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Cathy Glass celebrates 7 weeks in the top 10.
13 May 2014
Cathy Glass’s Daddy’s Little Princess remains in the paperback non-fiction list at no 8.
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Rachel Kelly in the Telegraph
12 May 2014
Rachel Kelly’s new book Black Rainbow is generating huge attention. Rachel has a piece in today’s Telegraph on How poetry helped me recover from depression. There’s also an excellent review in the same newspaper from Charles Moore:
‘In this book, she tells her story vividly… It will be of enormous use to sufferers: it is both practical and inspiring.’
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Boris Johnson's Ode to Rachel Kelly
12 May 2014
Mayor of London Boris Johnson wrote and performed a poem in tribute to Rachel Kelly at the launch of her new book Black Rainbow.
…There is no known disaster
That poetry can’t master
No human agony that it can’t calm
So when your nerves have turned to jelly
Follow clever Rachel Kelly
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Andrew Lownie remains the top-selling agent in the world
12 May 2014
Andrew Lownie remains the top-selling agent in the world, across all categories, according to Publishers Marketplace.
He has 41 recorded deals over the last 6 months (second place has 30) and 73 deals over 12 months (second place has 64).
He is first worldwide in biography and second worldwide in the history/politics/current affairs category.
The agency also remains in the top ten in the world across all categories and first in UK non-fiction - with 34 deals in the last 6 months (with second place at 7 deals), and 54 deals over the last year (with second place at 15).
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Lots of coverage for Adrian Gilbert
09 May 2014
Adrian Gilbert’s revisionist Challenge of Battle: The Real Story of the British Army in 1914 has been generating a lot of coverage, including the following:
Newstalk - book recommendations (audio)
‘Adrian Gilbert’s book is well written and supported by his detailed research of letters and documents. There are clear maps and some contemporary photographs to illustrate what is an interesting work, both for military and non-military historians’
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The Cabin Fever phenomenon continues
09 May 2014
Following Mandy’s Smith’s appearance on This Morning, Cabin Fever is mentioned in Carol Midgley’s column in The Times:
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What on Earth Happened a Japanese best seller
08 May 2014
Chris Lloyd’s history What on Earth Happened has become a best seller in Japan selling over 150,000 copies.
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Cabin Fever in top 40 on Amazon Paid Kindle
08 May 2014
Mandy Smith’s memoir Cabin Fever is currently
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #36 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Piu Eatwell wins Next Generation Indie book award
08 May 2014
They Eat Horses, Don’t They? The Truth about the French, by Piu Marie Eatwell has won the multicultural non-fiction category of the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and was a finalist in the historical Non-fiction category .
