News
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Life of Henry VIII's wife to John Murray
26 Feb 2014
John Murray have bought world rights in Josephine Wilkinson’s life of Henry VIII’s fifth wife Katherine Howard.
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Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time to Oneworld
26 Feb 2014
UK rights in Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time , a life of the high-ranking British army surgeon found on death in 1865 to have been a woman , by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield has been bought by Oneworld and the drama rights optioned .
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Little Drifters: Kathleen's Story is no 12
25 Feb 2014
Congratulations to Kathleen O’Shea whose Little Drifters: Kathleen’s Story has risen to no 12 in the non-fiction paperback list this week.
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13 Words You Probably Didn't Know Were Coined By Authors
20 Feb 2014
Paul Anthony Jones has written another informative and amusing ‘Haggard Hawks’ piece for the Huffington Post:
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Lots of publicity for Helen Croydon
20 Feb 2014
Helen Croydon was on ITV Daybreak this morning, promoting her sensational new book Screw The Fairytale: A Modern Girl’s Guide to Sex and Love’.
There was also a piece in yesterday’s Independent:
Not the marrying kind: ‘A Modern Girl’s Guide to Sex and Love’And a separate article in the Metro:
Non-monogamy: The 5 sexual relationships rewriting the rule book -
Little Drifters in bestseller list three days after publication
19 Feb 2014
Kathleen O’Shea’s Little Drifters entered the Sunday Times paperback bestseller list at #18 this week after just a partial week of sales from Thursday to Saturday.
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More SAS business tips from Joff Sharpe
18 Feb 2014
Joff Sharpe’s latest business column for the South China Morning Post is out now. Joff’s new book Who Dares Wins in Business was recently released by Thistle Publishing.
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More publicity for 'Haggard Hawks'
18 Feb 2014
Paul Anthony Jones’s fascinating book of etymology, Haggard Hawks and Paltry Poltroons, continues to generate attention. Paul has written a new piece for The Guardian, which was published at the weekend.
From ‘A’ to ‘ampersand’, English is a wonderfully curious language
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10 bizarre Victorian love stories
17 Feb 2014
Jeremy Clay has written another fascinating piece for the BBC, based on his book The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton. Once again, the article quickly became one of the top 5 Most Read and Most Shared stories on the BBC site.
