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Relaunched and rebranded in 2020, Viv Loves Film is a new kind of literary, production and business affairs agency based in Brighton, UK that operates globally. We exclusively represent approximately 250 titles and our clients include Myriad Editions and RedDoor Press as well as titles of bestsellers including Brian Jacques and music biographer David Buckley.

“We are a boutique agency that does things a little differently, championing authors whilst promoting collaboration as together we lift stories from page to screen, stage and beyond.”

– Emma Topping (Owner & Collaborator)

OUR BOOKOGRAPHY

Contact us at info@vivlovesfilm.com to receive your digital copy of our fully searchable and interactive new digital Bookography showcasing our 250 titles. With one click you are taken immediately to the screen genre of your choosing. Once there, you can access additional content including book extracts, trailers and author interviews. We think that you will agree that this is more than your traditional catalogue!

DR AHRON BREGMAN

Dr Ahron (Ronnie) Bregman was born in 1958 in Israel, where he served in the army, reached the rank of captain and took part in the 1982 war in Lebanon. In the late 1980s, Dr Bregman left Israel in protest at the military’s violent suppression of the Palestinian uprising (the intifada) against the Israeli occupation and settled in the UK, where he completed a doctorate in War Studies. Currently Dr Bregman teaches at King’s College London and lives in Kingston-upon-Thames.

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ANTONY J. STANTON

Antony was born in London in 1970. Even as a child he always dreamed of becoming a published author and started to write a book. But, having watched the film ‘Top Gun,’ he was swayed into a becoming a military pilot. After no more than a glancing-blow of a career in the British Royal Air Force he became a commercial pilot, and he remains thus to this day. Prompted by the death of his mother to early onset dementia and his experiences in the RAF, Antony returned to writing. Additional inspirations for his writing include a kidnapping incident in Kazakhstan, a shooting in Ghana and being struck by lightning.

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BRIAN JACQUES

Brian Jacques (1939 – 2011) was born in Liverpool, and grew up in the docklands community of Kirkdale. His first book was the international bestselling REDWALL (with 21 other titles in the series), translated into 30 languages, sold in excess of 35 million copies and the book series recently optioned by NETFLIX with a feature and series already in development. Jacques also received widespread plaudits for his maritime adventure CASTAWAYS OF THE FLYING DUTHCMAN book trilogy, his URSO BRUNOV book series and his anthologies of short stories for young readers that appeal to fans of all ages: THE RIBBAJACK & OTHER CURIOUS YARNS and SEVEN STRANGE AND GHOSTLY TALES.

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Cipher Press

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DARRYL CUNNINGHAM

Darryl is the British cartoonist/writer of graphic novels: Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator about how a lowly KGB bureaucrat became one of the most powerful men in the world and Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich And Powerful a book that contains biographies of four of the richest and most influential people on the planet: Rupert Murdoch, the Koch Brothers and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. Both graphic novels are represented by Viv Loves Film through our client Myriad Editions.

Darryl has given talks at the London School of Economics and the City of Arts and Lights, Valencia. In 2015 he was one of 30 world-renowned photographers, painters, sculptors, writers, filmmakers and musicians who were invited to contribute to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Art of Saving a Life project, to promote vaccination in the developing world. In 2018 he was awarded an Honorary MA from Leeds Arts University.

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DAVID BUCKLEY

Born in 1965 in Liverpool, David Buckley completed a Ph.D. at Liverpool University’s Institute of Popular Music in 1994. After spending half his life in Munich as a lecturer at Munich University and as a tutor-counsellor at the Open University, David returned to the UK in 2019. He is a Dad, a Liverpool FC supporter, a Bowie Boy, a Whovian and a Socialist. In addition to being a bestselling author, David has been contributed to many prestigious music industry publications, including MOJO MAGAZINE for over 20 years as a reviewer and writer, including features on Bowie, Genesis, Elton John, the Human League, Ultravox, Florence and the Machine, and Goldfrapp.

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DAVID M. SINDALL

On a freezing cold January morning, David Sindall was born kicking and screaming into this world in Birkenhead, on the banks of the Mersey. By the time he started at Bradford University, in 1979, his life influences had been shaped, along with an unfathomable commitment to supporting Tranmere Rovers. After this David spent his work in the field of diversity, and in particular making businesses more accessible to disabled people and older people. He now lives in West Kirby, on the Wirral peninsula and has penned three novels and numerous plays. His work has been compared to Roddy Doyle and to Iain Banks, his narrative shaped by his own experience of life and his unique perspective.

