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30 January 2008: The Guardian reports that Howard Sounes' forthcoming book Heist: The Full Story of the World's Biggest Cash Robbery has been optioned by Oxford Films and Televsion as the basis of a 90-minute Channel 4 drama-documentary.

28 January 2008: At the conclusion of Trial I at the Old Bailey in the £53 m Securitas robbery case, Howard Sounes appears on a series of television and radio shows -- including BBC Radio 4, Richard & Judy and BBC News 24 - to talk about his forthcoming book on the case: Heist: The Full Story of the World's Bigest Cash Robbery, to be published by Simon & Schuster.

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.

January 2007: A new edition of Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is to be published in the UK by Canongate Books, priced £8.99 (ISBN: 978 1 84195 897 2). It features a new preface and revised notes by Howard Sounes.

20 October 2006: The Bookseller reports that Howard Sounes is teaming up again with Andrew Gordon of Simon & Schuster for a book about the 2006 Tonbridge Securitas robbery, entitled Heist.

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.