08 Jan 2016
Rachel Kelly’s new book Walking on Sunshine is up to No.3 in the Amazon bestseller list (and no.2 in ‘Movers and Shakers’).
07 Jan 2016
Congratulations to Rachel Kelly whose Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness is no 1 in BestMind, Body & Spirit Self Help on Amazon. Her appearance today on Lorraine Kelly can be seen here.
06 Jan 2016
Roger Crowley’s Conquerors was one of the Sunday Times’ History Books of the Year where it was described as “hugely entertaining narrative, which covers the short period from 1488 to 1516 with enormous gusto”
06 Jan 2016
Turkish rights in Nessa Carey’s Junk. Chinese rights in Lawrence James Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British Empire. Polish rights in Casey Watson’s Nowhere to Go.
06 Jan 2016
The video of Helen Croydon taking part in the IAI philosophy festival debate Women and Conquest is now available online.
05 Jan 2016
Peter Padfield has written an interesting piece for Routledge on his two-book series Tide of Empires, recently reissued by Thistle Publishing.
From the Military and Naval History Series… Peter Padfield on Tide of Empires
20 Dec 2015
Biteback have commissioned a life of Robin Butler, former Cabinet Secretary, from MIchael Jago whose life of Clement Attlee they have just published.
20 Dec 2015
An interview with David Lough about his recent book on Churchill’s financial affairs can be found at
20 Dec 2015
Nessa Carey’s The Epigenetics Revolution to Spain and Turkey
Gary Smith’s Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions,Tortured Data and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics to China
Chris Woodford’s Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Secret Science Hidden in Your Home to Korea
20 Dec 2015
Congratulations to David Lough whose No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money was chosen as one of the Daily Mail’s history books of the year:
Andrew Lownie’s Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess was one of three biographies of the year