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John Blake buy memoir about septicaemia
13 Mar 2017
John Blake have bought World English rights in Starfish by Tom and Nic Ray a powerful love story about the triumph of the human spirit against adversity. Tom Ray, an Exeter University graduate, was working in banking , with one young child and another on the way, when just before his fortieth birthday he was struck down by septicaemia. The result was the loss of his limbs and half his face.
It is a moving account of how he rebuilt his life with the support of his wife against not just psychological and medical challenges but also financial hardship. The story inspired last year’s film ‘Starfish’ featuring Tom Riley (Da Vinci’s Demons, The Collection) as Tom and Joanne Froggatt (Golden Globe Winner, Downton Abbey)as Nic.
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Nobody’s Son is Number 1 in the Sunday Times Paperback Bestsellers for second week
10 Mar 2017
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose latest fostering memoir Nobody’s Son remains at Number One in the Sunday Times non-fiction paperback bestseller list for a second week.
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An interview with Patrick Garrett
10 Mar 2017
Patrick Garrett has given a fascinating interview to Womanthology, on his great aunt Clare Hollingworth, the subject of his book Of Fortunes and War.
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Advance Praise for The Russian Revolution by Sean McMeekin
07 Mar 2017
Some wonderful endorsements for Sean McMeekin’s ground-breaking new book.
“It is a quarter of a century since Richard Pipes published his history of the Bolshevik seizure of power in the Russian empire, and twenty years since Orlando Figes’s A People’s Tragedy. Back then, in the wake of the Soviet collapse, those seemed definitive. But now comes Sean McMeekin with a vivid new account, drawing on fresh evidence and offering an original, geopolitical perspective. The full, shocking extent to which Lenin was a German operative now becomes clear, as does the magnitude of Kerensky’s blunder in not finishing the Bolsheviks off before their “revolutionary defeatism” went viral. McMeekin writes muscular history. His Russian Revolution grips the reader.” —Niall Ferguson, senior fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford
“McMeekin enhances his high reputation in this comprehensively researched, persuasively developed account of the Russian Revolution as a contingent consequence of specific policies and decisions. Russia’s army, economy, and society did not collapse from the structural overstretch of World War I. Instead McMeekin emphasizes the might have beens, the roads not taken, that led to a “hostile takeover” standing as a grim warning against armed prophets promising earthly utopias.” —Dennis Showalter, professor of history, Colorado College
“This is a book that we have been waiting for. The Russian Revolution is an enormous subject, and to write a short and authoritative book on it is very difficult indeed. Sean McMeekin brings many gifts to the task, not the least of which is that he can describe crowd scenes with immediacy. It should count as a classic.” —Norman Stone, author of World War One
“In vivid colors, Sean McMeekin presents a provocative narrative of the 1917 Russian revolutions with an emphasis on the conspiracies, mutinies, and acts of treason behind the scenes of both revolutions. He shows how the revolutions were a direct result of Russia’s involvement in World War I in new ways. It is a book that will generate much debate.” —Eric Lohr, Susan Carmel Lehrman Chair of Russian History and Culture, American University
“The Tsar didn’t fall, he wilted, and this briskly written, fresh take on the revolution sketches the process in poignant detail—orgies, vodka, Rasputin, pogroms, plots, and war on the Eastern Front. McMeekin’s Lenin is more seedy than heroic, his Bolshevik victory an act of treason engineered by a German army that had stuffed a billion dollars in Lenin’s pockets before the bourgeois exile mounted his first barricade in Petrograd.” —Geoffrey Wawro, author of A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
“Sean McMeekin’s new history of the Russian Revolution is, as always with his work, dynamic, compelling, and revisionist, telling the familiar story with vigour, accessibility, and elan but ornamented with fascinating new archival revelations on, amongst other things, German funding of the Bolsheviks.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs
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A prize nomination for Katie in Love
06 Mar 2017
Chloe Thurlow’s sensational novel Katie in Love has been nominated for The People’s Book Prize.
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Patrick Delaforce has been awarded the Chevalier de Legion d'Honneur by France
02 Mar 2017
The historian Patrick Delaforce has been awarded France’s highest honour, the Chevalier de Legion d’Honneur.
Second World War hero who helped liberate Bergen Belsen awarded France’s highest honour
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Two finalists in the People's Book Prize
01 Mar 2017
Two agency titles have been shortlisted for the People’s Book Prize ceremony, which will take place in May: A Life in Death by Richard Venables and Rickshaw by David McGrath. Both books were published by Thistle Publishing.
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Nobody’s Son is Number 1 in the Sunday Times Paperback Bestsellers this week.
01 Mar 2017
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose latest fostering memoir Nobody’s Son has gone straight to Number 1 in the Sunday Times Paperback Bestsellers this week.
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David Long wins Blue Peter Book of the Year
24 Feb 2017
Agency author David Long has been awarded the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2017, for Survivors: Extraordinary Tales from the Wild and Beyond. His second book for Faber & Faber, it includes classic adventures such as Shackleton’s remarkable exploits in the Antarctic as well as more recent examples of personal courage and endurance such as those which inspired the Hollywood blockbusters 127 Hours and The Revenant. From a shortlist drawn up by a professional panel, the winning book was chosen by a vote of primary school children across the UK.
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Gavin Evans interview on 'Mapreaders' with Talk Radio
23 Feb 2017
You can listen again to Gavin Evans fascinating interview with Talk Radio on his new book Mapreaders and Mindreaders.
