5 February 2010
Amazon UK now have a short blurb for Gerald Seymout's next novel, The Dealer and the Dead...
Eighteen years after the barbarous war with the Serbs that tore their communities apart, a group of Croatian villagers discover the identity of the Englishman who they believe betrayed them by welching on a deal to supply arms.
With revenge in sight at last, they hire a professional killer from London to track him down . . . but is the story as simple as they think?
A brilliant, bruising thriller, told in a unique way, about what happens when the hand of the past suddenly reaches out to the present - and is holding a gun.
Source: www.amazon.co.uk
23 January 2010
It's a long way off but Amazon UK are listing a new Gerald Seymour novel to be published toward the end of the year.
It's presently titled The Dealer and the Dead and will be published by Hodder & Stoughton on 14 Oct 2010.
No cover or plot details yet and I wouldn't be surprised if the title changes before then.
In the meantime you can find the hardback listing at www.amazon.co.uk.
20 December 2009
Amazon UK have put up a cover for the paperback edition of Gerald Seymour's new novel, The Collaborator. It's due for publication by Hodder paperbacks on 29 April 2010. The cover is similar to the hardback design with the main changes being a large black area below the title and the addition of colour to the figures at the top. Indeed they have added (I assume) Immacolata Borelli to the picture.
No word yet on his next book or if Hodder will be reprinting the back catalog.
11 October 2009
I've added my review of The Collaborator to the site. You can read my comments here.
20 September 2009
There's a travel article called "Naples, Italy: My kind of town" in the Telegraph today. "Gerald Seymour favours Naples, a city with 'a borrowed time existence that shapes its character’." You can read the article at www.telegraph.co.uk.
17 September 2009
The Collaborator is now available in bookshops. I spotted it tonight in Tescos for £8.49. Over in Sainsburys it was £9.99. I ordered my copy from Amazon earlier in the week for £8.49 so I'll just have to wait a little longer!
6 September 2009
I've updated my Kingfisher page with a longer review of the book.
And here's a reminder for The Collaborator, published in less than two weeks!
12 August 2009
I've scanned in a few more covers. Here we have the 1991 TV tie-in cover for Red Fox featuring John Hurt and Jane Birkin plus the David Scutt covers for A Song in the Morning, Condition Black and The Heart of Danger.
9 August 2009
I've added a few scans of Gerald Seymour's early UK hardbacks to the appropriate pages.
Here are The Glory Boys, Kingfisher, Red Fox, The Contract, Archangel and In Honour Bound.
Update...
And now here are six of the 1990 reprint paperback covers. Most of the covers for this series were by David Scutt.
The books shown below are The Glory Boys, Kingfisher, Red Fox, The Contract, Archangel and Field of Blood.
8 August 2009
I've been doing a lot of work on a redesign of the page and it's nearing completion. Hopefully you will agree it looks nifty enough.
7 July 2009
Amazon UK have just posted the cover of The Collaborator. Publication is now set for 17 September 2009.
I've also just started a book blog thing at bookswhatilike.blogspot.com.
14 January 2009
Details of the next Gerald Seymour novel are on Amazon UK. It is titled The Collaborator and will be published by a new publisher, Hodder & Stoughton, on 1 October 2009.
One call will change her life, and will start a war.
She is an Italian accountancy student in London, and her boyfriend is Eddie who teaches at a language school. But the prime reason Immacolata Borelli came to Britain was to look after her gangster brother, wanted for multiple murders back home in Naples.
For the Borelli clan are major players in the Camorra, a crime network more ruthless even than the Sicilian Mafia.
Mario Castrolami is a senior Carabinieri investigator of the Camorra, and has dedicated his career to destroying the corruption and violence of the clans. When Immacolata phones from London and tells him she is prepared to collaborate with justice - to betray her own family - he understands she is setting in motion a terrifying and unpredictable series of events.
