14 Oct 2011
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power, has been named the winner of this year’s Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. The prize is sponsored by Charles Jelavich and is awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (formerly AAASS) for a distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history. The prize carries with it an award of $500.
14 Oct 2011
Nessa Carey’s appearance on the Today programme can be heard at http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9613000/9613257.stm
14 Oct 2011
Nadene Ghouri has become the first ever writer-in-residence at Gladstone’s Library, joined by Stella Duffy Naomi Alderman and Ian Parks. She will blog about her stay, run a creative writing workshop and host an ‘Evening With’ event.
The successful writers were chosen by Katy Guest, Literary Editor of the Independent on Sunday, Sathnam Sanghera, Times columnist and author of If You Don’t Know Me By Now, celebrated novelist and memoirist Rupert Thomson and Charlie Gladstone, great great grandson of William E. Gladstone.
The winners will be officially announced at the National Liberal Club at 6.00pm on Tuesday, 1st November.
11 Oct 2011
The no 1 slot is in sight as Cathy Glass’s The Night the Angels Came, selling 4,748 copies this week, moves to number 2 in the Sunday Times bestseller’s list.
05 Oct 2011
Andrew Lownie latest column in Words with Jam can be found at
http://issuu.com/wordswithjam/docs/wwjoctober2011online?viewMode=magazine&mode=embed
05 Oct 2011
Cathy Glass continues to storm up the paperback non-fiction list with The NIght the Angels Came which, in its third week of publication and in the charts ,moves up to no 3.
04 Oct 2011
Congratulations to Frank Ledwidge whose Losing Small Wars has gone to 36 on Amazon after some excellent reviews by Max Hastings and Alistair Horne and an appearance on Start the Week.
Its Amazon rankings are
1 in Books > History > Countries & Regions 1 in Books > History > Europe 1 in Books > History > Britain & Ireland03 Oct 2011
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27 Sep 2011
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose The Night the Angels Came has shot up to number 4 in the non-fiction paperback bestseller list in its second week of publication.
25 Sep 2011
Congratulations to Cathy Glass who, in a very competitive Christmas market, has gone straight in at number 9 in the PB non-fiction bestseller’s list with The Night the Angels Came .