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  • Damaged remains at #26 in the New York Times Bestseller List this week

    24 Jan 2013

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose memoir Damaged remains at #26 in the New York Times e book Bestseller List this week.

  • Rave pre-pub quotes for Maths on Trial

    23 Jan 2013

    Maths on Trial by mother-daughter writing team Coralie Colmez and Leila Schneps and published by Basic on 28th March is already attracting rave reviews including:

    “[A]n entertaining tour of courtroom calculations gone wrong…. The cases they describe are independently interesting, and the mathematical overlay makes them doubly so…. [A]s the problems are unraveled and the correct analyses explained, readers will enjoy a satisfying sense of discovery. Schneps and Colmez write with lucidity and an infectious enthusiasm, making this an engaging and unique blend of true crime and mathematics.” Publishers Weekly

    “Schneps and Colmez are a mother-daughter pair sophisticated in the ways of probability…. The authors…fill out the volume with wonderful accounts of frauds and forgeries…. [T]he authors’ analysis of the recent Amanda Knox case [is] particularly chilling. Required reading for aspiring lawyers, but also intrinsically fascinating in its depiction of the frailty of human judgments.” —Kirkus Reviews

    “The originator of sociology, Auguste Comte, said that applying probability to moral questions was the scandal of mathematics. Math On Trial charts the ambivalent—occasionally disastrous—role that math has played in several classic and some recent legal cases. It vividly shows how the desire for ‘scientific’ certainty can lead even well-meaning courts to commit grave injustice. There ought to be a copy in every jury room.” —Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan, authors of Chances Are…: Adventures in Probability and Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err Is Human

    “Taut and gripping, Math on Trial just might establish a new genre, in which true crime story meets the best of popular science. Utterly absorbing from start to finish.” —Steven Strogatz, Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University, and author of The Joy of x

  • Another Forgotten Child is at #18 in the bestsellers chart.

    23 Jan 2013

    Cathy Glass’s fostering memoir Another Forgotten Child remains in the paperback non-fiction chart for a nineteenth week.

  • 'Thinking in Numbers' enters top ten in France

    23 Jan 2013

    Daniel Tammet continues to enjoy success in France, where L’éternité Dans Une Heure (‘Thinking in Numbers’) has just entered the Livres Hebdo non-fiction bestseller list at number 9, after just 3 days of sales. As a result, the publishers have already ordered a reprint.

  • Kirk Norcross memoir sold to Pan Macmillan

    22 Jan 2013

    Pan Macmillan have bought the autobiography of ‘The Only Way is Essex’ star Kirk Norcross, Essex Boy: My Story , to be published in April 2013.

    One of the original TOWIE cast members, Kirk is portrayed as the good-looking rich kid, splashing out thousands on bottles of champagne and dating glamorous women like Amy Childs and Lauren Pope. But there’s a lot more to Kirk and the reality is that the first 18 years of his life tell a very different story – one he is only now ready to reveal. A childhood marred by poverty as Kirk moved between a hostel and a council house on one of Essex’s toughest estates, left him suffering from panic attacks and crippling self-doubt. Reconciling with his dad, by now a millionaire, thrust him into a very different world – one with its own set of challenges. Writing with complete honesty about the two sides of his Essex life, Kirk talks about his rise to fame on Lime Pictures & ITV2’s hit show TOWIE, his time in the Celebrity Big Brother house, his much-followed romances and who his real friends are.

  • David Day's Antarctica Times Book of the Week

    21 Jan 2013

    Congratulations to David Day whose Antarctica: A Biography was Times Book of the Week.

  • Fanny & Stella Sunday Times lead review

    20 Jan 2013

    Congratulations to Neil McKenna whose Fanny and Stella is lead review today in the Sunday Times. Dominic Sandbrook wrote :

    This rollicking account of the trial of two middle-class cross-dressers unveils one of the most extraordinary legal dramas of the Victorian age… this rich and absorbing book.. McKenna has done a tremendous job of re-creating Victorian London’s gay subculture, weaving newspaper reports, police documents and contemporary diaries into a jolly and rollicking narrative… Fanny and Stella is a cracking read.

  • Agency author's book serialised in Mail on Sunday

    20 Jan 2013

    Tina Renton’s You Can’t Hide: How I Brought My Rapist Stepfather to Justice ghosted by agency author Ruth Kelly finished its two week serialisation in the Mail on Sunday today.

  • John Bradley gives lecture at The Athenaeum

    20 Jan 2013

    John Bradley recently gave a lecture at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on the subject “Debunking Five Myths About the Arab Spring”. The full lecture can be seen here:

    Debunking Five Myths About the Arab Spring

    John Bradley is the author of Behind the Veil of Vice: The Business and Culture of Sex in the Middle East (2010) and Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution (2008).

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    19 Jan 2013

    Turkish rights in Nicholas Best’s Five Days That Shocked The World: An Oral History of Europe at the End of World War Two.

    Korean rights in Christian Wolmar’s railway history Blood, Iron and Gold

    Danish rights in Charlotte Zeepvat’s The Camera and the Tsars: A Romanov Family Album