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  • Cathy Glass is no 3

    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.

  • Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan is no 1

    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 & Ireland

  • September Website Statistics

    03 Oct 2011

    There were 9,176 visits to the website in September - 80% of them new visits - with 7,713 unique visitors from 130 countries and 21,376 page views. There are currently just over 3,000 subscribers to the newsletter.

  • The Night the Angels Came rises to no 4

    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.

  • The Night the Angels Came goes straight in at no 9

    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 .

  • August 2011 website statistics

    18 Sep 2011

    There were 9,093 visits to the website in August - over 80% of them new visits - with 7,829 unique visitors from 123 countries and 21,190 page views.

  • Crack house is currently no.2 on iTunes non-fiction chart

    15 Sep 2011

    Crack house is currently no.2 on iTunes non-fiction chart, just behind Derren Brown and above Andrew Marr, Bill Bryson, Mark Kermode and Stephen Fry.

  • Flury of foreign rights deals

    13 Sep 2011

    The weeks before the Frankfurt Book Fair have seen a flury of foreign rights deals including :

    US rights in Christian Wolmar’s The Great Railway Revolution and Japanese and Czech rights in his Engines of War

    Hebrew rights in Daniel Tammet’s Born on a Blue Day.

    Hungarian rights in Celia and John Lee’s The Churchills

    Indonesian rights in Francesca Gould and David Haviland’s Why Dogs Eat Poop and Simplified Chinese in their Horny Lizards and Headless Chickens

    Italian rights in David Stafford’s Mission Accomplished

    Dutch, Croatian and Serbian rights in Shed Simove’s What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex.

    Spanish rights in Adrian Weale’s SS: A New History

  • Three book deal for Cathy Glass in Poland

    13 Sep 2011

    Hachette (Poland) have licensed three Cathy Glass titles - Mummy Told Me Not to Tell, I MIss Mummy and The Night the Angels Came.

    Cassie Harte went to no 1 in Poland with I Did Tell I Did and expectations are high too for Cathy whose The Night the Angels Came is published next week in UK.

  • Cooking the Books with Gurpareet

    13 Sep 2011

    Celebrity chef and nutritionist, Gurpareet Bains presents a new monthly cookery segment “Cooking the Books with Gurpareet” that will be broadcast from BBC Radio London 94.9 FM, starting Saturday October 22 2011.

    Every 3rd Saturday of the month, Gurpareet will cook a dish from a recipe book authored by a Londoner, and brings it in for presenters Sunny & Shay to taste. Gurpareet will discuss the author and concept behind the book as well as go through the recipe in brief.