‘Tis the season for agency authors in December.
George Harrison‘s debut novel Season, received high praise in the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday.
The Telegraph’s Declan Ryan said, ‘Harrison feels – and captures – this world rather well. We’re served the recognisable cocktail of frustrated tenderness, zealotry and madness that we induce when we outsource our happiness to millionaires in leisure-wear.‘
Sticking with the newspapers, Mira Harrison, author of the One in Three, was reviewed in the New Zealand Listener, the Otago Daily Times, interviewed on the podcast Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature, and was the Book of the Day in the New Zealand Herald.
Mary Novakovich received a mention in The Guardian for her audiobook version of My Family and Other Enemies. A blend of memoir and travelogue, this vivid portrait of Lika in central Croatia tells of a family and Croatian region steeped in culture and tumultuous history. Read by the author.
Fellow travel writer Ros Belford, saw her book Children of the Volcano picked out by Wanderlust as one of the books of the year.
‘the author – fresh from a break-up – relocates to Sicily to give her daughters a childhood to remember, and herself a new go at life. What follows falls into the ‘inspirational’ bracket of books about overcoming the odds, though it paints a portrait of island life that will have travellers intrigued.‘
Last but not least, Rikki Stein‘s memoir, Moving Music, continues to generate coverage. This month a review in AfroPop Worldwide, and an accompanying interview. An audiobook version, read by the author is coming soon.
Mark LeVine, longtime contributor to Afropop Worldwide said, ‘While this book will no doubt inspire musicians and fans who already love these genres, we can hope it also inspires a new generation of behind-the-scenes forces in the business, who can help move the music, the artists who create and perform it, and the industry people who more often than not hinder if not outright ruin it, back to a foundation of the Underground Spiritual Game that has always animated the most powerful, creative and at least for a time, successful pop music.‘
Songlines also has picked the book as one it its ‘Books of the Year‘, saying ‘Rikki was also crucial to the success of the musicians of Joujouka, that extraordinary village of Moroccan musicians. And then there are the stories about the Grateful Dead, Guinea’s Les Ballet Africaines, the ever-courageous Ugandan singer Bobi Wine, and more. A great read.‘
Here’s to 2025!
Cull & Co. Literary Agency Ltd 