News
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Book six in Kit Marlowe series to Severn House
13 Apr 2013
Severn House have bought Traitor’s Storm, the latest in M.J. Trow’s historical crime series featuring Christopher Marlowe.
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Hugh Pym's Inside the Banking Crisis to Bloomsbury
13 Apr 2013
Inside the Banking Crisis by Hugh Pym, Chief Economics Correspondent for BBC News, the astonishing story of how Britain’s banking system nearly crashed has been bought by Bloomsbury for publication next year.
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Little Drifters sold to Harper Collins
13 Apr 2013
Kathleen O’Shea’s memoir Little Drifters ghosted by Katy Weitz has been bought by Harper Collins.
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St Martin's buys Company Confessions: The CIA, Secrecy and Memoir Writing
13 Apr 2013
St Martin’s Press have bought US rights in Christopher Moran’s Company Confessions: The CIA, Secrecy and Memoir Writing.
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Andrew Lownie calls for limited licenses
12 Apr 2013
“We also all need to look at limited licences — I suggest ten year licences as with translation — to allow greater control of rights at a time of rapid technological change. It is wrong to sign away rights, many not even known, forever, now that books never go out of print. Naturally, publishers and agents will be reluctant to do so arguing that they should reap the benefits of what they have sown, but ten years should be sufficient to recoup the investment made.”
The full Publishing Perspectives piece can be found here.
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Thistle publishes James Chambers
11 Apr 2013
Thistle Publishing has reissued two of James Chambers’ critically acclaimed biographies. Palmerston and Christopher Wren are now available worldwide in both ebook and paperback format.
‘A rollicking biography, weaving raunch with realpolitik, told with the bold swagger of Palmerston himself.’ Daily Telegraph
‘An excellent introduction to the great man’ Independent on Sunday
‘James Chambers exhibits a keen eye for the social as well as the political nuances of the day … He takes a scholarly and properly sceptical approach to the multifarious sources … best of all, he adopts an elegant, ironic literary style perfectly suited to its subject … the author has the knack of making complex diplomatic issues easily comprehensible … [he] superbly captures both the subtlety behind the bluster of this most magnificent of 19th-century prime ministers and what he calls his “infuriating but convincing air of jovial confidence”’ Andrew Roberts, Sunday Telegraph
‘Engaging biography … Chambers captures the puckish personality of the man and his aristocratic, irreverent, often louche milieu’ Sunday Times
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Kris Hollington interview
11 Apr 2013
Agency author Kris Hollington, whose latest bestseller Unthinkable is generating huge interest, is interviewed in this month’s edition of Words With Jam.
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Amazon promotion for The Great Railway Revolution
11 Apr 2013
Christian Wolmar’s The Great Railway Revolution is currently being promoted in the 100 Books Under £2.99 promotion, and is riding high in the charts.
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Please Don't Take My Baby and I Miss Mummy bundle now available
11 Apr 2013
Two new E book bundles of Cathy Glass’s books are now available for pre-order on Amazon. Both will be released alongside her new book on 25 April .
Below are short forms of the links to the pages:
http://amzn.to/16AYlDo http://amzn.to/10ycRZL
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Sunday Mirror page for Unthinkable
10 Apr 2013
A nice piece in the Sunday Mirror on Kris Hollington’s Unthinkable currently in the best seller lists
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britain-facing-rape-gang-epidemic-1815558
