Nibs

or news in briefs…

A new column that dips succinctly into the lives of 26 members. If you’d like to feature in next month’s, please get in touch via newsletter@26.org.uk.

Jamie Jauncey has finally found a publisher for his fourth novel. Macmillan (Young Picador) will publish ‘Blackriggs’ in summer 2007. Originally written for adults, it’s set in a troubled Scotland of the near future, and Jamie is now frantically re-casting the characters as teenagers to meet a June 2006 delivery deadline; Roger Horberry has been celebrating the fact some of his band’s music features in the new Bruce Willis film ‘Lucky Number Slevin’; Sarah McCartney is just back from teaching yoga in Caracas and is now writing her 39th issue of the ‘Lush Times’; John Simmons has just returned from Singapore, where he has been giving lectures and spreading the good word about 26; Jim Davies scored the front cover of ‘Design Week’ with an article on writers who illustrate their own work; Mike Reed has returned to the fray after two weeks’ jury service; Rishi Dastidar has given a lecture on brands and brand building to students on the TeachFirst programme at Imperial College, London; Tim Rich has been writing annual reports for Smith & Nephew, MFI and Mears, and wandering the byways of deepest Sussex preparing for his chapter in the next 26 book, ‘Common Ground’.

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