News
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Andrew Crofts on Thistle Publishing and 'Pretty Little Packages'
12 Feb 2015
‘Thistle is an enormously successful imprint set up by London agents Andrew Lownie and David Haviland to keep books alive and available when the more traditional publishing organisations are no longer willing or able to do so.’
"Pretty Little Packages" from Thistle Publishing
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History of War magazine reviews Zero Night
12 Feb 2015
There’s an excellent review of Mark Felton’s Zero Night in the latest History of War magazine. ‘Fans of the film The Great Escape (and frankly who isn’t?) will love this book… This is undeniably history as it should be told and a thundering good read.’
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Monica Porter feature in Daily Mail
12 Feb 2015
Today’s Daily Mail has a feature on Monica Porter, the author of Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously.
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
12 Feb 2015
Spanish rights in Nessa Carey’s Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
Russian rights in Patrick Dillon’s The Story of Buildings
Chinese rights in Michael Schuster’s Essential Winetasting
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The Guardian reviews Spymaster
11 Feb 2015
The Guardian today carries a great review of Helen Fry’s new book Spymaster: The Secret Life of Kendrick.
“An exhaustively-researched book on a man whose life cried out for an autobiography… an extremely valuable contribution to our understanding of a secret world.”
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Great review for Lee Trimble
10 Feb 2015
Lee Trimble’s Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot’s Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front has had a great review from Publishers Weekly:
‘An inspiring read and well-researched, to boot; Trimble’s story shows that even in a great global war, one regular soldier can make a difference.’
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Junk DNA reviewed in New Scientist
09 Feb 2015
There’s a great review of Nessa Carey’s Junk DNA in this week’s New Scientist:
‘A cutting-edge, exhaustive guide to the rapidly changing, ever-more mysterious genome.’
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Chloe Banks continues to climb
09 Feb 2015
Chloe Banks’ debut novel The Art of Letting Go, published by Thistle Books, continues to climb the charts, currently at No.64 in the Kindle bestseller list.
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David Stafford is Australian bestseller
06 Feb 2015
David Stafford’s Spies Beneath Berlin, recently published by Thistle Books, has moved into the Kindle top 5 in Australia, currently at #4.
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RIP Children's Non-Fiction?
06 Feb 2015
Ian Graham - shortlisted for the 2014 Educational Writers’ Award - champions a “Cinderella corner” of publishing.
