12 Nov 2013
Casey Watson’s Last Kiss for Mummy is no 3 in the paperback non-fiction chart for a fourth week.
12 Nov 2013
Harper Collins have bought Daddy’s Little Princess , Cathy Glass’s memoir of fostering seven year old Beth.
11 Nov 2013
Bosnia’s Million Bones: Solving the World’s Greatest Forensic Puzzle by Christian Jennings, published by Palgrave MacMillan in the UK and the USA, is out on 26 November.
From Bosnia to Syria: the investigators identifying victims of genocide
“Thousands of people are missing because of conflicts. But DNA advances now make it possible to identify bodies from mass graves, providing evidence to bring warlords to trial – and comfort to bereaved families. A harrowing special report”
11 Nov 2013
Former dominatrix Natalie Rowe is continuing to generate sensational headlines, following the publication of her book Chief Whip, in which she describes her past relationships with the great and the good, including Chancellor George Osborne. George Osborne’s dominatrix friend names her former clients
09 Nov 2013
On Thursday evening, 7 November, in front of a distinguished audience that filled St. Martin’s Hall in St. Martin’s Crypt to capacity, the prestigious Keats-Shelley Essay prize for 2013 was awarded to Eleanor Fitzsimons for her essay ‘The Shelleys in Ireland: Passion masquerading as insight?’.
On presenting the prize to Ms. Fitzsimons, acclaimed novelist and chair of the judging panel Salley Vickers described her winning essay as, ‘a thoughtful, exciting account of political reform’, and spoke of how her own admiration for the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was tainted somewhat by his behaviour towards his first wife, Harriet.
The Keats-Shelley Essay Prize, established in 1998 by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, actively champions and celebrates new voices and emerging writers. In her introduction, Salley Vickers described the essays submitted this year as, ‘rich and various, scholarly and for the most part pleasingly original’.
The winning essay by Eleanor Fitzsimons will be published in the next issue of the Keats-Shelley Review and ties into a wider project, a biography she is working on that examines Harriet Shelley’s fascinating, turbulent and tragic life. Further details of this biography, which is at an advanced stage of research, can be found here (link to book description).
06 Nov 2013
Severn House have bought Girdled Earth, the seventh in M.J. Trow’s historical crime series featuring Christopher Marlowe, and The Blue and the Grey, the first in a new historical crime series set in the 1860s.
05 Nov 2013
Diana Kader’s interview about the experiences which form the basis of her book Hear My Cry on MBC has generated huge press coverage.
Interview (starts about halfway through)
Coverage:
http://almashhad-alyemeni.com/news32400.html
http://alainonline.net/news_details.php?sid=9847
http://yemen-press.com/news23665.html
http://www.albaldnews.com/news5426.html
http://aden-post.com/news/10816/
05 Nov 2013
Congratulations to Casey Watson whose Last Kiss for Mummy is no 3 and Cathy Glass whose Will You Love Me? is no 7 is this week’s paperback non-fiction bestseller list.
05 Nov 2013
There’s more coverage for Jacky Donovan’s sensational memoir Instant Whips and Dream Toppings, including this in the Southampton Echo, and the following in Bella.