#matthewdeabaitua

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Self & I the highly acclaimed memoir by Matthew De Abaitua is now out in paperback.  Available in all good bookshops.

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Self & I charts Matthew De Abaitua’s experience living and working as Will Self’s assistant in a remote cottage in Suffolk in the 1990s. Self is a newly-divorced enfant terrible of the British literary scene. De Abaitua is an eager young writer keen to learn from one of his literary heroes. The memoir is a frank and often very funny account of a remarkable time in Britain and British literature. Editor-at-large Scott Pack acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding serial and audiobook) from Sarah Such at Sarah Such Literary Agency.

Announced at Frankfurt Book Fair 2017, congratulations to Matthew De Abaitua whose memoir Self & I - a Memoir of Literary Ambition has been acquired by Scott Pack, Editor-In-Chief of Eye Books.

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Here’s the cover for The Art of Camping, @mdeabaitua’s seminal and wonderful book about the history and practice of sleeping under the stars published by Penguin.

It’s a must-read before every music festival and camping season. Here, too, is the Korean cover with a slightly more sophisticated tent on the cover.

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Festive Robot Fiction

Barnes and Noble celebrate Robot Christmas Day 12 with an original short story commissioned from Arthur C Clarke-shortlisted @mdeabaitua, author of The Red Men and highly acclaimed IF THEN just published by @angryrobotbooks

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/robot-christmas-day-12-matthew-de-abaitua/

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Dear Teen Me, Before we begin. Personal hygiene. You’ve been raised with the personal hygiene routine of a Depression-era slum. Baths once a week and then, when a shower is finally installed, showe...

In the week of publication of his much-antipated new novel IF THEN, novelist Matthew De Abaitua writes a letter to his teenage self about the big stuff of life.