Two new foreign language editions of my books are published in Spain this week. The Galician edition of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is published by Faktoria k de Libros, titled MOTIN NA BOUNTY, while the Catalan edition of THE DARE is published by Grup 62 under the title L’APOSTA.
Italian Bounty
The Italian edition of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is published this week by my Italian publisher Rizzoli. It’s called IL RAGAZZO DEL BOUNTY.
Spanish Bounty
The Spanish language edition of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY has just been published by Salamandra, with this very striking cover – Paul Gauguin’s Matameo (Landscape With Peacocks).
Tesco Book Club
This month’s Tesco Book Club book of the month is MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY.
The novel is being sold through Tesco at a special price and the edition contains some additonal material, including an article I wrote on the writing of the novel and an excerpt from the opening chapter of THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE. Further material on the book can also be read on the Tesco Book Club website.
New Novel Published Today
My seventh novel, THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE, is published today. Here’s what it’s about:
Russia, 1915: At the age of 16, Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin’s bullet intended for the heart of a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is instantly proclaimed a hero. Before the week is out, his life as the son of a peasant farmer is changed forever when he is escorted to St Petersburg to take up his new position – as bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II.
Sixty-five years later, visiting his wife Zoya as she lies dying in a London hospital, memories of the life they have lived together flood his mind. Their marriage, while tender, has been marked by tragedy, the loss of loved ones, and experiences of exile that neither can forget.
“The House of Special Purpose” is a novel about a young man ripped from an impoverished home and thrust into the heart of a dying empire. Privy to the secrets of Nicholas and Alexandra, the machinations of Rasputin and the events which led to the final collapse of the autocracy, Georgy is a witness and participant in a drama which will echo down the century, both publicly and privtaely. For his story is also one of a marriage riven by a husband finds it impossible to live in the present and a wife unable to reconcile herself with the past. Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, the novel moves from revolutionary St Petersburg to Paris after the First World War, and from London during the Blitz to the eastern coast of Finland during the 1980s, before returning to a quiet hospital bed where Georgy and Zoya’s story must finally be 
resolved.
The first review of the novel, published in The Times last week, called it “absorbing and richly satisfying.”
Today also sees the publication of the paperback edition of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. When it was published in 2008, the novel received terrific reviews: “enthralling… storytelling at its most accomplished… stands comparison with William Golding’s Rites of Passage” (The Independent); “a remarkable and compelling piece of storytelling” (The Irish Times); “A cracking adventure story” (The Sunday Tribune). The novel has gone on to be published in Spain, Serbia, Canada, Holland, Catalan, America, and Australia and editions are forthcoming in Galicia, Brazil, Greece, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Norway and China.
THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE can be purchased from Amazon, Waterstone’s and Borders; MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY can also be purchased there, there and there.
Mutiny USA & Canada
- USA
- Canada
Two separate North American editions of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY are published today in hardcover.
In the United States, the novel is published by Thomas Dunne Books under the title MUTINY: A NOVEL OF THE BOUNTY and you can order a copy from Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, or just get down to your local bookstore and pick one up.
In Canada, it’s published by Doubleday. You can get a copy from Amazon too.
Last Day in Spain
After almost two weeks doing promotional work for both the film, EL NINO CON EL PIJAMA DE RAYAS, and the novel, MOTIN EN LA BOUNTY, in San Sebastian, Barcelona and Madrid, I finally pack my bags today – not for home quite yet but for Switzerland and the last stop on this tour.
I’ve had a wonderful time in Spain, and the fact that we had this weekend free to enjoy ourselves in the capital has been a definite bonus. And the good news as I leave is that the film, which opened in Spain on Friday, is the no.1 film at the Spanish box office. Couldn’t resist this photo at a busy Madrid plaza over the weekend - check out the film posters behind me!
Catalan Bounty
The Catalan edition of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, titled MOTI AL BOUNTY, is now in bookstores. I spent yesterday, the day of publication, in Barcelona with my Catlan publisher, Grup 62, conducting interviews and signing copies of the book for stores (left).
And all over Spain, where I’ve been for the last 10 days, the film version of Boy, EL NINO CON EL PIJAMA DE RAYAS, goes on release today. The novel has been the bestselling novel in Spain in both 2007 and 2008 so hopefully audiences will be equally receptive to Mark’s powerful film.
More Bounty Interviews
Still in Madrid, where four more of the interviews for MOTIN EN LA BOUNTY run in today’s newspapers and are available on-line:
The El Mundo photo to the left was taken in London a couple of weeks ago in the middle of 2 long days of international press interviews for the film. Don’t I look cheerful?
