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Faber to publish Cowell biography
15.12.11 | Benedicte Page
Faber is to publish a "definitive" biography of entertainment mogul Simon Cowell by journalist Tom Bower, whose biography of Bernie Ecclestone came out with the publisher earlier this year.
Sweet Revenge: The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell will be out in May 2012, and is "the result of hundreds of hours of unprecedented access to Cowell, plus direct contributions from his many supporters and rivals", Faber said.
UK and Commonwealth rights were acquired by publisher Stephen Page from Jonathan Lloyd of Curtis Brown, with Angus Cargill set to edit. The book will be published simultaneously in the US by Ballantine Books at Random House.
Sweet Revenge is said to offer a "detailed insider's account" of Cowell's rise to fame "and all of the controversial highs and lows along the way as he settles scores with rivals", with "juicy details, hard-to-get interviews and never-before-revealed facts".
Page said: “Sweet Revenge is the biography for anyone interested in music, pop culture and business, and the millions of 'X Factor' and Simon Cowell fans.”
Bower, a former producer and reporter for the BBC, is the author of 19 books, including biographies of Robert Maxwell, Mohamed Fayed, Gordon Brown, Richard Branson and Conrad Black.
Cowell's own memoir, I Don't Mean to be Rude But . . ., was published by Ebury in 2003, selling 106,000 copies to date through Nielsen BookScan.
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How I missed this story I do not know, but surely TS Eliot is turning in his grave now that his publisher has published the trashy Simon Cowell bio, serialised in the Murdoch owned Sun and Sunday Times. And I noted that anyone passing by the Faber stand at LBF would have had no idea that Faber had published this book, no poster, no copies on display, nothing. Surely Faber is doing well enough under Stephen Page's fine leadership that they do not have to stoop to this level of publishing to finance the good publishing they are known for. I freely admit the fact that our small agency's authors never get a look in from Faber, in spite of the quality writing that these writers produce, and that seeing Faber publish a celeb bio such as this just makes this fact all the more frustrating and sad.
And while I am ranting, I watch in dismay as publishers, like lemmings, leap on the Fifty Shades of Grey bandwagon, commissioning new erotic fiction or reviving dormant imprints.
This is not the industry I love at its best.
How I missed this story I do not know, but surely TS Eliot is turning in his grave now that his publisher has published the trashy Simon Cowell bio, serialised in the Murdoch owned Sun and Sunday Times. And I noted that anyone passing by the Faber stand at LBF would have had no idea that Faber had published this book, no poster, no copies on display, nothing. Surely Faber is doing well enough under Stephen Page's fine leadership that they do not have to stoop to this level of publishing to finance the good publishing they are known for. I freely admit the fact that our small agency's authors never get a look in from Faber, in spite of the quality writing that these writers produce, and that seeing Faber publish a celeb bio such as this just makes this fact all the more frustrating and sad.
And while I am ranting, I watch in dismay as publishers, like lemmings, leap on the Fifty Shades of Grey bandwagon, commissioning new erotic fiction or reviving dormant imprints.
This is not the industry I love at its best.