News
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Biography of Cabinet Secretary to Biteback
20 Dec 2015
Biteback have commissioned a life of Robin Butler, former Cabinet Secretary, from MIchael Jago whose life of Clement Attlee they have just published.
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David Lough interviewed about No More Champagne
20 Dec 2015
An interview with David Lough about his recent book on Churchill’s financial affairs can be found at
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
20 Dec 2015
Nessa Carey’s The Epigenetics Revolution to Spain and Turkey
Gary Smith’s Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions,Tortured Data and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics to China
Chris Woodford’s Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Secret Science Hidden in Your Home to Korea
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Two agency titles in Daily Mail Books of the Year
20 Dec 2015
Congratulations to David Lough whose No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money was chosen as one of the Daily Mail’s history books of the year:
Andrew Lownie’s Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess was one of three biographies of the year
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No More Champagne shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016
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.
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Four agency titles on this MP's reading list
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
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Born into the Children of God no 7 in New York Times bestseller 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
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Vikie Shanks gives TEDX talk on autism
05 Dec 2015
Vikie Shanks’s TEDX talk on autism can be heard at
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Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Secret Science Hidden in Your Home one of Physics Books of Year
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/
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Kirkus starred review for At War on the Gothic Line: : Fighting in Italy 1944-'45
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.”
