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Great review for Caroline Young
20 Aug 2013
Caroline Young’s new book The Cool Guide to Edinburgh has received a great review from the Scotland on Sunday’s Spectrum magazine:
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Thistle launches 'Novel' by Lynne Barrett-Lee
20 Aug 2013
Thistle Publishing has launched Lynne Barrett-Lee’s new creative writing guide Novel: Plan it. Write it. Sell it. which is already at #2 in Amazon’s ‘publishing’ bestseller list.
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Dodger - Down Under in Amazon promotion
17 Aug 2013
David Weston’s new novel Dodger - Down Under has been selected as part of Amazon’s Summer Sale, and is available for just 99p until the end of August.
“Delightful Dickensian pastiche. Readers will definitely be clamouring for more.” Mail on Sunday
“Clever and great fun!” Jeffrey Archer
“A right ripping yarn. Mr Weston writes ‘trippingly off the tongue’.” Ian McShane
“I have always thought the Artful Dodger’s story needed telling and now David Weston has told it, in a wonderfully engaging way.” Julian Fellowes
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Daniel Tammet secures starred reviews in all four main book pre-publication magazines
13 Aug 2013
Congratulations to Daniel Tammet who has secured starred reviews in all the four big book publications. - Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly and Booklist - for Thinking in Numbers.
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Derek Paravicini and Adam Ockelford at TEDx
12 Aug 2013
“Born three and a half months prematurely, Derek Paravicini is blind and has severe autism. But with perfect pitch, innate talent and a lot of practice, he became an acclaimed concert pianist by the age of 10. Here, his longtime piano teacher, Adam Ockelford, explains his student’s unique relationship to music, while Paravicini shows how he has ripped up the ‘Chopsticks’ rule book.”
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Runaway remains bestseller
11 Aug 2013
Emily Mackenzie’s Runaway ghosted by Clifford Thurlow remains in the best seller lists for another week.
9 The Sunday Times, 14 The Guardian, 14 Live Magazine,#16 The Bookseller Paperback Non-Fiction.
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No Place to Call Home serialised in Observer
11 Aug 2013
Katharine Quarmby’s book on the travelling community in Britain and abroad, No Place to Call Home, was serialised in the Observer.
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Rachel Woods featured on Model Mayhem
11 Aug 2013
Rachel Woods’ guide to the beauty industry The Model’s Guide has been excerpted this week in Model Mayhem:
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Thistle Books on promotion
06 Aug 2013
Five Thistle novels have been selected for Amazon’s EU Summer Sale, which means they will be promoted Europe-wide, and available for just 0.99 Euros until September 5.
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Terrific reviews for two agency titles
31 Jul 2013
There were two great reviews for agency books in Saturday’s Times:
"A work of meticulous scholarship…" Roy Hattersley on Sean McMeekin’s July 1914
"James, an expert chronicler of imperial history, shows how Churchill never wavered from his belief that the Empire was “a precious asset, not just for Britain, but for civilisation as a whole”. He analyses from this perspective the whole of Churchill’s career, bringing fresh insights even to oft-examined episodes such as the Boer War and Gallipoli. One of the many strengths of his magisterial survey, based on extensive research in primary sources — especially the records of the intelligence services — is its objectivity…. The portrait of the final years is both compelling and sad, as Churchill had unwillingly to come to terms with the fact that, “however loudly the lion roared, it needed America’s permission to pounce”. James has written a pioneering biography of Churchill from a central, specific point of view that reveals his strengths and weaknesses in an entirely new light. It will be of abiding interest to all those concerned with Britain’s past and how it influenced the world in which we live today. " DR Thorpe on Lawrence James’s Churchill and Empire
