News
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Junk DNA reviewed in New Scientist
09 Feb 2015
There’s a great review of Nessa Carey’s Junk DNA in this week’s New Scientist:
‘A cutting-edge, exhaustive guide to the rapidly changing, ever-more mysterious genome.’
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Chloe Banks continues to climb
09 Feb 2015
Chloe Banks’ debut novel The Art of Letting Go, published by Thistle Books, continues to climb the charts, currently at No.64 in the Kindle bestseller list.
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David Stafford is Australian bestseller
06 Feb 2015
David Stafford’s Spies Beneath Berlin, recently published by Thistle Books, has moved into the Kindle top 5 in Australia, currently at #4.
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RIP Children's Non-Fiction?
06 Feb 2015
Ian Graham - shortlisted for the 2014 Educational Writers’ Award - champions a “Cinderella corner” of publishing.
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How to become a better storyteller
04 Feb 2015
Lynne Barrett-Lee has written a very helpful piece in the current Words With Jam on How to become a better storyteller.
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The Arrival of the Wearable Dating App
04 Feb 2015
Monica Porter has written a fascinating piece for Newsweek on The Arrival of the Wearable Dating App.
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Breadline Britain is Unite’s book of the month for February
04 Feb 2015
Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack’s BREADLINE BRITAIN - The rise of mass poverty has been named Book of the Month by the Unite union.
‘Highly readable. A devastating critique… Lansley and Mack are to be congratulated in assembling in relatively few pages a wealth of information. It is to be hoped that their work helps encourage a debate on poverty at the forthcoming general election.’
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Chloe Banks moves into the Kindle top 100
04 Feb 2015
Chloe Banks’ debut novel The Art of Letting Go has moved into the Amazon top 100 bestsellers.
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New history of public schools to Elliott & Thompson
31 Jan 2015
Mark Peels’ The New Meritocracy. : A History of UK Independent Schools 1979-2014, which charts the momentous changes in private schools over the last thirty-five years, has been bought by Elliott & Thompson.
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Two-book deal for TV vet Jo Hardy with Harper Collins
31 Jan 2015
Harper Collins have bought world rights in the first two books in a series by Jo Hardy star of BBC 2’s “Young Vets” series . Tales from a Young Vet recounts Jo Hardy’s final year of training at the Royal Veterinary College whilst Vet on the Move is the story of her first year travels as a fully-qualified vet.
