News
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Huge interest in Tabloid Secrets
23 May 2015
Neville Thurlbeck’s Tabloid Secrets has been generating lots of media coverage, including the following:
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The Spectator reviews Queer Saint
22 May 2015
There’s a very interesting review of Adrian Clark and Jeremy Dronfield’s new book Queer Saint in The Spectator.
‘Peter Watson, the 1930s playboy who wafts in and out of other biographies, at last takes centre stage.’
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The BBC launches The Interceptor
22 May 2015
The BBC One dramatisation of The Interceptor by Cam Addicott with Kris Hollington is set to launch.
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The Observer reviews Vanessa Nicolson
21 May 2015
There was a terrific review of Vanessa Nicolson’s Have You Been Good? in last weekend’s Observer.
‘The grief is searing. In recording her own roles as both daughter and mother, Nicolson has penned a double helix to motherhood. It accounts for the many shades of experience that shouldn’t be, but so frequently are, endured in families, irrelevant of privilege.’
The book is currently #4 in the Evening Standard bestseller list.
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Piu Eatwell writes for The Bookseller
20 May 2015
Piu Eatwell has written a fascinating piece for The Bookseller on the theme of the doppelgänger in modern fiction.
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Two Thistle titles on Kindle 'most-read' list
19 May 2015
Theo Aronson’s Grandmama of Europe was one of the top 50 most-read Kindle titles in April, while Peter Padfield’s War Beneath The Sea was in the top 100. Both are published by the agency’s imprint Thistle Publishing.
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Another good review for A Very Dangerous Woman
19 May 2015
Deborah McDonald and Jeremy Dronfield’s new biography of Moura Budberg A Very Dangerous Woman is getting consistently strong reviews.
‘In this richly romantic biography they also create an artistic, novelistic effect in the telling of her story as, perhaps, she might have liked it to be written. It would certainly have amused her as much as it will entertain the reader.’
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Another good review for Queer Saint
19 May 2015
‘For anyone interested in high culture during the Second World War, this book will make an entertaining and informative read.’
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Grandmama of Europe into Australian Top 10
18 May 2015
Theo Aronson’s Grandmama of Europe has moved into the Top 10 Kindle bestsellers on Amazon Australia.
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Great review for The Spy Who Loved Me
18 May 2015
“Brave and multi-faceted, a mosaic monument to a mistress of deceit.”
