News
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Vikie Shanks' daughter writes for Gransnet
25 Jul 2014
Pippa, the daughter of Unravelled author Vikie Shanks, has written a blog for Gransnet.
Understanding autism ‘We hear from 13-year-old Pippa Tompsett, diagnosed as autistic when she was three - and perfectly happy about that ever since! While it’s hard, sometimes, for others to understand exactly what being autistic means, Pippa is determined to climb the mountain that is social understanding.’
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'Charlie May' serialised in the Express
24 Jul 2014
To Fight Alongside Friends: The First World War Diaries Of Charlie May was serialised in the Express at the weekend.
Charlie May’s War: Secret diary of a WWI officer who longed for home
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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:
