News

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    24 Jul 2014

    Gurpareet Bains’s The Superfood Diet to Holland

    James Davies’s Cracked to Finland

    Timothy Good’s Earth to Germany

    Diana Kader’s Hear My Cry to Poland

    Geoff Roberts’s Stalin’s General to Turkey

    Desmond Seward’s The Hundred Years War to Korea

    Natasha Tormey and Nadene Ghouri ‘s Born into the Children of God to Poland

  • UK rights in Beyond the Call bought by Icon

    24 Jul 2014

    UK rights in Beyond the Call: The Incredible True Story of One American’s Life-or-Death Mission on the Eastern Front in World War II have been sold to Icon. Penguin publish in the US in February.

  • Casey Watson remains in top ten

    24 Jul 2014

    Congratulations to Casey Watson whose The Girl Without a Voice is No.9 this week in the paperback non-fiction list.

  • Under a Croatian Sun is No.1 cricket book

    24 Jul 2014

    Anthony Stancomb’s amusing expat memoir Under a Croatian Sun is the number one cricket book on Amazon.

    Under a Croatian Sun

  • More media coverage for Natacha Tormey

    24 Jul 2014

    Natacha Tormey’s shocking memoir, detailing her childhood within the Children of God cult, continues to generate huge media interest:

     

    TV

    ITV This Morning – interview on Monday 28th July

     

    Radio

    Voice of Russia – pre-recorded panel discussion, broadcast 9th July listen again here

    BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour – live interview Monday 14th July, 9:30am listen again here

    RTE 2FM The Ryan Tubridy Show – live interview 15th July, 10am, listen again here

    Outlook, BBC World Service – live interview Monday 21st July, 12pm, listen again here

    Newstalk Moncrieff – live interview Monday 21st July, 2pm listen again here

    Kiis FM, breakfast program 5-10 mins live phone interview at 9.40pm UK time, Wednesday 23rd July

    ABC Sydney, breakfast program 5-10 mins live phone interview at 10.45pm UK time, date tbc

     

    Press

    Stylist – interview in 1st July issue

    The Sun – interview 23rd July http://bit.ly/1r6ozY9

    Best magazine - mention in general cults feature in 29th July issue

    New! magazine – interview in 8th August issue

    The Independent – interview date tbc

     

    Online

    LiveMagUK – documentary film, filmed, run date tbc

    Best online – interview and giveaway date tbc 

     

  • Vikie Shanks TV interview this morning

    24 Jul 2014

    Vikie Shanks will be interviewed on Irish breakfast television on TV3 at 9.10am this morning.

  • Vikie Shanks put forward for award

    23 Jul 2014

    There was an additional editorial in Best magazine this week, praising the incredible example of Vikie Shanks, and inviting readers to nominate her for the magazine’s Bravest Women Awards.

     
  • Huge publicity for Natacha Tormey

    23 Jul 2014

    Natacha Tormey’s shocking new memoir Born Into the Children of God, the story of her childhood within the notorious cult, has been generating massive media interest, including the following:

    Newstalk radio interview

    The Sun

    BBC Outlook

    Sean Moncrieff show

  • Best magazine feature for Unravelled

    23 Jul 2014

    Best magazine has run a double-page spread on the inspirational Vikie Shanks and her powerful new memoir Unravelled.

  • How Poetry Can Prove a Lifeline

    23 Jul 2014

    Rachel Kelly has written a new piece for the Huffington Post:

    How Poetry Can Prove a Lifeline