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Saturday 5th July 2008. Marina Fiorato's wonderful summer read The Glassblower of Murano is still topping the charts. Find out more about Marina at her website at www.marinafiorato.com. Meanwhile, we'd like to draw your attention to Willie Mackenzie's excellent first Beautiful Special for us, Stop The Whaling - if you thought the slaughter of whales had either slowed or stopped, you're wrong on both counts. Willie is an oceans campaigner at Greenpeace www.greenpeace.org. At the end of the month, Bill Drummond's fascinating and compulsive mix of memoir and manifesto, 17, is launched. For anyone who cares about music and the future of our collective culture, this really is unmissable. And if you're planning to go to the Edinburgh Festival, our author Christopher Rush will be reading from the magisterial Will on August 11th - the paperback is out in September.

Beautiful Books has sister companies working in other media. If you're starting to consider listening to books as well as reading them, take a look at our new audio download site www.beautifulsounds.co.uk, directed by ex-One Word Radio guru Paul Kent. There are some cracking titles on there to download straight onto your mp3. And Jenny Stanley-Clarke is launching our new music business Download Music www.d-music.co.uk this month with our first artist, Charlene, who appeared on Radio 4's Woman's Hour yesterday: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/01/2008_27_fri.shtml Charlene 's story, from being the first white woman signed to Motown to today, will be published by Beautiful in November.

 

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