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  • New video - David Craig on The Great Charity Scandal

    02 Dec 2015

    David Craig has produced a new video on the charity industry, promoting his thought-provoking book The Great Charity Scandal.

    Charities - can we trust them?

  • Two agency titles shortlisted for the People's Book Prize

    01 Dec 2015

    Royal Legacy by David McClure and The Devil’s Work by Dominic Adler have both been shortlisted for the People’s Book Prize. Both were published earlier this year by Thistle Books.

    The People’s Book Prize

  • No More Champagne heads the list of ‘Best biographies of 2015′ in The Wall Street Journal

    27 Nov 2015

    David Lough’s No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money continues to gather superb reviews:

    “This book brilliantly illuminates one of the few unexplored aspects of Winston Churchill’s life – his private finances. Based on a wealth of fresh documentary evidence, it also reveals much about his larger-than-life character. In these fascinating pages Churchill emerges as extravagant in every way, especially in his addiction to risk.” Piers Brendon

    “This excellent and entertaining work is worth reading for the lists of more than 1,000 bottles of champagne and 250 bottles of brandy that Churchill got through in 1949 alone”.Vicky Pryce, Prospect

    “This is the first biography to focus on Churchill’s business affairs. To view someone from just one angle is usually to deform them, but David Lough, drawing on compelling material including Churchill’s tax records, more than justifies his audit” Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph

    “a surprising page-turner” The Economist

  • Andrew Lownie in BBC History Magazine

    21 Nov 2015

    Andrew Lownie is interviewed about his biography Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess for BBC History Magazine’s November podcast starting at 30 minute mark

    http://cdn.immediatecontent.com/bbchistory/audio/HistoryExtra201511_19.mp3

  • David McGrath is a hit with Waverton Good Reads

    19 Nov 2015

    David McGrath recently gave a reading at a meeting of Waverton Good Reads, after which all copies of his exhilarating debut novel Rickshaw were quickly snapped up.

    ‘David McGrath writes for ‘my mates in the pub who never read’, but the rapid sale of copies of Rickshaw after his performance of a scene from this novel to a room of avid readers tells you that his appeal is much broader than that. No, he doesn’t like adverbs and he avoids flowery descriptive language. Instead, he uses sparse narrative and superb dialogue to say it all.’ Gwen Goodhew - Waverton Good Read Award

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  • Two agency titles in top ten for third week running

    18 Nov 2015

    Cathy Glass’s Girl Alone is still at Number 9 this week in the non-fiction paperback charts making two agency titles in the top ten.

  • She's a Boy hits Amazon 'most-read' list

    18 Nov 2015

    Joe Holliday’s powerful memoir She’s a Boy was one of the Kindle 50 ‘most-read’ titles during October.

  • Skin Deep is no 8

    18 Nov 2015

    Skin Deep by Casey Watson and Lynne Barrett-Lee is at number 8 in the paperback bestsellers for non fiction this week

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    17 Nov 2015

    Chinese rights in Juliet Barker’s Agincourt.

    Russian rights in A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy by Deborah McDonald and Jeremy Dronfield.

    Chinese rights in Desmond Seward’s A Brief History of Hundred Years War and The Monks of War.

  • Rachel Kelly on Jeremy Vine

    17 Nov 2015

    Rachel Kelly can be heard on Jeremy Vine talking about her new book Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness about an hour in

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nnfnr

    Her website can be found at www.rachel-kelly.net