07 Feb 2014
Christine Lord, author of Who Killed My Son?, was one of the witnesses at the Parliamentary inquiry into UK blood safety into vCJD, generating considerable media interest, including the links below.
07 Feb 2014
Joff Sharpe, author of new business book Who Dares Wins in Business, has written the first of a series of columns for the South China Morning Post:
‘I was sitting in a car outside a branch of Wells Fargo Bank in Washington DC, planning how to rob it at gunpoint, when I decided instead to become a personnel manager working for a vending machine company in Basingstoke, UK. Some people would consider that a strange career bifurcation!’
04 Feb 2014
Ian Graham’s Imposters to Japan
Sean McMeekin’s July 1914 in Czech
04 Feb 2014
Chris Woodford’s Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Secret Science Hidden in Your Home has been bought by Blooomsbury.
04 Feb 2014
Constable have commissioned a sequel to David Long’s Bizarre London. Bizarre Scotland will cover all aspects of Scottish history, from architecture to cookery, from gruesome executions to celebrated ghosts, and from secret Cold War installations to the production of the world’s strongest beer.
26 Jan 2014
BBC History Magazine looks forward to the publication of Jessie Childs’ God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England.
24 Jan 2014
Mark Felton’s book on the American West was one of only a handful of titles recommended by Melvyn Bragg following a debate on Custer’s Last Stand on Radio 4.
23 Jan 2014
Marina Chapman’s new National Geographic documentary was added to Youtube a few weeks ago, and has already racked up more than half a million views.