News

  • Snipcock & Tweed

    09 May 2013

    From the current issue of Private Eye…

  • Cathy Glass is no 1

    08 May 2013

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose Please Don’t Take My Baby is non-fiction paperback no 1 this week.

    Susan Ottaway’s Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents is no 14.

  • Kirk Norcross no 4 in the Sunday Times chart.

    08 May 2013

    Congratulations to Kirk Norcross and Emma Donnan whose Essex Boy is no 9 on the overall chart and no 5 in the Sunday Times non-fiction hardback chart.

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    07 May 2013

    Alan Baker’s novel Dyatlov Pass to Estonia

    Bob Hutchinson’s The Spanish Armada to St Martin’s Press in America

    Ian Millthorpe and Lynne Barrett-Lee’s memoir Mum’s Way to Germany.

  • 3 Agency Books in Amazon's May Promotion

    07 May 2013

    Amazon have selected three agency titles for their May Kindle promotion, which means these books will be promoted through the site and targeted customer emails, and can be sold at just 99p. As a result, all three are riding high in the Amazon charts. All three books are published by Thistle Publishing.

    Churchill & Secret Service Spies Beneath Berlin Conclave

  • Great Review for The Bluffer's Guide to Fatherhood

    07 May 2013

    Paul Merrill’s The Bluffer’s Guide to Fatherhood, which will be published by Thistle Publishing for Father’s Day, has received a great review in the upcoming issue of MADE magazine.

  • James Davies's Cracked serialised in Times

    06 May 2013

    The second extract from James Davies’s Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good runs in the Times today as a front page on T2.

    Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good

  • Karen Woods Wins Award

    04 May 2013

    Congratulations to agency author Karen Woods whose remarkable learning achievements are being recognised with a Learning for Work Individual Award - supported by the National Open College Network (NOCN) - as part of Adult Learners’ Week 18 - 24 May 2013. Karen was working as a cleaning supervisor at Manchester City Council and enrolled on Train to Gain – an initiative to improve literacy and numeracy skills. Karen went on to gain other qualifications and is now a published author of seven novels. An adaptation of her first book Broken Youth will premiere at Manchester’s Lowry Theatre later this year.

  • Times serialisation for 'Cracked'

    04 May 2013

    James Davies’s fascinating new book about the excessive diagnosing of mental disorders, Cracked, has been serialised today in The Times.

    Why Britain is Hooked on Happy Pills

  • 'The Future of Literary Agents' reviewed

    04 May 2013

    At this year’s London Book Fair, Andrew Lownie took part in a panel discussion on The Future of Literary Agents, which has been usefully summarised and reviewed.