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Casey Watson no 1 kindle author in Amazon's biographies and memoirs
25 Jun 2013
Congratulations to Casey Watson, whose Just a Boy, reached no 1 kindle in biographies and memoirs on Amazon this weekend.
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Gladstone's Library announces Writers-in-Residence Scheme 2014
24 Jun 2013
Now in its third year, the Writers-in-Residence scheme at Gladstone’s Library is going from strength to strength. Following the tremendous success of the last two years, the Library is looking for four writers to take up residence in 2014, following in the footsteps of the 2013 winners: Sarah Perry, Richard Beard, Peter Jukes, Vanessa Gebbie, Katrina Naomi and Angela Topping. Built in 1902 to house the library of pioneering politican and celebrated Prime Minister William E. Gladstone, the Library has twenty-six boutique-style rooms and is the UK’s only residential library. “We are committed to maintaining Gladstone’s legacy of engagement with social, moral and spiritual questions by helping people reflect more deeply on the questions that concern them,” says Peter Francis, Warden of the Library. “This scheme is an extension of that mission.”
Each of the four winning writers will stay at the Library for a month, enjoying full access to the Library’s rich resources and soaking up its wonderfully creative atmosphere. Each writer will keep a blog about their stay, run a creative writing workshop and an ‘Evening With’ event. They will receive full board and lodging, travel expenses and a stipend of £100.00 per week.
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Andrew Lownie celebrates 25 years
22 Jun 2013
To mark the agency’s 25th anniversary, Andrew Lownie held a small celebration last night at Westminster Abbey, to thank all the writers, editors and friends whose talents have contributed to this milestone. Here’s to the next 25 years!
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Little Prisoners no 13 on New York Times e book best seller list
22 Jun 2013
Congratulations to Casey Watson who continues her rise up the New York Times e book charts.
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James Davies's top 10 psychiatry critiques
22 Jun 2013
In today’s Guardian, the author of Cracked selects a battery of books that challenge received wisdom about mental illness and how to treat it:
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Another starred review for Daniel Tammet
19 Jun 2013
Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers has received yet another starred review, this time from Booklist:
“Tammet describes the magical realms he explores in these 25 wonderful essays. Here numbers become portals to “pure possibilities” in the “math of life.”… Admirers of Tammet’s Born on a Blue Day (2007) and Embracing the Wide Sky (2009) will find here fresh reasons to laud the author’s gifts.”
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Zero Night: The Most Daring Great Escape of World War II sold to Icon
18 Jun 2013
Mark Felton’s Zero Night: The Most Daring Great Escape of World War II has been sold to Icon and the documentary rights optioned for development.
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Two agency titles in top 15 non-fiction paperback list
18 Jun 2013
Congratulations to Casey Watson whose Breaking the Silence is no 13 and Cathy Glass whose Please Don’t Take My Baby is no 14 in the paperback non-fiction list this week.
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Criminal London event this Wednesday
18 Jun 2013
Kris and Nina Hollington will be appearing at the Woolfson And Tay bookshop this Wednesday at 7pm to talk about their new book Criminal London. The event is almost fully booked, but there may be a few tickets left.
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Gold Camera Award for Spies Beneath Berlin
18 Jun 2013
The documentary Spies Beneath Berlin, based on the book by David Stafford, has just won the prestigious Gold Camera Award at the 47th U.S. International Film & Video Festival. The book was recently reissued by Thistle Publishing.
