21 Jan 2013
Congratulations to David Day whose Antarctica: A Biography was Times Book of the Week.
20 Jan 2013
Congratulations to Neil McKenna whose Fanny and Stella is lead review today in the Sunday Times. Dominic Sandbrook wrote :
This rollicking account of the trial of two middle-class cross-dressers unveils one of the most extraordinary legal dramas of the Victorian age… this rich and absorbing book.. McKenna has done a tremendous job of re-creating Victorian London’s gay subculture, weaving newspaper reports, police documents and contemporary diaries into a jolly and rollicking narrative… Fanny and Stella is a cracking read.
20 Jan 2013
Tina Renton’s You Can’t Hide: How I Brought My Rapist Stepfather to Justice ghosted by agency author Ruth Kelly finished its two week serialisation in the Mail on Sunday today.
20 Jan 2013
John Bradley recently gave a lecture at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on the subject “Debunking Five Myths About the Arab Spring”. The full lecture can be seen here:
Debunking Five Myths About the Arab Spring
John Bradley is the author of Behind the Veil of Vice: The Business and Culture of Sex in the Middle East (2010) and Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution (2008).
19 Jan 2013
Turkish rights in Nicholas Best’s Five Days That Shocked The World: An Oral History of Europe at the End of World War Two.
Korean rights in Christian Wolmar’s railway history Blood, Iron and Gold
Danish rights in Charlotte Zeepvat’s The Camera and the Tsars: A Romanov Family Album
18 Jan 2013
Jonathan Conlin’s Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City , to be published by Atlantic in June, has been bought by Counterpoint. for a Fall 2013 release.
18 Jan 2013
Anna Barrington, whose vet memoir Cows, coffee and cling-film, is currently on submission has begun to blog at
18 Jan 2013
Cathy Glass’s Damaged continues its long reign in the New York Times e book best seller lists - this week at no 23.
18 Jan 2013
Daniel Tammet currently has an astonishing three books in Amazon France’s top ten bestsellers. In fact, if it weren’t for the Fifty Shades phenomenon, he would currently be holding positions 1, 2 and 4!