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  • Dominic Adler into Top 50

    16 Sep 2013

    Dominic Adler’s The Ninth Circle has broken into the Amazon Top 50 bestsellers, and continues to rise, with 100% five-star reviews. The book was launched by Thistle Publishing last month.

    The Ninth Circle

  • The Ninth Circle breaks into fiction top 50

    14 Sep 2013

    Dominic Adler’s gritty thriller The Ninth Circle, published by Thistle, has now broken into Amazon’s top 50 fiction list, and the five-star reviews keep coming.

    The Ninth Circle

  • Jeremy Clay extract in Daily Mail

    13 Sep 2013

    We may think of the Victorians as prudish and prim but, in fact, they enjoyed salacious stories, tittle-tattle and tales of the weird and macabre every bit as much as we do today. Now some of the oddest stories from Victorian newspapers have been collected into a book by author JEREMY CLAY…

    Daily Mail

  • Great review for Katharine Quarmby

    13 Sep 2013

    “Award-winning journalist Katharine Quarmby followed the events at Dale Farm for seven years and was given deep access to the lives of some of its residents. Drawing on press accounts, contemporary documents and interviews she uses the eviction as the starting point for this admirably measured and authoritative portrait of a diverse, isolated and often wilfully misunderstood minority, which is equal in number in the UK to those of Chinese or Bangladeshi origin.”

    Daily Telegraph

  • Cathy Glass interview in Daily Mirror

    12 Sep 2013

    Cathy Glass and her daughter Lucy are interviewed in today’s Daily Mirror, as the full version of Will You Love Me? goes on sale.

    “I have fostered 200 kids, but Lucy’s eyes were haunted and my heart went out to her - she was destined to be my daughter”

    Daily Mirror

  • Clare Mulley event - 17 September

    10 Sep 2013

    Clare Mulley will give a talk on the life of Christine Granville, and female spies more generally, at the Churchill War Rooms on Tuesday 17th September.

    The beauty queen who became Churchill’s favourite spy

  • World War 1 diaries sold to Harper Collins

    10 Sep 2013

    The Great War Diaries of Charlie May edited by his great-nephew writer Gerry Harrison have been bought by Harper Collins.The diaries, which  cover the period November 1915 to May’s death in July 1916,  have been used only sparingly - most notably for the 2005 drama The Somme where May is one of the characters .
  • The Ninth Circle into top 100

    07 Sep 2013

    Dominic Adler’s thriller The Ninth Circle has become the latest bestseller for Thistle Publishing, having broken into the Amazon top 100, and continues to climb.

    The Ninth Circle

  • Andrew Lownie top agent on Publishersmarketplace

    07 Sep 2013

    According to  Publishers Marketplace’s list of agents internationally across all categories, Andrew Lownie is top with 29 reported deals in six months.

    The agency is also first for UK non-fiction with 41 reported deals over the last twelve months - 27 deals ahead of its nearest competitor.