13 Dec 2012
Cathy Glass’s Damaged is still riding high in the New York Times best seller’s list. and is #5 this week.
12 Dec 2012
UK rights in Peter Padfield’s investigative book Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of World War Two have been sold to Icon for publication next year.
11 Dec 2012
Cathy Glass’s fostering memoir Another Forgotten Child spends a thirteenth week in the top twenty.
11 Dec 2012
Noreen Riols’s quartet of novels set in Second World War Europe, The Ardnakil Chronicles, originally published by Pan, are to be reissued by Bello to tie-in with Macmillan’s publication of her SOE memoir They Shall Not Grow Old next year.
11 Dec 2012
Robert Hutchinson continues his association with Weidenfeld who have just commissioned his life of Thomas Blood famous for attempting to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in May 1671.
11 Dec 2012
David Haviland’s literary trivia collection Between the Lines has been bought by Summersdale for publication next September.
11 Dec 2012
David Haviland’s interview in Words with Jam writing magazine in which he discusses what he is looking for in terms of building his fiction list , together with Andrew Lownie’s latest advice column, can be found at
http://issuu.com/wordswithjam/docs/wwjdecember2012online?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage&pageNumber=37
09 Dec 2012
Officer A’s police memoir The Crime Factory which covered his police career in both the UK and Australia is the subject of an article in the Australian Sunday Times
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/cop-spills-all-on-wa-police/story-e6frg13u-1226532858410
07 Dec 2012
Congratulations to Patrick Dillon whose The Story of Britain, has been short-listed for the The Society of Authors ALCS award.
06 Dec 2012
Congratulations to Gurpareet Bains whose Indian Superspices made Huffington Post’s 50 best cookbooks of 2012.
Further details can be found at :
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/30/best-cookbooks-2012n2217608.html#slide=1822348