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Great reviews for The Spy Who Loved
06 Jun 2013
The Spy Who Loved is continuing to generate great reviews. The book is included in the LA Times Summer Books Preview under “Biography and Memoir” here.
Salon.com ran a rave review on Sunday:
“The most frank and comprehensive tribute yet to Christine…likely as substantial a biography as can be written about the woman who began life as Krystyna Skarbek — and it is indeed a thrilling account.”
And there was a starred review from Publishers Weekly:
“Mulley (The Woman Who Saved the Children) gives a remarkable, charismatic woman her due in this tantalizing biography.”
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Words With Jam
06 Jun 2013
Andrew Lownie has two appearances in the current issue of Words With Jam:
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Six weeks in the chart and still in the top 5
04 Jun 2013
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose Please Don’t Take My Baby is no 4 in the paperback non-fiction chart this week.
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Heir Raising
04 Jun 2013
Jo Sandelson’s very funny Heir Raising comic strip now has its own blog, which has been generating lots of interest:
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'Cracked' reviewed in Publishers Weekly
03 Jun 2013
“On the pharmaceutical front, Davies takes aim at Big Pharma’s tendency to “cherry pick” positive clinical trial data to suit its needs. The results are drugs whose curative efficacy is questionable and which sometimes come with serious side effects (such as the “emotional blunting” that occurs in about half of all Prozac users). Further undermining the integrity of the psychiatric profession is the fact that many doctors, having received grants and/or speaking and consulting fees from Big Pharma companies, are essentially prescribing from within the deep pockets of their benefactors. The consequences for patients and the profession are obvious. An eye-opening and persuasive work.”
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More coverage for Frank Ledwidge
03 Jun 2013
There’s been more coverage for Frank Ledwidge’s Investment in Blood in the national press:
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Tales of Two Cities is Sunday Telegraph Book of the Week
03 Jun 2013
“Each chapter of this deceptively accessible book can be read as a self-contained essay, a bright light shone onto a specific area of cultural engagement. Or, read straight through, Tales of Two Cities allows readers to reconsider what “everybody knows”. For, with astonishing ease, Jonathan Conlin performs that most useful, and difficult, of tasks: he makes us see the familiar as though it were new.”
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Frank Ledwidge reviewed in The Independent
03 Jun 2013
Frank Ledwidge’s powerful new book Investment in Blood – The True Cost of Britain’s Afghan War has received a great review in The Independent:
“Nato’s Afghan campaign has not expired yet, but with Britain and those of her allies who have not already left now jostling for the 2014 exit, it is not too early to start the post-mortem. The first, book-length attempt to evaluate British expenditure of blood and treasure, by former frontline military intelligence officer Frank Ledwidge, should become a Defence Academy set text – if, that is, the generals can bear it, because it makes for very grim reading indeed. How much has this war cost us? And what, if anything, has it achieved?”
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Agency grandslam
01 Jun 2013
A recent display at ASDA with all the books by agency authors Cathy Glass, Nigel Holland ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee, Casey Watson, Kris Hollington and Ian Millthorpe.
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Mum's Way on BBC's The One Show
31 May 2013
Ian Millthorpe’s powerful memoir Mum’s Way was featured on The One Show this week. You can watch the film through the link below - the clip starts at about three minutes in.
