January 2010:  Reviewing the new edition of Charles Bukowski: Locked  in the Arms of a Crazy Life (Canongate, £9.99), Victoria Segal writes in the Guardian that Howard Sounes 'distils Bukowski's unlovely life into biographical firewater'.

Heist is a gripping account of a classic criminal caper: how a gang of bruisers and misfits led, allegedly, by a professional cage fighter, stole £53 million from a cash warehouse in Kent, creating a new world record. Exciting and hugely entertaining, Heist is the brilliant new true crime book from the author of Fred & Rose. Available now from Amazon.co.uk and all good book shops.

21 September 2009: Director Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) wants to make a movie based on Howard Sounes' forthcoming book Heist, according to Variety. The book, which tells the story of the world's biggest cash robbery, and has taken three years to write, is under option to US production company XYZ.

7 February, 2008: Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is published in French translation by Editions du Rocher of Paris as Bukowski: une vie de fou. "...the first biography worthy of the name devoted to Buk," concludes Le Figaro.

November, 2007: Howard Sounes is given an Internet profile on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Sounes

July, 2007: Paperback publication of Seventies in the UK by Simon & Schuster.

July, 2007: Charles Bukowski's novel Hollywood -- recounting the behind-the-scenes story of the making of the 1987 movie Barfly -- is published in the United Kingdom, in a new edition, by Canongate Books, with an introduction by Howard Sounes, who explains the background story to the novel.

October, 2006: Rome-based publisher Laterza Editore announces plans for an Italian translation of Seventies.

15 September, 2006: Eleven years after its first publication, Fred & Rose remains one of the ten bestselling true crime titles in the UK (Nielsen BookScan, reported in The Bookseller 15/9/06), selling almost 20,000 copies in the first 35 weeks of 2006.

September 2006: Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is published in translation in Sweden, by Härnqvists bokförlag, entitled Bukowski: En Biografi (ISBN: 91-974905-4-7). In its review, one of Sweden's leading daily newspapers, Svenka Dagbladet, calls the biography: “not the first book about Bukowski – but the best.” The biography is now in eleven languages.

14 August 2006: Howard Sounes appears on Radio 4's Today programme to talk about his new book Seventies.

7 August 2006: Hardback publication of Seventies in the UK, by Simon & Schuster.

3 August 2006: 'The Seventies are written off as trashy. Wrong. They were a time of cultural achievement.' Howard Sounes writes a think-piece about the decade in The Times.