News
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MJ Trow enters Top 50
05 Jul 2013
MJ Trow’s The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade, reissued by Thistle Publishing, has broken into the Amazon top 50 bestsellers.
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St Martin's Press buys North American rights to The Lodger
05 Jul 2013
Louisa Treger’s debut novel The Lodger has sold to St Martin’s Press.
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How To Be A Ghostwriter, featuring Andrew Lownie
05 Jul 2013
Andrew Lownie will be the guest speaker for The Guardian’s course on ghostwriting on 12-13 October 2013.
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How I published a bestseller in just nine days
05 Jul 2013
The background behind this tale, written by Shed Simove in 2011, is one of ambition, attention to detail and marketing – and it reveals secrets for anyone writing a book, or indeed selling any product or service…
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Thistle publishes debut novelist, 84
03 Jul 2013
A Dundee grandmother who tried for 20 years to get her novel in print has finally got a book published — just days before her 84th birthday.
Joyce Mackenzie, who lives in Seaforth Road, based the story of The Gold Mohur Tree on her own experiences living in India. She stayed in Calcutta with her husband Frederick, a jute broker, and started her family there. An excited Joyce said: “I got the usual rejection slips. Then I got the book out the drawer this year, revamped it and Thistle Publishing took it on.”
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Thinking in Numbers recommended by the New Yorker
03 Jul 2013
‘Thinking in Numbers’ has been recommended by the Scientific American and named one of July’s ‘Books to Watch Out For’ by the New Yorker:
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Three Desmond Seward titles sold to US
03 Jul 2013
Pegasus have bought US rights in three Desmond Seward titles:
The Last White Rose: Fear and Paranoia in the Tudor court
Richard III
Henry V
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Pegasus buy US rights in Churchill and Empire
03 Jul 2013
Pegasus have bought US rights in Lawrence James’s Churchill and Empire.
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South African rights sold in Black brain, white brain
03 Jul 2013
South African rights in Gavin Evans’s study of racial science Black brain, white brain have been bought by Jonathan Ball Publishers.
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US rights in Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice to Little Brown
03 Jul 2013
Little Brown have bought US rights in Susan Otaway’s best-selling Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne.
