US edition published by HarperCollins, August 21 2018
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Garden Museum Literary Festival 2018
Delighted to be speaking at the inaugural Literary Festival of London’s wonderful Garden Museum. Sunday 8th July 2018. It may sound unlikely, but I’ll discuss gardens I’ve written about in Greece, Russia, Oxfordshire and #PUTNEY Literary Festival Spotlight: Sofka Zinovieff
Preview of Bloomsbury’s cover for Putney – out July 2018
The Bookseller: Bloomsbury signs ‘modern-day Lolita’
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
The Mad Boy in paperback, from Vintage. Out 3 November 2016
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
Telegraph’s 12 Best Books about Greece
“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),
“Something to fill the Downton Abbey gap”
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
Rye Arts Festival
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
Vout-O-Reenee’s, London
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