13 Dec 2013
Cathy Glass’s new creative writing guide About Writing has gone straight to number one in its Amazon category.
13 Dec 2013
Adrian Michaels reviews Woman Raised by Monkeys, National Geographic’s unusual account of Marina Chapman’s return to the Colombian jungle.
13 Dec 2013
‘Bosnia, writes Christian Jennings at the beginning of his new book, is “still struggling to come to terms with the events that took place from 1992 to 1995.” Central to the attempts to deal with the legacy of the war in the Balkans is the work of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), an organisation that, in 1999, took on the job of identifying the remains of the victims of that bloody conflict. In its mandate, the ICMP assumed the task of helping governments in the region “deal with the enormous problem of persons who had been killed or had gone missing as a result of wars, ethnic conflicts [and] human-rights abuses…”’
12 Dec 2013
Simon Cursey’s shocking account of British undercover operations in Northern Ireland, MRF Shadow Troop, has generated huge coverage following the BBC Panorama investigation.
12 Dec 2013
11 Dec 2013
Jacky Donovan’s shocking memoir of her life as a dominatrix received more coverage in the Sunday papers, including the Star and Express.
11 Dec 2013
Many congratulations to Cathy Glass who was third and fifth respectively in the Sunday Times bestselling memoirs of the year with Please Don’t Take My Baby, published in April, selling 48,145 copies and Will You Love Me? , published in September, selling 40,625 copies.
10 Dec 2013
Sean McMeekin’s July 1914: Countdown to War has been widely reviewed and praised, and was named by Kirkus as one of the best non-fiction books of 2013. Other reviews and coverage include:
New York Times review Publishers Weekly starred review National Review ABC interview Kirkus review FT review Historically Speaking interview …and many more.
“[M]asterful.” —Washington Times
“[McMeekin is] a young, talented historian…. [He] is scrupulously fair and judicious in assigning blame…. McMeekin has written a fascinating and original study of the opening stages of World War I, a book that supersedes, in my view, any previous study of that great topic.” —John P. Rossi, Philadelphia Inquirer
“The historiography of World War I is immense, more than 25,000 volumes and articles even before next year’s centenary. Still, … Sean McMeekin, in July 1914, [offers a] new perspective…. McMeekin has chosen the zoom lens. He opens with a crisp but vivid reconstruction of the double murder in the sunshine of Sarajevo, then concentrates entirely on unraveling the choreography day by day.” —Harold Evans, New York Times Book Review
“[A] superbly researched political history of the weeks between the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of World War I…. McMeekin’s work is a fine diplomatic history of the period, a must-read for serious students of WWI, and a fascinating story for anyone interested in modern history.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Lucid, convincing and full of rich detail, the book is a triumph for the narrative method and a vivid demonstration that chronology is the logic of history.” —The Independent (UK)
09 Dec 2013
NetGalley has selected James Davies’ Cracked - Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good as one of the ten best books of 2013.
“James Davies’ timely expose of the psychiatry industry makes for fascinating and thought-provoking reading. Using his insider knowledge to illustrate for a general readership how psychiatry has put riches and medical status above patients’ well-being, Davies shows a real flair for the polemic, as well as a real sympathy for the senstivity of the subject.”
08 Dec 2013
Marina Chapman is once again featured in the Daily Mail. A new documentary about Marina’s life Woman Raised by Monkeys premieres this Thursday, 12th December, at 9pm exclusively on the National Geographic Channel.