08 Jul 2010
Congratulations to Ben MacFarlane whose new book, Cruise Ship SOS, received widespread coverage in the Mail on Sunday, News of the World and Independent last week.
08 Jul 2010
The French version of Daniel Tammet’s Embracing the Wide Sky ,which he translated himself, has sold more than 60,000 copies in hardcover, making it one of the country’s bestselling books of 2009.
Daniel was invited to an award ceremony in Paris where he met several acamediciens, famous francophone novelists, and the former President Jacques Chirac . You can see a photo here: http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/les-best-sellers-de-l-annee-2009-reunis-au-fouquet-s_857556.html (he’s top right)
22 Jun 2010
Richard Aldrich’s magisterial history of GCHQ published this week has been a top ten history bestseller on Amazon.
22 Jun 2010
Congratulations to James Hannam whose God’s Philosophers is on the longlist of The Royal Society 2010 Prize for Science Books.
22 Jun 2010
Congratulations to Juliet Barker whose book on the English Kingdom in France during the Hundred Years War Conquest enters the paperback non-fiction lists at No 48.
10 Jun 2010
Doug Beattie’s Task Force Helmand is no 48 in paperback non-fiction and Duncan Falconer’s Traitor at no 45 in hardback fiction.
20 May 2010
Duncan Falconer’s Traitor was no 18 last week and is now no 28 in the hardback fiction bestseller list whilst Doug Beattie’s Task Force Helmand was respectively no 32 and no 36 in the paperback bestseller list.
20 May 2010
Congratulations to Marcus Scriven whose Splendour and Squalor has been shortlisted for the Spear’s magazine book award in the ‘family or social history’ category.
10 May 2010
Congratulations to Duncan Falconer whose thriller Traitor is no 22 in the hardback fiction list and Doug Beattie whose second volume of memoir Task Force Helmand is no 50 in the paperback non-fiction list.
10 May 2010
Congratulations to David Craig’s whose Fleeced! How we’ve been betrayed by the politicians, bureaucrats and bankers (Constable) has won this year’s Hammond-Whiteley Journalist of the Year award. Craig has previously won the award for his book Squandered.
Fleeced! exposes how over three trillion pounds - £50,000 for every person in Britain - has been taken from us by the ruling elites. Half was wasted in a splurge of hopelessly-managed public spending in the ‘boom’, while the other half evaporated in the ‘bust’ - siphoned off by city bonuses, vaporised by a collapse in pension savings and extorted to bail out the banks.
The Hammond/Whiteley Awards were established 28 years ago in memory of two Southwest England journalists, John Hammond and Carl Whiteley, who died suddenly within five days of each other in 1982. The prize ,a plaque with the names of winners, is worth £100.