News
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Great review for Katharine Quarmby
13 Sep 2013
“Award-winning journalist Katharine Quarmby followed the events at Dale Farm for seven years and was given deep access to the lives of some of its residents. Drawing on press accounts, contemporary documents and interviews she uses the eviction as the starting point for this admirably measured and authoritative portrait of a diverse, isolated and often wilfully misunderstood minority, which is equal in number in the UK to those of Chinese or Bangladeshi origin.”
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Cathy Glass interview in Daily Mirror
12 Sep 2013
Cathy Glass and her daughter Lucy are interviewed in today’s Daily Mirror, as the full version of Will You Love Me? goes on sale.
“I have fostered 200 kids, but Lucy’s eyes were haunted and my heart went out to her - she was destined to be my daughter”
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Clare Mulley event - 17 September
10 Sep 2013
Clare Mulley will give a talk on the life of Christine Granville, and female spies more generally, at the Churchill War Rooms on Tuesday 17th September.
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World War 1 diaries sold to Harper Collins
10 Sep 2013
The Great War Diaries of Charlie May edited by his great-nephew writer Gerry Harrison have been bought by Harper Collins.The diaries, which cover the period November 1915 to May’s death in July 1916, have been used only sparingly - most notably for the 2005 drama The Somme where May is one of the characters . -
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The Ninth Circle into top 100
07 Sep 2013
Dominic Adler’s thriller The Ninth Circle has become the latest bestseller for Thistle Publishing, having broken into the Amazon top 100, and continues to climb.
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Andrew Lownie top agent on Publishersmarketplace
07 Sep 2013
According to Publishers Marketplace’s list of agents internationally across all categories, Andrew Lownie is top with 29 reported deals in six months.
The agency is also first for UK non-fiction with 41 reported deals over the last twelve months - 27 deals ahead of its nearest competitor.
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David Haviland is Rising Star
06 Sep 2013
Congratulations to David Haviland, who has been selected as one of The Bookseller’s Rising Stars of 2013.
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Joyce Mackenzie into France top 100
06 Sep 2013
Joyce Mackenzie’s romantic novel The Gold Mohur Tree has broken into the Kindle top 100 in France, and is at #3 in Historical Fiction.
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The Ninth Circle into top 200
06 Sep 2013
Dominic Adler’s hardboiled new thriller The Ninth Circle has broken into the Amazon top 200, having been launched by Thistle Publishing just a few weeks ago.
