News
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Front page coverage for Frank Ledwidge
30 May 2013
Frank Ledwidge’s powerful new book Investment In Blood was covered on the front page of The Guardian today:
“The war in Afghanistan has cost Britain at least £37bn and the figure will rise to a sum equivalent to more than £2,000 for every taxpaying household, according to a devastating critique of the UK’s role in the conflict.”
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Lynne Barrett-Lee at TEDx
29 May 2013
Click the link below to see Lynne Barrett-Lee’s fascinating talk at TEDx on the subject of ghostwriting:
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Cathy Glass is no 1 again
29 May 2013
Congratulations to Cathy Glass who remains at no 1 for another week with her memoir Please Don’t Take My Baby.
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Peter Daughtrey on Newstalk
27 May 2013
You can listen again to Peter Daughtrey’s fascinating Newstalk interview with Seán Moncrieff via the following link:
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Agency authors at Asda
27 May 2013
A recent trip to Asda included the pleasurable sight of four agency authors on display: Casey Watson, Cathy Glass, Kris Hollington and Kirk Norcross.
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'Today I’m Alice' chosen for Pan Macmillan promotion
24 May 2013
Today I’m Alice by Alice Jamieson has been chosen for a Pan Macmillan summer reading promotion. The Pan Real Lives Series will feature twenty strong non-fiction backlist e-book titles and Today I’m Alice will appear in July.
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Clare Mulley at 'The Cultural Pick' - 30th May
24 May 2013
Clare Mulley will be talking passionately about false names, false legs, and the discerning Wehrmacht officer’s car of choice… as she tells the story of the charismatic, difficult, courageous Krystyna Skarbek/Christine Granville, Britain’s first female secret agent of WWII and the subject of her latest critically acclaimed biography, The Spy Who Loved (Macmillan, 2012).
Read The Cultural Pick’s review of The Spy who Loved here:
Watch a short clip of Clare Mulley talking about The Spy Who Loved in Café Daquise - London’s famous Polish café where Krystyna Skarbek/Christine Granville was a regular customer:
Tickets for The Cultural Pick Live Edition: Mustered No.6 are available now:
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Marina Chapman in Canada
23 May 2013
Marina Chapman’s author tour of Canada has generated huge media interest, including the following coverage:
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Two Sunday Times best-sellers this week
22 May 2013
Kirk Norcross’s Essex Boy is no 7 in hardback non-fiction.
Cathy Glass’s Please Don’t Take My Baby is no 4 in paperback non-fiction.
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'Math On Trial' on the Today Programme
22 May 2013
The fascinating ‘Math on Trial’ by Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez continues to generate attention, including the following:
Coralie was interviewed on the BBC’s flagship Today Programme: You can listen back here – Coralie’s interview starts at 8.45am.
Coralie was interviewed for the BBC’s More or Less podcast – the interview starts at about 5 minutes in, and is available to download here.
Coralie also did an interview for the Economist.com’s ‘Quick Study’ slot, which is available here.
The ECONOMIST.COM blog Prospero interviewed Coralie here.
