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  • Good reviews for Juliet Barker

    21 Jan 2015

    ‘An accessible and informative read for history enthusiasts and useful for undergraduate students as the most complete modern account of the rising… An engaging and thought-provoking account…’
    History Today

    ‘Barker is meticulous about her research… It is Barker’s great skill in selecting precisely the right small, individual human stories that really bring the past alive.’
    Yorkshire Post

  • Mark Felton on BBC Cambridge

    15 Jan 2015

    Mark Felton was on BBC Cambridge talking about his new book Zero Night. You can listen again here.

  • Rachel Kelly writes for The Oldie

    15 Jan 2015

    Rachel Kelly has written a piece in praise of mothers, in The Oldie.  

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    10 Jan 2015

    Chinese rights in Nessa Carey’s Junk

    Indonesian rights in Marina Chapman and Lynne Barrett-Lee’s The Girl with No Name

    Dutch rights in Randell Hansen’s Disobeying Hitler

  • New Scientist picks Nessa Carey

    08 Jan 2015

    The New Scientist has chosen Nessa Carey’s Junk DNA as one of its books to look forward to in 2015.

    ‘The term “junk DNA” is fast becoming a misnomer as researchers highlight the strange and unexpected roles it can play in everything from hard-to-treat diseases to gene expression. Some are even asking if this genomic “nonsense” could be the source of human biological complexity. Nessa Carey will deserve plaudits if she does as good a job in helping to explain the controversies in this field as she did about the equally hot topic of epigenetics.’

  • BBC interviews Julie Shaw

    08 Jan 2015

    Julie Shaw’s interview with BBC Look North is now available online here (video starts at 19:20).

  • Britannia into top 100

    08 Jan 2015

    Historical novel Britannia: Part I has moved into the Kindle top 100, currently at #65.

  • Britannia moves into top 250

    07 Jan 2015

    Historical novel Britannia: Part I, by Richard Denham and M J Trow, has moved into the Kindle top 250.

  • Praise for Joff Sharpe

    07 Jan 2015

    Robert Swan, the first man to walk to both the North and South poles, has given a warm endorsement of Joff Sharpe, author of Who Dares Wins in Business.

    ‘His book is one I regard very highly for business leadership.’

  • Monica Porter on Online Dating

    07 Jan 2015

    Monica Porter has written a feature for Saga magazine on online dating.