04 Nov 2009
‘WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW ?’ [Daily Mail, 16 October 2009] BY JEFFREY ARCHER:
I am reading We Danced All Night by Martin Pugh (Vintage £8.99). This excellent book is a social history of Britain which covers the period between the two World Wars. I was born in 1940, so I find it particularly fascinating. I’d quite forgotten the days before television, refigerators, mobile phones, canned Coca Cola, when we had 240 pennies in the pound, no parking meters and a king was still on the throne.’
04 Nov 2009
It’s been a busy week for Gurpareet Bains, author of the forthcoming Indian Superfood, as he unveiled the world’s healthiest meal - a curry. Some of the extensive world media coverage , much still to come,can be seen as follows: 30/10/2009 Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1223755/Recipe-health-Chef-cooks-cancer-fighting-curry.html Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6465024/Anglo-Indian-chef-creates-worlds-healthiest-curry-a-curry.html Daily Mirror: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/10/30/my-curry-to-beat-cancer-115875-21784047/ Marie Claire: http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/428697/chef-cooks-world-s-healthiest-meal.html BBC Radio 2 with Chris Evans, who said ‘it’s the best curry I have ever tasted in all of my life’. Chris has invited Gurpareet back to cook the curry on air just before Christmas 2009: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nh5m8/ChrisEvans30_102009/ If you start listening from 1hr35mins through to 1hr46mins, you will hear Gurpareet’s interview. 05/11/2009 Heart FM Bedford: http://www.heartbedford.co.uk/article.asp?id=1572873 07/11/2009 BBC Three Counties Radio. Presenter, Matt Deasely is tasting his curry live on air. 09/11/2009 Heart FM Bedford. An in-depth interview with Tony Dibbins and Emily Saint on Heart Breakfast. Tony has already said that the curry ‘is the nicest ever ever ever’ (It was pre-recorded): http://www.heartbedford.co.uk/article.asp?id=1572873 17/11/2009 Neil Morrisey, Charlie Lawson (Rain Man), Michelle McManus and Stephen Jardine will be sampling his curry on STV (Scottish ITV) - . Radio presenters and the general public have also been asking whether Gurpareet’s food is available to buy in the supermarket!!
04 Nov 2009
This piece from The New Yorker about authors doing their own publicity might bring a wry smile
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2009/10/19/091019sh_shouts_weiner
04 Nov 2009
The New York Times of 3rd November profiles Daniel Tammet. It can be found at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03asperger.html
04 Nov 2009
Adam Ockelford’s "The Inner World Of Music" will be transmitted on Tuesday 17th November at 1.30pm on BBC Radio 4, and then repeated on Saturday 21st November at 3.30pm. It’ll also be on the BBC’s iPlayer till 28th November at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
04 Nov 2009
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose The Saddest Girl in the World remains in the top ten paperback non-fiction bestsellers at no 4 - last week she was no 2.
She is joined by Cassie Harte’s I Did Tell, I Did, another misery memoir published by Harper Collins, which comes in straight at no 7.
22 Oct 2009
Cathy Glass’s The Saddest Girl in the World enters the bestselling chart at Number 4.
Doug Beattie’s Task Force Helmand was extracted in a second serial by the News of the World
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/540894/Extract-from-Task-Force-Helmand-by-Doug-Beattie.html
18 Oct 2009
It's official. The agency is the most successful non-fiction agency in the United Kingdom thanks to its brilliant authors.
18 Oct 2009
Randall Hansen’s Fire and Fury has been nominated for this year’s Governor-General’s Award.