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ED HILLYER (AKA ILYA)

Hawthornden Fellow Ed is a British writer, artist and editor. His books include the award-winning graphic novel series THE END OF THE CENTURY CLUB (Best Graphic Novel, the UK Comic Art Convention 1997) and THE CLAY DREAMING. Resident Cartoon Historian for NEW INTERNATIONALIST (11 episodes and counting). Read him in French, German, Italian, Turkish, Galician Spanish and even Japanese.

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HANNAH BERRY

Hannah Berry is an award-winning graphic novelist, comics creator, writer, illustrator, editorial gun-for-hire and UK Comics Laureate 2019-21. In 2018 she was inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature to become ‘Hannah Berry FRSL’. Hannah’s third graphic novel, LIVESTOCK, was nominated in the Best Graphic Novel and Best Writer categories at the 2017 Broken Frontier Awards, winning the Best Writer Award. Hannah currently does a monthly cartoon strip for PROSPECT and formerly did a weekly cartoon for the NEW STATESMAN. She has contributed to several comics publications and projects internationally and is a regular guest of art, literature and comics festivals in the UK and around the world, whilst her artwork has been exhibited in solo and collective exhibitions worldwide. Hannah is half Ecuadorian, lives in Brighton, and is extremely partial to cashews; the Ferrari of the nut world

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HELEN BRIDGETT

Having failed miserably with every New Year’s resolution that involved diets, one year, Helen Bridgett set herself a completely different goal – to write a novel and give it to her family as a Christmas present. Although she acknowledges they probably would have preferred home-made jam, the novel was written and she caught the writing bug.
Her first novel, The Mercury Travel Club features laugh-out-loud characters who took on a life of their own resulting in the sequel, The Heat is On. She loves nothing more than a night out and banter with friends; Helen had previously studied Scriptwriting and her love of dialogue feeds into her work so writing has given her the perfect excuse to eavesdrop on conversations. Helen lives in the North East with her husband and their chocolate Labrador. All three can often be found wandering the beautiful Northumberland coastline or in country pubs.

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IVAN WAINEWRIGHT

Ivan was born in London in 1965. After studying Computing and Operational Research in Leeds, he lived in Australia, Singapore and North London before settling in Kent. He became an independent IT consultant working with charities and nonprofit organisations across Europe. He has written two novels, THE KOSHER DELHI and THE OTHER TIMES OF CAROLINE TANGENT. When not writing, he can be found watching (and occasionally) playing football, running, listening to music from Chumbawamba to Led Zeppelin, arguing over politics and trying to cook.

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JILL MARHSHALL

In 1965, Jill Marshall was born in a Manchester suburb. Jill read History at Cambridge University, from where she entered a career in HR and Training & Development. Aged 34, as a single mum and T&D director in a multi-national telecoms company, she took another Masters’ Degree, this time in creative writing and embarked on a career as an author. At the same time, she moved daughter and dog to New Zealand. Jill’s middle-grade series about sensational girl spy, Jane Blonde, published by Macmillan Children’s Books UK, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies around the world, featured as a World Book Day title and reached the UK Times Top 10 for all fiction. When she’s not writing books, Jill works as an organisational communications consultant and is a proud mum and nana. She divides her time between the UK and New Zealand.

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MYRIAD EDITIONS

Myriad Editions is an independent publisher based in Brighton and has since 2005 developed a distinctive style of publishing original fiction, graphic novels and feminist nonfiction. Among Myriad Editions’ authors are winners of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Myriad Editions organises two work-in-progress competitions, one for fiction (First Drafts) and the other for graphic novels (First Graphic Novel Competition). Both have a track record of uncovering and launching authors who progress to achieve creative and commercial success. In 2017 Myriad Editions merged with New Internationalist as part of a joint plan to reach wider audiences and publish books that push boundaries and embrace diversity. Myriad Editions strives to make the personal political and the local international with books that speak to and of global and urgent shared concerns.

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RedDoor Press

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STE SHARP

Ste Sharp was born in the hottest summer on record and would still be a Scientist if it weren’t for an odd dream whilst camping in the Australian outback, which set him on a writing path. His novels follow ordinary people on extra-ordinary journeys as they venture beyond the boundaries of regular life to distant worlds and forgotten pasts. Ste lives in Suffolk with his wife, two sons and a deer-infested allotment.

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