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  • Heir Raising

    04 Jun 2013

    Jo Sandelson’s very funny Heir Raising comic strip now has its own blog, which has been generating lots of interest:

    Heir Raising

  • 'Cracked' reviewed in Publishers Weekly

    03 Jun 2013

    “On the pharmaceutical front, Davies takes aim at Big Pharma’s tendency to “cherry pick” positive clinical trial data to suit its needs. The results are drugs whose curative efficacy is questionable and which sometimes come with serious side effects (such as the “emotional blunting” that occurs in about half of all Prozac users). Further undermining the integrity of the psychiatric profession is the fact that many doctors, having received grants and/or speaking and consulting fees from Big Pharma companies, are essentially prescribing from within the deep pockets of their benefactors. The consequences for patients and the profession are obvious. An eye-opening and persuasive work.”

    Publishers Weekly

  • More coverage for Frank Ledwidge

    03 Jun 2013

    There’s been more coverage for Frank Ledwidge’s Investment in Blood in the national press:

    Daily Mail

    Telegraph

  • Tales of Two Cities is Sunday Telegraph Book of the Week

    03 Jun 2013

    “Each chapter of this deceptively accessible book can be read as a self-contained essay, a bright light shone onto a specific area of cultural engagement. Or, read straight through, Tales of Two Cities allows readers to reconsider what “everybody knows”. For, with astonishing ease, Jonathan Conlin performs that most useful, and difficult, of tasks: he makes us see the familiar as though it were new.”

    Full review

  • Frank Ledwidge reviewed in The Independent

    03 Jun 2013

    Frank Ledwidge’s powerful new book Investment in Blood – The True Cost of Britain’s Afghan War has received a great review in The Independent:

    “Nato’s Afghan campaign has not expired yet, but with Britain and those of her allies who have not already left now jostling for the 2014 exit, it is not too early to start the post-mortem. The first, book-length attempt to evaluate British expenditure of blood and treasure, by former frontline military intelligence officer Frank Ledwidge, should become a Defence Academy set text – if, that is, the generals can bear it, because it makes for very grim reading indeed. How much has this war cost us? And what, if anything, has it achieved?”

    Review

  • Agency grandslam

    01 Jun 2013

    A recent display at ASDA with all the books by  agency authors Cathy Glass, Nigel Holland ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee, Casey Watson, Kris Hollington and Ian Millthorpe.

  • Mum's Way on BBC's The One Show

    31 May 2013

    Ian Millthorpe’s powerful memoir Mum’s Way was featured on The One Show this week. You can watch the film through the link below - the clip starts at about three minutes in.

    The One Show

  • Front page coverage for Frank Ledwidge

    30 May 2013

    Frank Ledwidge’s powerful new book Investment In Blood was covered on the front page of The Guardian today:

    “The war in Afghanistan has cost Britain at least £37bn and the figure will rise to a sum equivalent to more than £2,000 for every taxpaying household, according to a devastating critique of the UK’s role in the conflict.”

    Full story

  • Lynne Barrett-Lee at TEDx

    29 May 2013

    Click the link below to see Lynne Barrett-Lee’s fascinating talk at TEDx on the subject of ghostwriting:

    Being Human: Lose your identity for fun and profit

  • Cathy Glass is no 1 again

    29 May 2013

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass who remains at no 1 for another week with her memoir Please Don’t Take My Baby.