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Mark Felton on the Jeremy Vine Show
31 May 2016
Mark Felton was a guest on the Jeremy Vine Show last week, discussing whether President Obama should apologize to Japan for the atomic bombs. You can listen again here.
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Great coverage for Parliament Ltd in Sunday Times
29 May 2016
Martin Williams’s Parliament Ltd:: A journey to the dark heart of British politics was the subject of a feature
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/peers-4-minute-speech-cost-taxpayer-8-800-lpw5tf2vz
and book review in Sunday Times today.
“Eye-popping analysis of politicians’ finances … a fascinating and important work.”
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Andrew Lownie second top selling agent in world
28 May 2016
According to publishersmarketplace, Andrew Lownie is the second top selling agent in the world with thirty three deals in the last six months just behind Jill Marsal , who specialises in women’s romance, at thirty six.
He is also
1 in International rights: UK Non-fiction 2 in Non-fiction: History/Politics/Current Affairs 2 in Biography 3 in Reference -
Shadow State reviewed in Evening Standard
28 May 2016
Wonderful review of Alan White’s Shadow State: Inside The Secret Companies That Run Britain in Evening Standard
”..this powerful account of the impact of the privatisation of public services in this country,..this book is worth reading…a timely and important analysis of this often overlooked feature of public life.”
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
27 May 2016
Chinese rights in Lawrence James’s Churchill and Empire and Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa, 1830-1980.
US rights in Desmond Seward’s Henry V.
Polish rights in Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers.
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Paedophile memoir to Mirror Books
27 May 2016
Mirror Books have bought World English rights in Alice Wells’s Eating the Elephant, a mother’s account of the impact of a husband’s devastating addiction to internet child pornography and how this dark world reached right into the heart of her own home. They publish in July.
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Good review for ITHACA in Booklist
27 May 2016
Patrick Dillon’s new novel Ithaca, an imaginative retelling of the Odyssey, has had another terrific review, this time from Booklist.
“Dillon has done an excellent job of reimagining the end of The Odyssey and charting Telemachus’ growth from a timid youth to a capable young man. The story is smoothly told and suspenseful.”
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Black Brain, White Brain nominated for Media24 award
27 May 2016
Gavin Evans’ book on the myths surrounding intelligence and race Black Brain, White Brain has been nominated for a Media24 award.
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More coverage for A Life In Death
25 May 2016
Richard Venables’ powerful new police memoir A Life In Death has been receiving lots of press coverage. The book was released last week by Thistle Publishing.
How Hillsborough disaster motivated policeman to help victims of world’s worst tragedies
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New word book to Elliott & Thompson
21 May 2016
Elliott & Thompson have commissioned a new trivia book from Paul Anthony Jones. How Rocks Became Clouds: The Surprising Evolution of 100 Words will be published for Christmas.
