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  • Peter Padfield is Australian bestseller

    18 Dec 2014

    Peter Padfield’s War Beneath the Sea is at #3 in the Amazon Australia bestseller list.

  • Good review for Noreen Riols

    18 Dec 2014

    Noreen Riols’ new novel Autumn Sonata has had a great review from the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.

    ‘I found it hard to put down… If you like a good, real romantic novel, then this is a ‘must read’.’

  • ABC Radio interviews Mark Felton

    18 Dec 2014

    Mark Felton’s interview with ABC Radio (Australia) is now available online here.

  • Rachel Kelly writes for the Sunday Times

    16 Dec 2014

    Rachel Kelly has written a fascinating piece on women and antidepressants in the Sunday Times.

  • Good review for Lee Trimble

    16 Dec 2014

    Lee Trimble’s new book Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot’s Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front has received a good review from Kirkus Reviews.

    ‘A little-known set of moving adventures, well-researched and presented.’

    Full review

  • Good review for To Fight Alongside Friends

    15 Dec 2014

    ‘Soldiers were forbidden from keeping diaries during World War I, but thankfully Charlie May, a captain in the 22nd Manchester ‘Pals’ Battalion, was one of the many who disobeyed orders. When he was killed, aged 27, on the first day of the Somme, May left seven pocketbooks behind him — the final volume was found on his body. A journalist before the war, he proved to be a natural diarist, as wry as he was sharp-eyed.’

    Full review - Daily Mail

  • Daily Mail reviews Terrible Estate Agent Photos

    15 Dec 2014

    ‘Here is a hilarious collection of ineptitude demonstrating a lack of any attention to detail that would no doubt get on the Turner Prize shortlist. This book begins as a laugh and ends as something terrifying — like most things in life.’

    Full review

  • Agency title short-listed for Longman-History Today Award

    12 Dec 2014

    Jessie Childs’ God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England, previously short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, is on the short list for the Longman-History Today Award

  • Connor is Family Hero of the Year

    10 Dec 2014

    Burns victim Connor Rowntree has won another top honour for his work in educating children about the dangers of dabbling with fire.

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  • Jane Dismore book signing with the Duchess of Northumberland

    09 Dec 2014

    Jane Dismore had a book signing last Satruday at Alnwick Garden with the Duchess of Northumberland. Jane is promoting her new book Duchesses.