News
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Junk DNA selected as Scientific American 'recommended read'
23 Feb 2015
There’s a great review for Nessa Carey’s Junk DNA: A Journey through the Dark Matter of the Genome in the Scientific American, which picks the book as a ‘recommended read’.
‘In chronicling what we know and what we wonder about junk DNA, biologist Carey makes an apt comparison to dark matter. Just as the universe appears to contain mass that we cannot see or understand and yet nonetheless exerts a pull on normal matter, the mysterious parts of our genome have a vital effect on the workings of more straightforward elements of DNA. In fact, far from being useless, genetic rubbish may be what differentiates humans from less advanced species.’
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Three more Julie Shaw books to Harper Collins
22 Feb 2015
Harper Collins have bought three more books in the Hudson family series set on Bradford’s Canterbury estate by Julie Shaw. John’s Girl, the fourth title in the series, tells the tale of Kathleen, a modern-day Cinderella, and is set in 1965. The fifth book The Family: a killer in our Street, is set in the 1970s and tells the story of another branch of the clan - Keith and Shirley Hudson’s brood. The sixth book, Christine, centres around a young mother during the 1980s.
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Cat memoir to Simon & Schuster
22 Feb 2015
Simon & Schuster have bought world rights in Able Seacat Simon by Lynne Barrett-Lee which recounts the adventures of the official ship’s cat aboard the naval Frigate, HMS Amethyst.
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Two new Casey Watson titles to Harper Collins
22 Feb 2015
Harper Collins have bought world rights in two more Casey Watson fostering titles . The thirteenth book in the series, A Voice for Bella, centres round a five-year-old girl taken in because of domestic violence at home while the next book, The Girl Who Never Was, is the story of fourteen-year-old Polish imigrant Adrianna. The books will be published next year.
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Mastermind behind The Great Train Robbery Revealed
20 Feb 2015
Ebury have bought The Secret Train Robber: My Life with the True Mastermind of the Great Train Robbery which promises, after fifty years silence, to reveal the mastermind behind the robbery .
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Gavin Evans in the New Internationalist
20 Feb 2015
Gavin Evans has a fascinating piece in the current New Internationalist on the subject of race science. Gavin launches his new book Black Brain, White Brain tonight.
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Andrew Crofts on Thistle Books
19 Feb 2015
‘As we speak, I am in the process of publishing several different books, one with the very traditional HarperCollins – (“Secret Child”, which I wrote with Gordon Lewis about his childhood in a home for single mothers in Dublin in the Fifties) – one with the selective, bespoke publisher Red Door – (“Chances”, an erotic love story which I ghosted for the author known only as “Penny”) – and one with Thistle Publishing, the enormously successful imprint run by literary agents Andrew Lownie and David Haviland, (“Pretty Little Packages” a novel about people-trafficking and modern slavery which was first published in 2001 under the title “Maisie’s Amazing Maids”).’
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Two Thistle authors in Kindle top 100
19 Feb 2015
M J Trow and Michael Hartland were among the top 100 most-read authors on Kindle in January, with M J Trow in the top 20.
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Chloe Banks into Kindle top 50
19 Feb 2015
Chloe Banks’ debut novel The Art of Letting Go, recently published by Thistle Books, has broken into the Kindle top 50 bestsellers.
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Huge coverage for Terrible Estate Agent Photos
19 Feb 2015
Andy Donaldson’s Terrible Estate Agent Photos has been generating lots of media interest, including the following:
