http://www.windmill-books.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:29:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are delighted to announce the publication of Angelmaker, the new novel from the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway. Featuring a cast of heroes and villains, men and women of high virtue and low morals (sometimes both simultaneously), Angelmaker is the story of a mobster's son and ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2012/02/angelmaker-by-nick-harkaway-published-in-william-heinemann-hardback-2nd-february/ Prepare to be amazed by this fantastic novel by the acclaimed author Marina Endicott. Scheduled to be published as a Windmill paperback in September, but if you can't wait until then, the beautiful hardback edition is available now. Little Women meets Water for Elephants - The Little Shadows tells the story ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2012/02/thelittleshadows/ Windmill is delighted to be publishing The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker, available from 2 February 2012.   For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2012/01/the-sugar-barons/ Nick Harkaway, acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, brings us another propulsively entertaining literary thriller, featuring an octogenarian spy, a mobster's son with a heart of gold, and an extremely ugly dog. Angelmaker is published in February 2012, but we are giving Windmill Books followers a chance to win exclusive proof ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2011/12/competition-win-proof-of-angelmaker/ We're delighted to announce that The Submission by Amy Waldman has been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2011. The winner will be announced at a ceremony on December 1st. The full shortlist is: Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman (Bloomsbury) The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee (Fourth Estate) Down The Rabbit ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2011/11/the-submission-shortlisted-for-the-guardian-first-book-award-2011/ Helen Rappaport will talk about her new book, Magnificent Obsession, at Blackwell Bookshop in Oxford. More info http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2011/10/helen-rappaport-magnificent-obsession-event/ To celebrate the release of Douglas Coupland and Graham Roumieu's fantastically twisted Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People, Windmill Books, in association with Waterstone's, are giving you the chance to win an exclusive sampler of the first two chapters! All you have to do is answer the following question: What is ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2011/10/a-highly-inappropriate-halloween/ There's a chill in the air, the leaves and turning, so don your favourite pair of fingerless gloves and join us for another edition of the Windmill Friday Feeling. Will Self's writing room has been on the blog before, and today I read his amazing piece The Trouble With my Blood. ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2011/10/windmill-friday-feeling-2/ ‘The Prix Goncourt committee took a record hour and a half to elect The Map and the Territory the winner of France's highest literary honour ... Readers ... are unlikely to quibble with the decision.  Houellebecq's fifth book is not only his best for years but very likely his best ever, ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2011/10/acclaim-for-the-map-and-the-territory-by-michel-houellebecq/ Zoë Nielsen was just like any other ten-year-old walking to school, not knowing that a chance encounter with Thurman Hayes would lead to her abduction and imprisonment in a converted nuclear bunker, 4,000 miles away, beneath a remote ranch house in Arizona. Enslaved in her underground tomb, deprived of food ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2011/09/forgetting-zoe-reading-group-guide/