News
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Agency author short-listed for Blue Peter Prize
05 Dec 2016
The individuals in David Long’s Survivors (Faber & Faber) owe their good fortune to luck and perseverance as well as to some extraordinary ingenuity. Now this anthology of true stories, concerning eight escapees from the former East Germany, is on to the Blue Peter Book of the Year shortlist – one of just three titles to be selected by the judges.
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Ghostwriting tips from Katy Weitz
01 Dec 2016
Agency ghost writer Katy Weitz gives her top writing tips here
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David Weston in the Telegraph
29 Nov 2016
David Weston has written an entertaining piece in the Telegraph, in the course of promoting his excellent new novel Luciano’s War.
Kirk Douglas vs Richard Harris: Secrets of the most bitter feud in Hollywood’s golden age
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Agency authors make Times 'Books of the Year'
29 Nov 2016
Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield made the Biography section where it was described as ‘gripping, unusual, moving’ .
Josephine Wilkinson’s Katherine Howard : Tarnished Purity was selected in the history section. The Times felt “this book deserves commendation because of the painful truth it reveals about how women are abused by men and then blamed for the lust they arouse. Good history challenges us to think as much about the present as about the past.”
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Roger Howard shortlisted for the Franco-British Society Literary Award 2017.
29 Nov 2016
Congratulations to Roger Howard whose Power and Glory: France’s Secret Wars with Britain and America, 1945-2016 is a Daily Telegraph ‘History Book of the Year’ and has been shortlisted for the Franco-British Society Literary Award 2017.
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Crown of Blood is a BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
29 Nov 2016
Congratulations to Nicola Tallis whose Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey is one of the BBC History Magazine’s ‘Books of the Year’. They describe it as “stunning…throws new light on the dramatic life of one of the most tragic figures in history…Drawing on new research, Tallis presents Jane as complex, intelligent, charismatic, radical and, ultimately, courageous.”
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Royal Legacy in the Daily Mirror
23 Nov 2016
David McClure’s sensational book about the royal finances, Royal Legacy, featured heavily this week in an article in the Daily Mirror on the proposed Buckingham Palace repairs.
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Vikie Shanks in the Daily Express
22 Nov 2016
The inspirational author of Unravelled, Vikie Shanks, was featured this week in the Daily Express.
Former model and single mum Vikie Shanks: Six of my seven children are autistic
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Two more bestsellers for Thistle Books
21 Nov 2016
Over the weekend, two agency titles published by Thistle Books reached the Amazon top 100 bestseller list: Earth: An Alien Enterprise by Timothy Good, and War Beneath the Sea by Peter Padfield (which reached the top 40).
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Ninth week in bestseller list for Cathy Glass
19 Nov 2016
Can I Let You Go? by Cathy Glass remains in the top 20 - this week at number 17.
