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Thistle publishes debut novelist, 84
03 Jul 2013
A Dundee grandmother who tried for 20 years to get her novel in print has finally got a book published — just days before her 84th birthday.
Joyce Mackenzie, who lives in Seaforth Road, based the story of The Gold Mohur Tree on her own experiences living in India. She stayed in Calcutta with her husband Frederick, a jute broker, and started her family there. An excited Joyce said: “I got the usual rejection slips. Then I got the book out the drawer this year, revamped it and Thistle Publishing took it on.”
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Thinking in Numbers recommended by the New Yorker
03 Jul 2013
‘Thinking in Numbers’ has been recommended by the Scientific American and named one of July’s ‘Books to Watch Out For’ by the New Yorker:
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Three Desmond Seward titles sold to US
03 Jul 2013
Pegasus have bought US rights in three Desmond Seward titles:
The Last White Rose: Fear and Paranoia in the Tudor court
Richard III
Henry V
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Pegasus buy US rights in Churchill and Empire
03 Jul 2013
Pegasus have bought US rights in Lawrence James’s Churchill and Empire.
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South African rights sold in Black brain, white brain
03 Jul 2013
South African rights in Gavin Evans’s study of racial science Black brain, white brain have been bought by Jonathan Ball Publishers.
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US rights in Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice to Little Brown
03 Jul 2013
Little Brown have bought US rights in Susan Otaway’s best-selling Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne.
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Croatian island memoir to John Blake
03 Jul 2013
Anthony Stancomb’s memoir Playing in the Sun, about his move to the Croatian island of Vis ,has been bought by John Blake for publication next summer.
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New word origins book to Constable
03 Jul 2013
Constable, who are about to publish Paul Jones’s word origins guide Haggard Hawks & Paltry Poltroons, have just commissioned Jedburgh Justice & Kentish Fire, a fascinating exploration of the origins of 500 English phrases and expressions.
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Bloomsbury buy Super Diet from Gurpareet Bains
03 Jul 2013
Bloomsbury, who published Indian chef Gurpareet Bains’s Indian Superfood, have bought a new book on healthy Indian food Super Diet.
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Book on Prime Ministers and Intelligence to Harper Collins
03 Jul 2013
Richard Aldrich has stayed with Harper Collins for his new book Behind the Black Door: : Secret Intelligence and 10 Downing Street to be delivered next year to tie in with a tv series.
