12 Feb 2014
Nicholas Best’s fascinating history of the British in Kenya, Happy Valley, has moved into the non-fiction Top 100. Recently reissued by Thistle Publishing, the book is currently available for just 99p.
11 Feb 2014
Andrew Lownie appeared in yesterday’s Daily Mail commenting on Les Dawson’s newly discovered romantic historical novel.
08 Feb 2014
Shaun Walker’s fascinating investigation Odessa Dreams: The Dark Heart of Ukraine’s Online Marriage Industry has moved into the Kindle Singles non-fiction top 20.
07 Feb 2014
IPR License, the global and digital marketplace for books rights, has announced that Warren Durrant has won the latest IPR License ‘Agents Pick’ for his memoir Across the Wide Zambezi.
Commenting on the winners book, David Haviland, agent at The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, said: “This is a pacy, entertaining memoir, by turns fascinating and amusing, with an appealing narrative voice.”
07 Feb 2014
Christine Lord, author of Who Killed My Son?, was one of the witnesses at the Parliamentary inquiry into UK blood safety into vCJD, generating considerable media interest, including the links below.
07 Feb 2014
Joff Sharpe, author of new business book Who Dares Wins in Business, has written the first of a series of columns for the South China Morning Post:
‘I was sitting in a car outside a branch of Wells Fargo Bank in Washington DC, planning how to rob it at gunpoint, when I decided instead to become a personnel manager working for a vending machine company in Basingstoke, UK. Some people would consider that a strange career bifurcation!’
04 Feb 2014
Ian Graham’s Imposters to Japan
Sean McMeekin’s July 1914 in Czech
04 Feb 2014
Chris Woodford’s Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Secret Science Hidden in Your Home has been bought by Blooomsbury.
04 Feb 2014
Constable have commissioned a sequel to David Long’s Bizarre London. Bizarre Scotland will cover all aspects of Scottish history, from architecture to cookery, from gruesome executions to celebrated ghosts, and from secret Cold War installations to the production of the world’s strongest beer.