Publishing legend Patrick Janson-Smith joins us

Patrick Janson-Smith has joined forces with London-based digital publisher Apostrophe Books as editor-at-large. Former Transworld publisher Janson-Smith, who leaves HarperCollins as publisher of imprint Blue Door, said smaller outfits would be the ones “able to react most swiftly and imaginatively” to new challenges in a changing publishing landscape. Janson-Smith, who also recently became non-executive chairman […]

Sex, videotape and lots and lots of lies

Reality Boulevard by Melissa Jo Peltier, published by Apostrophe Books

New York Times bestseller Melissa Jo Peltier turns her attention to the brilliant, back-stabbing world of prime-time television in a wickedly funny new novel. Peltier has worked in entertainment for more than 20 years, making the darkly funny Reality Boulevard a true insider’s view of Hollywood and some of America’s biggest shows. In it, we see Oscar-winning producer […]

‘Funniest book ever written': front-page news

The Serial by Cyra McFadden, published by Apostrophe Books: re-published and front-page news

The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County became a global bestseller in the Seventies, hilariously skewering a self-obsessed age of  psycho-babble, meditation, zen jogging, pet psychiatry – and bucket-loads of organic granola. Now, to mark 35 years since it was first published, the novel is going on sale in e-book form for […]

Teen vampire sensation goes on sale

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VAMPIRE thriller Blood Prophecy: The Fated Three has gone on sale, with legions of e-reader owners sinking their teeth into the supernatural novel. The three-part e-book sees 17-year-old Selene Giovanni’s dull and lonely world change dramatically when a new student starts at her school. It turns out there is a lot more to the mysterious […]

The breathtaking Fingerless Gloves goes on sale

Fingerless Gloves, on sale now

FINGERLESS GLOVES, the prize-winning novel from New Yorker Nick Orsini, went on sale to e-book readers around the world today. The story, which won the prestigious Fiction Fast-Track new writing competition earlier this year, charts the most difficult night in 25-year-old Anton Duchamp’s life. When his best friend James Squire is mysteriously rushed to hospital, […]

Legendary war reporter joins Apostrophe Books

Michael Nicholson

THE HEART-WRENCHING true story of how legendary TV reporter Michael Nicholson smuggled an orphan out of war-ravaged Sarajevo is being released as an ebook to mark 20 years since her rescue. Natasha’s Story, which went on to become the award-winning film Welcome to Sarajevo, tells how Nicholson resolved to bring nine-year-old Natasha home to England […]

Apostrophe publishes online poetry sensation

JOHN LAVAN HAS long been one of the internet’s most prominent poets, with hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. Now, his poignant, funny and heartbreaking poetry has been turned into an e-book, with the launch of Familial: Selected Poems. More than 100 exceptional pieces of work have been hand-picked by the Yorkshireman across a […]

Third Sue Margolis classic comes to Apostrophe

SUE MARGOLIS‘S hilarious novel Neurotica is now available to Kindle, iPad and Kobo readers. It is the third chick-lit classic to go digital with Apostrophe Books. Hailed by People as “Bridget Jones’s Diary for the matrimonial set”, it tells the story of Anna Shapiro, a sex-starved journalist on a mission to find some fun after the ordeal of […]

Secret war in Laos revealed in The Ravens

THE INCREDIBLE true story of the daring US pilots who flew in the secret war in Laos is told today as The Ravens goes digital for the first time. Christopher Robbins‘s meticulously-researched work – hailed by Tom Clancy as “a book of outstanding integrity” – reveals the brutal truth about the men who served in […]

Fighter-jet thriller Angel, Archangel takes off

THE NICK COOK jet-fighter adventure Angel, Archangel went digital today, as the novel was made available for Kindle, Kobo and iPad e-readers. Set in the dying days of the Second World War, the thriller sees the Third Reich starting to crumble. However, the Russians have anything but peace on their minds. Two British spy pilots have uncovered Operation Archangel, […]