News
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Girl Alone at number 8 this week
28 Oct 2015
Cathy Glass’s Girl Alone remains in the top ten bestseller list for another week.
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Paddy Hayes launch on YouTube
28 Oct 2015
Paddy Hayes and other speakers at the launch of his biography of Daphne Park Queen of Spies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzXWMCfTaSk
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The Lightless Sky in The Times
26 Oct 2015
The Lightless Sky by Gulwali Passarlay with agency author Nadene Ghouri was featured in two articles in The Times.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/article4587943.ece ”> http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/article4587943.ece
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History Today podcast on Freedom of Information Act and historians
26 Oct 2015
Andrew Lownie talks about the obstacles facing historians trying to use the Freedom of Information Act to access government files in a podcast for History Today.
https://soundcloud.com/historytoday-1/the-history-today-podcast-october-2016
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Girl Alone no 3 bestseller
21 Oct 2015
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose Girl Alone is Number 3 in the Sunday Times paperback best sellers this week.
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Cabin Fever once again in Kindle top 100 'most-read'
19 Oct 2015
The sensational air hostess memoir Cabin Fever, by Mandy Smith and Nicola Stow, was once again one of the 100 ‘most-read’ titles on the Amazon Kindle in September.
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Excellent coverage for Wilde's Women
19 Oct 2015
Eleanor Fitzsimons’ Wilde’s Women has had extensive coverage including:
‘Fitzsimons has produced a thought-provoking and illuminating read that is sure to offer new lines of thought for even the most knowledgeable Wilde fan. Thoroughly readable and accessible, this is a must for students of Wilde of those who just have an appreciation of the man and his work. ’
http://www.welovethisbook.com/reviews/wildes-women
Her feature on writing Wilde’s Women in The Irish Times :
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/oscar-wilde-ladies-man-1.2394384
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Good review for Black Brain, White Brain
16 Oct 2015
Gavin Evans’ fascinating new book Black Brain, White Brain has had yet another good review, this time on South Africa’s national radio station, Radio 702.
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FT reviews David Lough's No More Champagne
15 Oct 2015
The Financial Times review of David Lough’s No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money can be found http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/book-review-no-more-champagne-by-david-lough
‘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. ’
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Yale buys Helen Fry's latest WW2 book
15 Oct 2015
Yale University Press have bought World English rights in Helen Fry’s The London Cage: The Scandal of MI6 and Prisoners-of-War in WW2.
