News
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Cathy Glass still at no 2
28 Sep 2016
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose Can I Let You Go? remains at number 2 in the paperback Sunday Times bestseller list.
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Theo Aronson climbs the charts
27 Sep 2016
Two titles by the ever-popular royal historian Theo Aronson are currently selling well. The King in Love, the story of Edward VII’s mistresses, is currently at #12 in the Kindle bestseller list. And A Family of Kings, about the descendants of Christian IX of Denmark is also in the top 100, at #64.
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New Kindle Single from Nicholas Best
22 Sep 2016
Nicholas Best’s powerful historical novella The Hangman’s Story has just been launched in the Kindle Single store - it’s currently the first book on the homepage.
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Cathy Glass remains at no 2.
21 Sep 2016
Cathy Glass’s Can I Let You Go? is Number 2 again in the Sunday Times non-fiction Paperback Bestsellers list.
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Cathy Glass straight in at no 2
14 Sep 2016
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose new memoir Can I Let You Go? has gone straight into the paperback non-fiction lists at no 2.
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Last Days of Henry V111 to Orion
09 Sep 2016
Orion have bought world rights in an updated edition of Robert Hutchinson’s The Last Days of Henry VIII: Conspiracy, Treason and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant
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Two Thistle Books nominated for The People's Book Prize
07 Sep 2016
Two agency books published through Thistle Publishing have been nominated for The People’s Book Prize. If you have a moment, please do vote:
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Fascinating interview with Matt Wilven
07 Sep 2016
Matt Wilven, whose debut novel The Blackbird Singularity has been longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize, has given a fascinating interview on grief, writing, physics, and more, to Writerful Books.
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Patrick Garrett interviewed by Deutsche Welle
01 Sep 2016
There’s an interesting interview with author Patrick Garrett on his new biography of war reporter Clare Hollingworth in the Deutsche Welle this week.
We are in the midst of an age of upheaval, marked by international crises. Does Hollingworth continue to observe these developments, despite her advanced age, and if so, how does she view them in light of her experiences?
Clare is a few weeks away from her 105th birthday, and she is now quite frail. Long ago she researched many of the themes that are only now achieving major prominence. [Republican presidential candidate] Donald Trump is suggesting that the US should abandon its NATO allies: This was an angle that Clare followed up in the 1960s. Clare was in Israel when the state was founded and all over the Middle East during World War II.
Religion-focused terrorism was a subject she wrote about and in fact was attacked for by academics. Some of her remarks have proved sadly prescient. She wrote about how effective the foot soldier could be against a superpower using the simplest tactics: We see that, too, in the Middle East. Based in China, she wrote about potential tensions in the South China Sea and Pacific long before they were daily news fodder.
As for watching today - she still likes to feel that she is part of the news world and insists on keeping her passport by her bedside and her shoes beside her bed in case she is called out to cover a story. Obviously that isn’t going to happen anymore, but it was what gave her a sense of purpose, and is perhaps one reason for her longevity.
Full interview (in English)
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Great review for Of Fortunes and War
26 Aug 2016
Patrick Garrett’s terrific new biography of journalist Clare Hollingworth, Of Fortunes and War, has received a great review in the South China Morning Post.
‘A gripping account of a restless life that also illuminates profound social changes.’
Book review: the life of Clare Hollingworth, war correspondent
