News
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More coverage for Monica Porter
04 Apr 2014
Monica Porter has written two fascinating new pieces about her sexy new memoir Raven: My year of dating dangerously…, and the effects of her new fame.
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Another great review for Jessie Childs
03 Apr 2014
‘In the quality of her research and sensitive handling of issues that remain raw to this day, Jessie Childs succeeds in evoking ‘the lived experience of anti-Catholicism’ as few have done before…Childs’s language is lively and inventive… By picturing Elizabethan recusants in all their complexity, Jessie Childs has enabled them to speak for themselves at last.’ John Cooper, Literary Review
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Cabin Fever launches
02 Apr 2014
Mandy Smith’s saucy memoir of her time as a Virgin air hostess, Cabin Fever, has just launched in Australia in a blaze of publicity.
Excerpts from the book were placed in Virgin flights leaving the Sydney terminal as well as in Virgin staff rooms – apparently the flight attendants loved it and have been sharing the extract with their friends.
There was also an extract here in Business Insider magazine.
There have also been numerous reviews, including the Sun-Herald and The Age.
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Cathy Glass goes straight into Top 5 bestsellers
02 Apr 2014
Cathy Glass’s latest fostering memoir Daddy’s Little Princess has gone straight into the bestseller list at number 4, despite only being on sale for part of the week.
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The Monica Porter story continues to spread
31 Mar 2014
Monica Porter’s sensational memoir Raven: My year of dating dangerously… continues to stir debate. This weekend it featured as a reference point in another Mail story about the sex lives of older people.
‘As 60-year-old Monica Porter’s memoir about having sex with younger men, published in The Mail on Sunday this month, continues to cause a sensation, Miss Sayle hopes to cash in on the desire of middle-aged people ‘to explore their fantasies’.’
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Andrew Lownie remains the world's leading literary agent
31 Mar 2014
Andrew Lownie has consolidated his position as the world’s leading literary agent, with a remarkable 44 deals in the last six months, according to Publishers Marketplace.
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Jessie Childs reviewed in the New Statesman
31 Mar 2014
There’s a great review for Jessie Childs’ God’s Traitors in this week’s New Statesman.
‘….Detailed and absorbing…compelling…God’s Traitors is both a dramatic and thrilling story of fear, faith, courage and deceit and an important exposé of the terror of life as a Catholic in Elizabethan England.’ Anna Whitelock, New Statesman
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The Seymour Scandal to Pegasus
28 Mar 2014
Pegasus have bought US rights in Elizabeth Norton’s The Seymour Scandal, the little-known story of how Queen Elizabeth 1, aged fourteen, fell in love with a man who was attractive, charming and exciting but who was also three times her age, her stepmother’s husband and the most dangerous man in England.
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Wilde's Women to Duckworth
28 Mar 2014
Duckworth have bought World English rights in Eleanor Fitzsimon’s Wilde’s Women , a ground-breaking new book which explores the many rewarding relationships that the writer Oscar Wilde enjoyed with a series of fascinating and accomplished women throughout his life.
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