Bello has announced a deal with the Gregory & Company authors’ agency to publish a selection of titles from their highly sought-after crime fiction backlist.
Bello, Pan Macmillan’s digital imprint, will publish titles by Jo Bannister, Eileen Dewhurst, Robert Barnard and Natasha Cooper this autumn. All titles will be available in ebook and print-on-demand (POD) editions. The books will include titles from Robert Barnard’s Charlie Peace and Perry Trethowan series, Jo Bannister’s books set in Castlemere and Natasha Cooper’s Willow King series of books.
Jane Gregory of Gregory & Company comments:
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It is wonderful that the backlists of four of our valued out of print authors will be available to new readers. We are excited by the opportunities Bello are providing and the authors are thrilled.’’
A year on from the launch of Bello at Frankfurt Book Fair 2011, the imprint has brought a number of classic authors back into print, including Gerald Durrell, Vita Sackville-West, Francis Durbridge and Eva Ibbotson. Bestselling authors on the Bello list include Lillian Beckwith, Gerald Durrell and Francis Durbridge.
A key focus for the list has been rediscovering lost classics of the British crime genre. Paul Winterton, David Williams and Josephine Bell are just some of the authors who have been made available in ebook and print on demand formats.
The Bello: Best of British Crime omnibus was released earlier this year, featuring titles by Andrew Garve, Francis Durbridge and David Williams.
280 titles by 28 authors have been published to date and Bello plans to release a further 100 titles this year.They are also in the process of selecting‘hero’ titles for each Bello author to allow readers to sample a book that is typical of that particular writer. All hero titles will be given an individual cover design.
The Passenger has been selected as the hero title for Francis Durbridge.
James Long, Editorial Director, Digital, has just been appointed to manage Bello, taking over the role from Sara Lloyd and Jeremy Trevathan.
James Long comments:
“Over the past year, we have brought a number of iconic writers back into print through Bello, so I am very much looking forward to managing this innovative imprint. We are fully committed to developing the list and the number of authors we publish, which is why we are delighted to announce this partnership with Gregory & Company. They have an impressive backlist of crime authors who fit perfectly with the Bello list and we look forward to working with them to introduce these books to a new generation of readers.”
For more information, please contact
Lorraine McGee at Four Colman Getty
lorraine.mcgee@fourcolmangetty.com
020 3023 9926
Bello
The Bello digital imprint has been launched to bring long out-of- print books by iconic authors to a new readership in the 21st century. These books are published in digital format and all titles are also made available in Print on Demand editions.
Gregory & Company
Gregory & Company is a dynamic literary agency that handles fiction. They are particularly known for representing some of the most successful authors of outstanding crime novels and thrillers, though they have expanded their list to include the best of commercial, upmarket and historical fiction.
Jo Bannister
Jo Bannister started her career as a journalist after leaving school at sixteen to work on a local weekly newspaper. Shortlisted for several prestigious awards, she was editor of the County Down Spectator for some years before leaving to pursue her writing full time. She is based in Northern Ireland.
Books to be published by Bello: Echoes of Lies, Changelings, Broken Lines, No Birds Sing, Sins of the Heart, A Bleeding of Innocents, The Primrose Switchback, The Primrose Convention, The Lazarus Hotel, A Cactus Garden, Death and Other Lovers, The Winter Plain, The Going Down of the Sun, Gilgamesh, Mosaic, The Matrix and Death in High Places
Robert Barnard
Robert Barnard had a distinguished career as an academic before he became a full-time writer. He is a writer of great versatility, from the light and satirical tone of his earlier books to the more psychological preoccupations of recent ones. Under the name of Bernard Bastable he has also written novels featuring Mozart as a detective, and is the author of many short stories. He has created several detectives, including Perry Trethowan and Charlie Peace. Robert Barnard was the winner of the 2003 CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for a lifetime of achievement. He lives in Leeds.
Books to be published by Bello: Death and the Princess, The Missing Bronte, Bodies, Death in Purple Prose, Unholy Dying , Touched by the Dead , Masters of the House„ Scandal in Belgravia, A City of Strangers, At Death’s Door, Death and the Chaste Apprentice, A Fatal Attachment„ A Hovering of Vultures, The Bad Samaritan, No Place of Safety, The Corpse at the Haworth, Tandoori, The Bones in the Attic, The Skeleton in the Grass, Political Suicide , Disposal of the Living, A Corpse in a Gilded Cage, Out of the Blackout, Little Victims, Mother’s Boys, Death in a Cold Climate, Posthumous Papers, Unruly Son, Blood Brotherhood, Death on the High Cs, A Little Local Murder, Death of an Old Goat, Dead, Mr Mozart and Too Many Notes Mr Mozart
Eileen Dewhurst
Eileen Dewhurst, author of numerous books, was born in Liverpool and read English at Oxford. She held various university administrative posts and also had a spell working for the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce before becoming a freelance writer in 1964.
Books to be published by Bello: Alias the Enemy, Death in Candie Gardens, Trio in Three Flats , Drink This, Curtain Fall , After the Ball , The Innocence of Guilt, The Sleeper , A Nice Little Business , A Private Prosecution , Playing Safe , There was a Little Girl , The House that Jack Built and Whoever I Am.
Natasha Cooper
Natasha Cooper lives in London and writes for a variety of newspapers and journals. She was Chairman of the Crime Writer’s Association in 2000/01 and regularly speaks at crime-writing conferences on both sides of theAtlantic. Natasha is the author of the Trish Maguire series and also writes novels as Clare Layton, Daphne Wright and Kate Hatfield.
Books to be published by Bello: Festering Lilies, Poison Flowers, Bloody Roses, Bitter Herbs, Rotten Apples, Fruiting Bodies, Sour Grapes, Fault Lines Distant Kingdom, The Longest Winter, Parrot Cage, Never Such Innocence, Dreams of Another Day, The Tightrope Walker, Marsh Light, Angels Alone and Drowning in Honey.