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  • Cathy Glass is no 3

    07 May 2014

    Cathy Glass’s Daddy’s Little Princess is no 3 in the paperback non-fiction list this week - its sixth week in the charts.

  • Joff Sharpe on BBC Radio

    07 May 2014

    Joff Sharpe’s full interview with Danny Pike is now available on the iPlayer (the start is about 75 minutes in).

    Full interview

  • Joff Sharpe writes for the Huffington Post

    06 May 2014

    ‘I was always a fan of the late General “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf, the US Army general who led Allied forces in the first Gulf War with the battle cry; “When in command, take charge!” And yet I’ve started to come across an increasing array of competent leaders doing the exact opposite. To be clear, I’m not talking about leaders who delegate and empower those lower down the food chain. What I’m talking about is the total abrogation of conventional forms of authority…’

    The Art of Management by Doing Nothing

  • Cabin Fever flying high

    05 May 2014

    Mandy Smith’s sexy new memoir Cabin Fever is still flying high in the charts, having spent five days in the Amazon Top 50, reaching as high as #11.  The book was also serialised this weekend in The Sun.

    Cabin Fever

  • Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis

    04 May 2014

    Agency author Warwick Davis’s six part series, ‘Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis’, about holidaying in Britain has just started on ITV.

  • Two-book Tudor deal to Head of Zeus

    04 May 2014

    Head of Zeus have bought UK & Commonwealth rights in Elizabeth Norton’s The Seymour Scandal, about Elizabeth 1’s relationship with her step-mother’s husband Thomas Seymour, and in a second book looking at women at the court of Henry V111.

  • Book on Churchill's finances to Head of Zeus

    04 May 2014

    Head of Zeus have bought UK rights in banker and Oxford historian David Lough’s Churchill and his Money: A Perfect Sieve which tells the fascinating story of Churchill’s lifetime of tangled personal finances.

  • More great reviews for Cathy Glass's Daddy's Little Princess

    02 May 2014

    Goodreads reviews:

    Another great book.

    I love all Cathy’s books. They draw you in and are happy, sad and emotional, all at the same time. I finished this in a day, like the others I couldn’t put it down.

    Loved this story about Beth. Another great page turner by Cathy. Highly recommend.

    Gina Ford www.contentedbaby.com:

    Cathy Glass’s latest book is another page-turner which you’ll find hard to put down…a compelling tale where things aren’t always quite as they first appear.

    Amazon reviews:

    Another brilliant book from Cathy Glass, never fails to deliver.

    Read this book in one day. Absolutely brilliant account of Beth’s foster placement. Another fabulous book. I can’t wait for future releases.

    From the first page I was hooked.

    Another classic.

    iTunes:

    … a great writer & an inspirational woman.

    I had to read this in just one sitting.

    Another fabulous book

    Playgoogle:

    Another brilliant book.

    Another fantastic read! I couldn’t put it down.

    Loved this story about Beth. Another great page turner.

  • Coming Up Trumps is no 5 Sunday Times bestseller

    02 May 2014

    Coming Up Trumps, ghosted by agency author Deborah Crewe, is no 5 in the Sunday Times hardback non-fiction list this week.

    The book, according to The Bookseller, was the sixth most reviewed book this week.

  • Daily Mail reviews Coming Up Trumps

    02 May 2014

    Baroness Trumpington’s new autobiography Coming Up Trumps, ghosted by agency author Deborah Crewe, has been warmly reviewed by the Daily Mail:

    ‘This exuberant, engaging and very funny book.’

    Daily Mail