News
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Mastermind behind The Great Train Robbery Revealed
20 Feb 2015
Ebury have bought The Secret Train Robber: My Life with the True Mastermind of the Great Train Robbery which promises, after fifty years silence, to reveal the mastermind behind the robbery .
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Gavin Evans in the New Internationalist
20 Feb 2015
Gavin Evans has a fascinating piece in the current New Internationalist on the subject of race science. Gavin launches his new book Black Brain, White Brain tonight.
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Andrew Crofts on Thistle Books
19 Feb 2015
‘As we speak, I am in the process of publishing several different books, one with the very traditional HarperCollins – (“Secret Child”, which I wrote with Gordon Lewis about his childhood in a home for single mothers in Dublin in the Fifties) – one with the selective, bespoke publisher Red Door – (“Chances”, an erotic love story which I ghosted for the author known only as “Penny”) – and one with Thistle Publishing, the enormously successful imprint run by literary agents Andrew Lownie and David Haviland, (“Pretty Little Packages” a novel about people-trafficking and modern slavery which was first published in 2001 under the title “Maisie’s Amazing Maids”).’
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Two Thistle authors in Kindle top 100
19 Feb 2015
M J Trow and Michael Hartland were among the top 100 most-read authors on Kindle in January, with M J Trow in the top 20.
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Chloe Banks into Kindle top 50
19 Feb 2015
Chloe Banks’ debut novel The Art of Letting Go, recently published by Thistle Books, has broken into the Kindle top 50 bestsellers.
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Huge coverage for Terrible Estate Agent Photos
19 Feb 2015
Andy Donaldson’s Terrible Estate Agent Photos has been generating lots of media interest, including the following:
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Rachel Kelly in the Sunday Times
17 Feb 2015
An old girl rewinds to help stressed young things press Pause (£)
‘After battling depression for years, Rachel Kelly revisited her old school, a leading independent, to help pupils cope with pressure and anxiety. She found some were veterans already…’
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More coverage for Nick Pope
17 Feb 2015
There’s a feature in today’s Daily Telegraph on the Rendlesham Forest Incident.
Britain’s Roswell: the truth behind the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident
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Ian Graham on science writing
16 Feb 2015
Ian Graham has written a fascinating article on science writing:
What inspires me to learn something new?
Ian also recently met the shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt at a reception for writers at the Houses of Parliament, to receive his prize for being shortlisted for the 2014 Educational Writer’s Award.
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Michael Hartland is #1
13 Feb 2015
Michael Hartland’s The Third Betrayal, recently published by Thistle Books, is the #1 bestseller on Amazon Australia.
