14 Dec 2015
Congratulations to David Lough whose first book No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money has been shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016.
It has also been Books of the year 2015 ” The Times; “Best reads of 2015” The Guardian - “Books to Give - Best Biographies 2015”, Wall Street Journal.
14 Dec 2015
Good to see four agency biographies on this MP’s Christmas reading list:
Paddy Hayes’s Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain’s Cold War Spy Master , Michael Jago’s Rab Butler: The Best Prime Minister Britain Never Had? , David Lough’s No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money Andrew Lownioe’s Stalin’s Englishman: THe Lives of Guy Burgess
http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2015/12/01/keith-simpson-mp-s-christmas-reading-list
12 Dec 2015
Congratulations to Natacha Tormey and Nadene Ghouri whose Born into the Children of God is no 7 in the New York Times E book non-fiction bestseller list. http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2015-12-20/e-book-nonfiction/list.html
05 Dec 2015
Vikie Shanks’s TEDX talk on autism can be heard at
05 Dec 2015
Congratulations to Chris Woodford whose Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Secret Science Hidden in Your Home has been selected as one of the physics books of the year
“Woodford’s snappily written analysis of ordinary “household” science takes a sideways look at the physics of objects found in and around a typical British home, from the car parked outside to the heating systems that keep the inhabitants snug when they curl up with a book on a cold winter night.”
http://blog.physicsworld.com/2015/12/03/top-physics-books-of-2015/
05 Dec 2015
Kirkus has written of Christian Jennings’ At War on the Gothic Line: : Fighting in Italy 1944-‘45
“An excellent book refreshingly unlike most tedious, confusing war stories. Jennings brings his easy journalistic style and thorough fact finding to one of the most desperate conflicts of the war, teaching us how war stories should be written.”
05 Dec 2015
The Agency has two books in the top three ( from seven titles) in this year’s Times Biographies of the Year - Stalin’s Englishman and No More Champagne.
“Awful human beings make for splendid biographies, and the traitor Guy Burgess was a terrible specimen of humanity…This terrible man is brought back to vivid life by this well-researched, finely written book.”
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/books/non-fiction/article4632411.ece
Both books figured in the Guardian Books of the Year last week
02 Dec 2015
Congratulations to Chloe Banks. Her debut novel The Art of Letting Go is a finalist in the The People’s Book Prize. The results will be announced at an award ceremony at the end of May 2016. The book was published earlier this year by Thistle Books.
02 Dec 2015
David Craig has produced a new video on the charity industry, promoting his thought-provoking book The Great Charity Scandal.
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.