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Agency has two of top three Times Best Biographies of 2015
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
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Chloe Banks is a finalist in The People's Book Prize
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
