News
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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Agency titles make both hardback and paperback Bookseller chart this week
04 May 2013
Congratulations to Kirk Norcross and Emma Donnan whose Essex Boy is no 11 in this week’s Bookseller non-fiction hardback chart and to Cathy Glass whose Please Don’t Take My Baby is no 9 in the paperback non-fiction chart.
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Cathy Glass makes Official Top 50
04 May 2013
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose Please Don’t Take My Baby is no 36 in the UK’s best selling books for the week to 27th April.
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Double page Daily Mail spread on Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice
03 May 2013
Susan Ottaway’s best selling Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne is the subject of a double page spread in the Daily Mail today.
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Essex Boy is no 4 Sunday Times hardback non-fiction
01 May 2013
Congratulations to Kirk Norcross - and his ghost Emma Donnan - whose memoir Essex Boy has gone straight in at no 4 on the Sunday Times hardback non-fiction best seller list this week.
