22 Feb 2015
Simon & Schuster have bought world rights in Able Seacat Simon by Lynne Barrett-Lee which recounts the adventures of the official ship’s cat aboard the naval Frigate, HMS Amethyst.
22 Feb 2015
Harper Collins have bought world rights in two more Casey Watson fostering titles . The thirteenth book in the series, A Voice for Bella, centres round a five-year-old girl taken in because of domestic violence at home while the next book, The Girl Who Never Was, is the story of fourteen-year-old Polish imigrant Adrianna. The books will be published next year.
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 .
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.
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”).’
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.
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.
19 Feb 2015
Andy Donaldson’s Terrible Estate Agent Photos has been generating lots of media interest, including the following:
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…’
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