Published October 6, 2017 by Natasha Onwuemezi Bloomsbury has acquired Putney, a new novel by Sofka Zinovieff described as a “modern-day Lolita”. Alexandra Pringle, global group editor-in-chief bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in Putney from Caroline Dawnay at United Agents. It has also been sold to Jonathan Burnham at HarperCollins in the US and Lynn Henry at
Due for release 3rd November 2016 Vintage Published 3rd November 2016 448 Pages Penguin Random House Company. © 1995 – 2016 Penguin Books Ltd. Registered number: 861590 England. Registered office: 80 Strand, London, WC2R ORL UK. Read more at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1092025/the-mad-boy-lord-berners-my-grandmother-and-me/#HEBkckruJ6z61T4M.99
“Despite momentous changes recently, Sofka Zinovieff’s Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens (Granta), published in 2004, remains the best account of today’s Greece, with sharp insights into nationalism, terrorism and the Orthodox church.” Michael Kerr, travel writer 25 JULY 2016 Newer offerings A single-volume primer? Try A Concise History of Greece (1) by Richard Clogg (Cambridge University Press),
The Sunday Telegraph November 22 2015 Alan Titchmarsh: I have found something to fill the Downton Abbey gap LORD BERNERS CREDIT: REX With Downton Abbey to make just one final appearance atChristmas, a chap must look elsewhere for his early 20th-century fix. I have found mine in a captivating book called The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and
The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me Talk and book Signing September 25th 15:00 Venue:Rye Arts Festival Address: Lamb House Marquee, West Street, Rye TN31 7ES Ticket Price £12 Tickets will be available to Friends from 20th July 2015 and the general public from 3rd August 2015 Friends are entitled to 10% discount
7 pm, Thursday 28th May 2015 Vout-O-Reenee’s art club 30 Prescot Street, London E1 8BB Mad About The Boy – Sofka Zinovieff on the naughty Lord Berners Set Entrance: £5.00 Members Free Come and enjoy an evening of pure Vout-O-Reenee’s indulgence as we listen open mouthed about Lord
Recent Books of Particular Interest May 1st 2015 SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW Editors’ Choice MAY 1, 2015 THE MAD BOY, LORD BERNERS, MY GRANDMOTHER AND ME: An Aristocratic Family, a High-Society Scandal and an Extraordinary Legacy, by Sofka Zinovieff. (Harper/HarperCollins, $35.)A highly eccentric clan in 1930s and ’40s England. MY STRUGGLE: Book 4, by Karl Ove
“Red Princess” Book Presentation by Sofka Zinovieff, & “My Russian Roots & Childhood Memories” by Peter Zinovieff.” Thursday, 4th June 2015, 7pm Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge (tbc) Entrance: £3; CamRuSS members free. From The Guardian Book Review: Sofka Zinovieff’s grandmother was a White Russian aristocrat in flight from