News

  • Great review for Jeremy Clay

    27 Aug 2013

    Jeremy Clay’s fascinating new book The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton has received a terrific review in The Times.

    “If you like black humour you will like Clay’s eclectic compilation.”

    Full review

  • Runaway remains in top ten.

    27 Aug 2013

    Congratulations to Emily Mackenzie and Clifford Thurlow whose Runaway has been S&S’s summer non-fiction hit and is still charting at No. 10 in the Sunday Times chart.

  • Lynne Barrett-Lee launches 'Novel'

    24 Aug 2013

    Lynne Barrett-Lee has launched her new creative writing guide Novel - Plan it. Write it. Sell it through Thistle Publishing. There’s a preview of some of Lynne’s words of wisdom at Urban Writers’ Retreat:

    Lynne Barrett-Lee says: it ain’t over till it’s over

  • Rachel Woods featured in Last-Year Girl

    24 Aug 2013

    Rachel Woods’ new book The Model’s Guide is included in a review of modelling advice through the decades:

    Modelling Advice from the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 2013

  • David Haviland judges Agent's Pick

    23 Aug 2013

    David Haviland selected Jill Darragh’s The Case of the Distant Relative as the winner of this month’s IPR Agent’s Pick competition.

    “This is an intriguing detective mystery, with an excellent sense of the historical period and context, engaging with powerful themes regarding women’s emancipation and domestic abuse.”

  • 'Atlantis' in The Cultural Voyager

    20 Aug 2013

    Peter Daughtrey’s amazing new theory for the location of Atlantis, outlined in his new book Atlantis and the Silver City, is featured in today’s Cultural Voyager:

    Could this be the real Atlantis?

  • The Gold Mohur Tree selling well in France

    20 Aug 2013

    Joyce Mackenzie’s debut novel The Gold Mohur Tree is currently part of Amazon’s Europe-wide summer promotion, and is selling particularly well in France, where it is up to #4 in Historical Fiction:

  • Great review for Caroline Young

    20 Aug 2013

    Caroline Young’s new book The Cool Guide to Edinburgh has received a great review from the Scotland on Sunday’s Spectrum magazine:

  • Thistle launches 'Novel' by Lynne Barrett-Lee

    20 Aug 2013

    Thistle Publishing has launched Lynne Barrett-Lee’s new creative writing guide Novel: Plan it. Write it. Sell it. which is already at #2 in Amazon’s ‘publishing’ bestseller list.

    Novel

  • Dodger - Down Under in Amazon promotion

    17 Aug 2013

    David Weston’s new novel Dodger - Down Under has been selected as part of Amazon’s Summer Sale, and is available for just 99p until the end of August.

    “Delightful Dickensian pastiche. Readers will definitely be clamouring for more.” Mail on Sunday

    “Clever and great fun!” Jeffrey Archer

    “A right ripping yarn. Mr Weston writes ‘trippingly off the tongue’.” Ian McShane

    “I have always thought the Artful Dodger’s story needed telling and now David Weston has told it, in a wonderfully engaging way.” Julian Fellowes

    Dodger - Down Under