01 May 2015
There was a major feature in yesterday’s Hampstead and Highgate Express on David McClure’s new book Royal Legacy.
She’s dropped off the rich list, so how are the Queen’s finances?
30 Apr 2015
Queer Saint by Adrian Clark and Jeremy Dronfield was the subject of a two-page feature in the Independent yesterday.
‘The curious life of this curious man is the subject of a new book, Queer Saint by Adrian Clark and Jeremy Dronfield. Watson was queer in both senses and the authors trace his wanderings through both the beau monde and the dingy one and lay out the friendships and loves he found in each. The figure that emerges is at once a gay playboy with a taste for rough trade and an aesthete in the purest sense of the word who left an indelible if largely unacknowledged mark on British art.’
‘Queer saint’ Peter Watson left his mark on British culture by bankrolling artworld giants
29 Apr 2015
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose Saving Danny has now been in the best seller lists for almost two months. This week she is no Number 15 .
28 Apr 2015
David Craig, the author of The Great Charity Scandal, has produced two scathing new videos.
28 Apr 2015
Snippets from Paul Jones’ Word Drops are going to be used every day this week on Radio Four’s The World At One. The first one can be heard here, about 25 minutes in.
28 Apr 2015
David Weston’s Dodger Treads the Boards had a great review in the Daily Mail this weekend.
‘Weston deftly interweaves fact with fiction to create a wonderfully picaresque extravaganza.’
28 Apr 2015
Vanessa Nicolson’s powerful family memoir Have You Been Good? was serialised this weekend in the Sunday Times.
27 Apr 2015
Gordon Lewis’s Secret Child was serialised in this weekend’s Mail on Sunday.
Real lives: ‘We were called “the unfortunates”, but that’s not how I viewed myself’
24 Apr 2015
Linda Porter was one of the historians appearing on last night’s Channel 5 programme The Last Days Of….
23 Apr 2015
‘Writing At The Castle is 5 days of professional tuition and private writing time in the inspiring surroundings of a magnificent medieval Château in Gascony, South West France. Award-winning authors Amanda Hodgkinson and Tracey Warr, together with literary agent Andrew Lownie and publishing professionals including Jill Marsh author and co-publisher at Triskele Books and Anselm Audley, will be among the speakers who will lead practical workshops for a small group of writers looking to make that difficult leap from the private and often solitary writing desk, to the world of published success.’