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More coverage for Frank Ledwidge
03 Jun 2013
There’s been more coverage for Frank Ledwidge’s Investment in Blood in the national press:
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Tales of Two Cities is Sunday Telegraph Book of the Week
03 Jun 2013
“Each chapter of this deceptively accessible book can be read as a self-contained essay, a bright light shone onto a specific area of cultural engagement. Or, read straight through, Tales of Two Cities allows readers to reconsider what “everybody knows”. For, with astonishing ease, Jonathan Conlin performs that most useful, and difficult, of tasks: he makes us see the familiar as though it were new.”
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Frank Ledwidge reviewed in The Independent
03 Jun 2013
Frank Ledwidge’s powerful new book Investment in Blood – The True Cost of Britain’s Afghan War has received a great review in The Independent:
“Nato’s Afghan campaign has not expired yet, but with Britain and those of her allies who have not already left now jostling for the 2014 exit, it is not too early to start the post-mortem. The first, book-length attempt to evaluate British expenditure of blood and treasure, by former frontline military intelligence officer Frank Ledwidge, should become a Defence Academy set text – if, that is, the generals can bear it, because it makes for very grim reading indeed. How much has this war cost us? And what, if anything, has it achieved?”
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Agency grandslam
01 Jun 2013
A recent display at ASDA with all the books by agency authors Cathy Glass, Nigel Holland ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee, Casey Watson, Kris Hollington and Ian Millthorpe.
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Mum's Way on BBC's The One Show
31 May 2013
Ian Millthorpe’s powerful memoir Mum’s Way was featured on The One Show this week. You can watch the film through the link below - the clip starts at about three minutes in.
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Front page coverage for Frank Ledwidge
30 May 2013
Frank Ledwidge’s powerful new book Investment In Blood was covered on the front page of The Guardian today:
“The war in Afghanistan has cost Britain at least £37bn and the figure will rise to a sum equivalent to more than £2,000 for every taxpaying household, according to a devastating critique of the UK’s role in the conflict.”
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Lynne Barrett-Lee at TEDx
29 May 2013
Click the link below to see Lynne Barrett-Lee’s fascinating talk at TEDx on the subject of ghostwriting:
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Cathy Glass is no 1 again
29 May 2013
Congratulations to Cathy Glass who remains at no 1 for another week with her memoir Please Don’t Take My Baby.
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Peter Daughtrey on Newstalk
27 May 2013
You can listen again to Peter Daughtrey’s fascinating Newstalk interview with Seán Moncrieff via the following link:
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Agency authors at Asda
27 May 2013
A recent trip to Asda included the pleasurable sight of four agency authors on display: Casey Watson, Cathy Glass, Kris Hollington and Kirk Norcross.
