Elliot & Thompson snaps up Campbell memoir

Elliot & Thompson has snapped up a memoir by writer Nancy Campbell, whose recent book Fifty Words for Snow (Elliot & Thompson) was Waterstones’ November Non-Fiction Book of the Month.

Sarah Rigby, publishing director, acquired world rights to Thunderstone from Kirsty McLachlan at Morgan Green Creatives. It will be published in hardback and e-book in July 2022. 

In her memoir, Campbell explains how in the wake of a traumatic lockdown, she bought an old caravan and drove it into a strip of neglected woodland between the canal and railway outside Oxford. It is the first home she has ever owned and she wonders if it can provide the space she needs to rebuild her life.  The publisher described the book as "an intimate journal across the span of a defining summer" calling Thunderstone "a celebration of transformation and an invitation to approach life with imagination and to embrace change bravely". 

Rigby said: "I am so delighted to be working with Nancy again after the joyful success of Fifty Words for Snow. Her writing is exquisite: lyrical, sculpted, timeless. At a time when so many of us are thinking about the shape of our lives, I know that readers will find enormous resonance in Nancy’s story of change, recovery, self-discovery – and van life."

Campbell added: "I’m over the moon that Thunderstone will be published by Elliott & Thompson, who have forged such a powerful and relevant non-fiction list. Following their extraordinary winning work on the frozen world with Fifty Words for Snow, I look forward to seeing where Sarah Rigby and the team take this new, and deeply personal geography."