The Borellis will not lose their criminal empire without a vicious fight. They will use any tactic and any person in a brutal struggle to keep control of their territory in the city, and to prevent her from giving evidence against them.
Even Eddie, and Eddie's life.
Source: Amazon UK
17 October 2008
Timebomb is now out in paperback in the UK. It's in the Tescos chart and in the Waterstones 3 for 2 offer so you can get a good deal. Also it's cheap on Amazon UK and they no longer charge postage on orders of £5. There's a link to Amazon UK to the right.
The paperback seems to have a new afterword by Gerald Seymour about Soribor that is not in the hardback.
Also the inside cover shows that at least three of the earlier novels will be getting new style covers to match the latest books. They are The Jouryneyman Tailor, Field of Blood and A Song in the Morning. I don't have any images of them for the page yet. At least we finally get to see what Cathy Parker looks like!
16 August 2008
Ross sent me a link to an article that mentions that Gerald Seymour is working on a new novel called The Collaborator.
Veteran thriller writer Gerald Seymour is the latest author to move to literary agency Curtis Brown. Seymour, who was previously represented by Michael Sissons at PFD, has now signed up with agent Jonathan Lloyd.
The move follows that of two other leading writers who have also lately transferred to Curtis Brown. John Le Carré, previously with David Higham Associates, is now represented by Jonny Geller; Le Carré has a new novel, A Most Wanted Man, out from Hodder in September.
Lisa Jewell also moved to Jonny Geller, leaving Judith Murdoch, prior to signing a three-book deal with Kate Elton at Century last month in a transfer from her previous publisher, Penguin.
Lloyd declined to comment on the reasons for Seymour's move but said: "I've known Gerald since day one, I was at Collins when he published Harry's Game. He's an old mate and it's a great thrill for me to represent him. He's at the peak of his game with a brilliant new novel, The Collaborator, and we've both got ambitions to drive him still higher here and around the world."
Lloyd added that he was currently negotiating a new contract with Seymour's publisher Transworld.
Source: www.thebookseller.com
26 June 2008
I've added my review of Timebomb and also a new review of Home Run.
1 June 2008
Time Bomb is now out in hardback and trade paperback. Shop around and you'll find a good deal. I got my copy in Waterstones. Half-price. And signed! Online your best bet is probably Amazon UK.
I'll put my review up after I've read it.
29 May 2008
Just a quick reminder that Time Bomb is out in hardback next Monday 2 June 2008. (It's been a great time for reading thrillers with the new James Bond novel out this week.)
Here's the longer "blurb" from Amazon...
Fired from a top-secret Soviet nuclear base in the chaotic last days of the communist regime, a KGB security man steals a suitcase bomb, smuggles it out and buries it in his backyard. Sixteen years later he’s going to put it on the market. It’s as lethal as on the day it was manufactured – capable of effectively wiping out a major city.
Discarded, abandoned, resentful, the Russian will sell to the highest bidder – in this case, a Mafia gangster who has no conscience for the consequences. The exchange will take place in a remote sector of the Polish–Belarus frontier. The chance of it being intercepted will depend on the skill, and luck, of a small MI6 team, who have only the sketchiest idea of what’s going on – and on the nerve of an undercover police officer who has infiltrated the criminal gang.
But can that officer be trusted to deliver? He is under the control of a hugely charismatic gang leader, isolated and in great danger. An MI6 psychologist predicts the risk of him switching allegiance mid-operation. If he does, and the bomb gets through, the damage would be incalculable. With the clock ticking down to the handover, the MI6 team must find their man and protect him from himself – at all costs…
Timebomb is a thriller of this moment when the world has never been more under threat and the authorities never less sure of who they are fighting. Both an edge-of-the-seat race against time and a long, cold look at where we are now, it takes the reader out into the real world and shows who is really running the show …
8 March 2008
Click on the image below to see a larger image of the cover of Time Bomb.
23 February 2008
Amazon UK have posted a small image of the cover of Time Bomb.
