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  • David Haviland judges WowFactor

    01 May 2013

    David Haviland is one of four literary agents judging the WowFactor 2013 competition for debut authors. The competition is being run by the Cornerstones Literary Consultancy.

    ‘It’s tough for a new writer to break into the publishing arena. But debut writers and self-publishing successes are great publicity hooks so we’re feeling confident and excited about this competition,’ says founder and co-director Helen Corner.

    WowFactor 2013

  • Two agency titles in top 12 non-fiction paperback list

    30 Apr 2013

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose Please Don’t Take My Baby is no 3 only three days after publication and Susan Ottaway whose Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents is at no 12.

  • Lynne Barrett-Lee at TEDx

    30 Apr 2013

    Lynne Barrett-Lee is interviewed after her recent TEDx talk at King’s College London.

    Interview

  • Mum's Way is a best seller

    29 Apr 2013

    Ian Milthorpe and Lynne Barrett-Lee’s Mum’s Way was in the non-fiction Sunday Times chart for 3 weeks from w/e 23rd February- w/e 9th March.

    Other chart positions -

    w/e 23rd Feb- #13 Live Magazine w/e 2nd March- #7 The Sunday Times, #13 The Guardian, #13 Live Magazine w/e 9th March- #13 Live Magazine

  • BBC News features Math On Trial

    28 Apr 2013

    Coralie Colmez’s fascinating book on the misuse of statistics, Math on Trial, has been featured on BBC News:

    Amanda Knox and bad maths in court

  • Atlantis in The Guardian

    27 Apr 2013

    Peter Daughtrey’s astonishing new book, Atlantis and the Silver City, is covered in today’s Guardian. The book, which comes out on Monday, proposes an exciting new theory for the location of Atlantis.

    The Guardian

  • Great review for Daniel Tammet

    27 Apr 2013

  • Emily Lloyd's memoir serialised in Mail on Sunday

    27 Apr 2013

    Emily Lloyd’s memoir Wish I Was There is serialised in tomorrow’s Mail on Sunday

  • The Girl With No Name no 5 in hardback best seller list

    27 Apr 2013

    Congratulations to Marina Chapman, Vanesssa James and Lynne Barrett-Lee whose The Girl With No Name is no 5 in today’s Waterstone’s hardback non-fiction list in the Daily Telegraph

  • The Girl With No Name in Sunday Times best seller list at no 13

    24 Apr 2013

    Marina Chapman and Lynne Barrett-Lee’s The Girl With No Name remains in Sunday Times hardback best seller list at no 13.