The Italian edition of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is published this week by my Italian publisher Rizzoli. It’s called IL RAGAZZO DEL BOUNTY.
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Italian Bounty
Posted in Mutiny On The Bounty, Publications on October 12, 2009 by johnboyneSpanish Bounty
Posted in Mutiny On The Bounty, Publications on June 29, 2009 by johnboyne
The Spanish language edition of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY has just been published by Salamandra, with this very striking cover – Paul Gauguin’s Matameo (Landscape With Peacocks).
Tesco Book Club
Posted in Mutiny On The Bounty on May 11, 2009 by johnboyne
This month’s Tesco Book Club book of the month is MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY.
The novel is being sold through Tesco at a special price and the edition contains some additonal material, including an article I wrote on the writing of the novel and an excerpt from the opening chapter of THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE. Further material on the book can also be read on the Tesco Book Club website.
New Novel Published Today
Posted in Mutiny On The Bounty, Publications, The House of Special Purpose on May 7, 2009 by johnboyne
My seventh novel, THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE, is published today. Here’s what it’s about:
Russia, 1915: At the age of 16, Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin’s bullet intended for the heart of a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is instantly proclaimed a hero. Before the week is out, his life as the son of a peasant farmer is changed forever when he is escorted to St Petersburg to take up his new position – as bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II.
Sixty-five years later, visiting his wife Zoya as she lies dying in a London hospital, memories of the life they have lived together flood his mind. Their marriage, while tender, has been marked by tragedy, the loss of loved ones, and experiences of exile that neither can forget.
“The House of Special Purpose” is a novel about a young man ripped from an impoverished home and thrust into the heart of a dying empire. Privy to the secrets of Nicholas and Alexandra, the machinations of Rasputin and the events which led to the final collapse of the autocracy, Georgy is a witness and participant in a drama which will echo down the century, both publicly and privtaely. For his story is also one of a marriage riven by a husband finds it impossible to live in the present and a wife unable to reconcile herself with the past. Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, the novel moves from revolutionary St Petersburg to Paris after the First World War, and from London during the Blitz to the eastern coast of Finland during the 1980s, before returning to a quiet hospital bed where Georgy and Zoya’s story must finally be 
resolved.
The first review of the novel, published in The Times last week, called it “absorbing and richly satisfying.”
Today also sees the publication of the paperback edition of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. When it was published in 2008, the novel received terrific reviews: “enthralling… storytelling at its most accomplished… stands comparison with William Golding’s Rites of Passage” (The Independent); “a remarkable and compelling piece of storytelling” (The Irish Times); “A cracking adventure story” (The Sunday Tribune). The novel has gone on to be published in Spain, Serbia, Canada, Holland, Catalan, America, and Australia and editions are forthcoming in Galicia, Brazil, Greece, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Norway and China.
THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE can be purchased from Amazon, Waterstone’s and Borders; MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY can also be purchased there, there and there.
Mutiny USA & Canada
Posted in Mutiny On The Bounty, Publications on February 17, 2009 by johnboyne
- USA
- Canada
Two separate North American editions of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY are published today in hardcover.
In the United States, the novel is published by Thomas Dunne Books under the title MUTINY: A NOVEL OF THE BOUNTY and you can order a copy from Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, or just get down to your local bookstore and pick one up.
In Canada, it’s published by Doubleday. You can get a copy from Amazon too.
The novel was originally published in the UK in May 2008 and I wrote an article on the writing of the book for Waterstone’s Books Quarterly which is available to read online.
Last Day in Spain
Posted in Mutiny On The Bounty, Striped Pyjamas - The Movie, Travels on September 29, 2008 by johnboyne
After almost two weeks doing promotional work for both the film, EL NINO CON EL PIJAMA DE RAYAS, and the novel, MOTIN EN LA BOUNTY, in San Sebastian, Barcelona and Madrid, I finally pack my bags today – not for home quite yet but for Switzerland and the last stop on this tour.
I’ve had a wonderful time in Spain, and the fact that we had this weekend free to enjoy ourselves in the capital has been a definite bonus. And the good news as I leave is that the film, which opened in Spain on Friday, is the no.1 film at the Spanish box office. Couldn’t resist this photo at a busy Madrid plaza over the weekend - check out the film posters behind me!
Catalan Bounty
Posted in Mutiny On The Bounty on September 26, 2008 by johnboyne
The Catalan edition of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, titled MOTI AL BOUNTY, is now in bookstores. I spent yesterday, the day of publication, in Barcelona with my Catlan publisher, Grup 62, conducting interviews and signing copies of the book for stores (left).
And all over Spain, where I’ve been for the last 10 days, the film version of Boy, EL NINO CON EL PIJAMA DE RAYAS, goes on release today. The novel has been the bestselling novel in Spain in both 2007 and 2008 so hopefully audiences will be equally receptive to Mark’s powerful film.
More Bounty Interviews
Posted in Interviews, Mutiny On The Bounty on September 24, 2008 by johnboyne
Still in Madrid, where four more of the interviews for MOTIN EN LA BOUNTY run in today’s newspapers and are available on-line:
The El Mundo photo to the left was taken in London a couple of weeks ago in the middle of 2 long days of international press interviews for the film. Don’t I look cheerful?
All Things Spanish
Posted in Interviews, Mutiny On The Bounty, Publications on September 23, 2008 by johnboyne
The Spanish language edition of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, titled MOTIN EN LA BOUNTY, is published today by Salamandra. Striped Pyjamas has sold more than 1.5 million copies in Spain and is still no.1, a year after publication, so hopefully the new novel will do well too.
If you’re in Spain, there are interviews about the novel running in the newspapers this week. On-line, you can read the ABC interview and the Publico interviews.
And of course the film version of EL NINO CON EL PIJAMA DE RAYAS opens in Spanish cinemas this Friday.
Spanish Mutiny
Posted in Mutiny On The Bounty on September 16, 2008 by johnboyne
The Spanish language edition of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, Motin en la Bounty, will be in bookstores from next week, published by Salamandra who did a wonderful job bringing El Nino con el Pijama de Rayas to more than a million readers in Spain.
I’ll be in Madrid for publication and will add details of any readings or appearances on here shortly.
Catalan and Galician editions will also be published soon; more details on them presently.
