Jennifer Barclay Books: Agency Clients

Ishbel Holmes (World Bike Girl)

https://ishbelholmes.com/
http://worldbikegirl.com/
ME, MY BIKE AND A STREET DOG CALLED LUCY
US (Velo) and UK (Bradt); translation rights: Velo
Daily Record: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/incredible-story-street-dog-changed-12991387
Herald Scotland: http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/16381693.adventure-cyclist-ishbel-holmes-on-how-rescuing-a-street-dog-saved-her-own-life/
BBC Radio Coventry: interview with Ishbel begins at 2.15
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06g2yrt
Milton Keynes Citizen:
https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/world-bike-girl-and-a-special-friend-to-visit-milton-keynes-today-1-8605011

Catherine Burns

'an insidious, creepy novel, with a slow burn' - Literary Hub, '6 Crime Must-Reads'
'Burns blurs the line between crime fiction and horror' - Publishers Weekly
'the reader is unable to stop turning the pages' - The Bookbag
Debut novel published October 2017 in English by Scout Press (literary imprint of Gallery/Simon & Schuster, editor Alison Callahan) in the US, Legend Press in the UK and Hachette in Australia. Born in Manchester, Catherine graduated from Cambridge and worked as a bond trader in the City of London before studying film in Moscow and teaching film theory at Salford University.
http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=The_Visitors_by_Catherine_Burns

https://www.lostintherain.com/2017/10/book-review-the-visitors-by-catherine-burns/

Lizzie Carr
PADDLING BRITAIN (Bradt)
Britain's best-known paddle boarder reveals the best places in Britain to SUP, kayak and canoe
October 2018

http://lizzieoutside.co.uk/

Caspar Craven

www.casparcraven.com
WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS:

How one family went beyond their comfort zone and sailed around the world
(Adlard Coles/Bloomsbury US and UK, spring 2018; audio edition - Audible)

CNN:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/30/sport/sailing-round-world-3-kids-spt/index.html

'a wonderful tale of a family that created a dream and made it come true' - the boat galley
https://theboatgalley.com/cruising-stories-where-the-magic-happens-craven-family/
'freedom from the pressures of modern life saved his marriage, and transformed his relationship with his kids' - The New York Post
https://nypost.com/2018/03/21/i-sailed-my-family-around-the-world-to-save-my-marriage/
Why 30 minutes with Caspar Craven could change your life: https://www.iod.com/news-campaigns/news/articles/Why-30-minutes-with-Caspar-Craven-could-change-your-life

Ash Dykes

http://ashdykes.com/
MISSION POSSIBLE: A Decade of Living Dangerously published by Eye Books in the UK, Chinese rights sold to Shanghai Joint Publishing
Vietnamese rights sold to Saigon Books
https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/theredbulletin/ash-dykes-interview

Diane Esguerra

JUNKIE BUDDHA: a journey (2015, Eye Books)

www.junkiebuddha.com
'a raw and searingly honest account of love and loss, anger and grief and the search for meaning in despair... the prose is as colourful, finely woven and robust as a Peruvian rug' - David Hare, life coach

'I could not put it down... the most extraordinary book' - Jeni Barnet, BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3602837/New-probe-longstanding-sexual-abuse-claims-prep-school-bereaved-mother-spoke-Mail-Sunday.html

The Independent: http://ind.pn/1PGAnvW

Daily Mail Femail: http://dailym.ai/1PFadtD

'an inspiring and uplifting book about finding infinite value in the most intense and painful experience of profound loss' - Sandie Shaw

'I could not put this gripping travel memoir down' - Julia Stephenson, author

Steven Gauge

Stage adaptation of MY LIFE AS A HOOKER, Museum of Comedy, 2015

http://stevengauge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/five-stars-for-my-life-as-hooker-london.html

http://www.rhinorugby.com/uk/blog/3508/rhino-sponsors-outstanding-rugby-play/

MY LIFE AS A HOOKER: When a Middle-Aged Bloke Discovered Rugby

On Radio 4 explaining the rules of rugby:

https://soundcloud.com/plmrltd/steven-gauge-on-radio-4-the-rules-of-rugby-in-80-seconds

Shortlisted for the Sports Book of the Year Award

'charm, wit and intelligence and real insight' - Samira Ahmed

'If this is what a midlife crisis does for you, I want one' - Luke Benedict

'Steven Gauge is a supremely funny writer' - Toby Harnden

'engaging, interesting' - Meg Reid, Felixstowe Book Festival

http://stevengauge.blogspot.com

Elizabeth Gowing
UNLIKELY POSITIONS IN UNLIKELY PLACES: A Yoga Journey around Britain (2019)
Elizabeth is the author of four books about the Balkans: Travels in Blood and Honey, Edith and I, The Rubbish-Picker's Wife and The Silver Thread. She is a frequent lecturer to groups in the UK and a regular contributor to Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent. She has translated two books from Albanian to English and divides her time between Albania, the UK and Kosovo, where she co-founded the Ideas Partnership charity.

Sarah Outen

DARE TO DO
TAKING ON THE PLANET BY BIKE AND BOAT
Shortlisted for the Wanderlust Adventure Travel Book of the Year
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/sarah-outen-my-round-the-world-adventure-left-me-with-depression/
'When I first met her, I knew that Sarah was a very special person with fire in her belly... - Dame Ellen MacArthur
British adventurer Sarah Outen MBE endured extreme conditions in remote environments. She kayaked some of the most treacherous waters in the world and cycled across North America during one of the harshest winters on record. Sarah previously broke world records when she became the first woman and the youngest person to row solo across the Indian Ocean - the subject of her first book, A Dip in the Ocean. www.sarahouten.com

Brad Smith

Brad is the author of 7 previous novels, including ALL HAT, which was made into a feature film, and ONE-EYED JACKS, shortlisted for the Dashiell Hammet Award. http://www.bradsmithbooks.com/

'Brad Smith is a writer with lots of skill, lots of heart, lots of brains' --Richard Russo

'For such a furiously funny writer, Smith has great reserves of tenderness.' --The New York Times Book Review

'he's funny, poignant, evocative, and he tells a blistering tale.'--Dennis Lehane

'wonderfully wrought characters, delicious wit' - Publishers Weekly on Shoot the Dog

'a thoroughly charming hero' - Booklist on Shoot the Dog

John Xiros Cooper

THE STING OF THE WASP (Endeavour Press)
'With Sting of the Wasp, set in the mean streets of a profoundly troubled modern Athens, Cooper has created a character, the detective Panos Akritas, who will go straight into the annals of crime fiction.'
- Jack Todd, author of Taste of Metal, Sun Going Down and three more novels

Thom Wheeler

http://www.thomwheeler.net/