20 Dec 2012
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose first book Damaged is at number five in the New York Times ebook bestseller list again this week. Five weeks in the top five .
17 Dec 2012
When Malcolm Castle joined the fire brigade at 18 he expected big things: roaring blazes, heartstopping dramas and rescuing damsels in distress. But life as a country fireman didn’t quite work out that way, as his hilarious new book reveals…
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/365290/Confessions-of-a-Country-fireman-
17 Dec 2012
Spanish rights in Nessa Carey’s popular science book The Epigenetics Revolution
Portuguese rights in Marina Chapman’s memoir The Girl With No Name
Dutch rights in Duncan Falconer’s thriller Assassin
Dutch rights in Shed Simove’s spoof Fifty Shades of Gray
17 Dec 2012
Constable have bought David Long’s anthology Bizarre Britain.
14 Dec 2012
Julian Maclaren-Ross’s Of Love and Hunger was Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime last week.
This week, Radio 4 ran an excellent documentary about his life, called Mr X: Julian Maclaren-Ross.
The programme is available for 6 more days here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p7dd5
There was also an interesting profile in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/07/dj-taylor-rereading-julian-maclaren-ross
14 Dec 2012
Harper Collins have produced this video trailer for Cathy Glass’s Another Forgotten Child:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151144309276394&set=vb.509805005719466&type=2&theater
13 Dec 2012
Shed Simove’s relates his experience of self-publishing his new ‘blank’ book Fifty Shades of Gray in Real Business http://realbusiness.co.uk/news/idiots-in-a-hurry
13 Dec 2012
Cathy Glass’s Damaged is still riding high in the New York Times best seller’s list. and is #5 this week.
12 Dec 2012
UK rights in Peter Padfield’s investigative book Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of World War Two have been sold to Icon for publication next year.
11 Dec 2012
Cathy Glass’s fostering memoir Another Forgotten Child spends a thirteenth week in the top twenty.