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International Literary Properties acquires intellectual property in four international children’s authors: Martin Waddell, Adele Geras, Gianna Marino and Sheila Burnford. International Literary Properties (ILP), the global company that invests in, acquires, manages, and enhances literary estates, is excited to announce the acquisition of intellectual property in children’s and young adult authors: Martin Waddell, Adèle Geras, […]

Q&A session hosted by Adèle Geras "I decided to rename it because Rose Doran had changed, or my understanding of her had changed." Berlie Doherty writes novels, plays, stories, poetry and opera libretti and is translated into over twenty languages. She has written over 60 books,, mostly for children and young adults, Several of her […]

Review by Adele Geras - "Sparkling with wit and shot through with sadness: a winning combination." (Before I begin , I'd like to thank Michael Arditti for sharing these pictures with me. I'm afraid that, probably owing to my own technological incompetence, I was unable to upload all of them straight to this blog, so […]

Reviewed by Adèle Geras, in conversation with guest Sally Christie. "We agreed we’d learned a huge amount but also that we’d laughed aloud often." Sally Christie has been a children's book editor and a writer of young fiction. She has also been a goat keeper and a cheese maker, both of which were a lot […]

Cogito Books Book Club has reviewed Hope Adams’ Book, Dangerous Women We enjoyed a wonderful discussion of Dangerous Women by Hope Adams at our Cogito Book Group. We were all inspired by the fact that the author built such a compelling, complex narrative around the true events leading to the creation of the Rajah Quilt. […]

My novel, DANGEROUS WOMEN came out in UK on Thursday 4th March. It's published by Penguin Michael Joseph and here are screenshots of the Amazon.co.uk page. Reviews ‘Fine story of suspense, sisterhood and society, reflecting the harshness of women's lives and their desperation to survive in a world that has scant regard for their wellbeing' Daily […]

The photo above shows the UK and USA covers of my new book, Dangerous Women. But sharp-eyed readers will see that the book is coming out under my pseudonym, Hope Adams.  I decided to publish under  a pseudonym for many reasons. The first was: this book is not like any of my others. It’s a […]

There will be very little by way of illustration in this post. I am unsure of what's in copyright and what's not, so unless I'm quite certain of  not contravening any laws, I'm going to leave this piece with no pictures of the very thing I'm writing about: The Rajah Quilt.  Below is a photograph of the cover […]

The novel is in rude good health. Millions of people all over the world buy novels, read them, discuss them, take them out of libraries, pounce on them in charity shops, borrow them from friends and discover them on Kindles. Money is being made by lots of publishers and even a few writers. There are […]

The cover of Tara Westover's Educated is striking. The passage quoted on the back of the book tells you something of what this memoir is about: the author's journey from Idaho to a PhD from Cambridge, a path strewn with astonishing descriptions of life in her extraordinary family. It also demonstrates some of the power […]