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Sean McMeekin long-listed for Lionel Gerber Prize
24 Jan 2012
Congratulations to Sean McMeekin whose The Russian Origins of the FIrst World War has been long-listed for the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize awarded for books on foreign affairs that deepen public debate on important international issues.
The long list Includes: Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick Kempe; Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson; On China by Henry Kissinger ;The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama and The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures Of Great Powers by Peter Tomsen.
The five-book shortlist will be announced on Monday, February 13, and the winner on Monday, March 12, 2012. The $15,000 award is presented annually by the Lionel Gelber Foundation, in partnership with Foreign Policy Magazine and the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.
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Casey Watson remains in top twenty
20 Jan 2012
Congratulations to Casey Watson whose The Boy No One Loved is no 19 this week.
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The Boy No One Loved is no 13
10 Jan 2012
Congratulations to Casey Watson who remains in the paperback non-fiction best seller list at no 13.
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MJ Trow's Scorpion's Nest to Severn House
09 Jan 2012
Kate Lyall Grant, Publisher of the Creme de la Crime series at Severn House, has bought a fourth title in Mei Trow’s historical crime series featuring Kit Marlowe for publication later this year.
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Two authors in top twenty
05 Jan 2012
Casey Watson’s The Boy No One Loved is no 9 this week and Cathy Glass’s The Night The Angels Came is no 17. Congratulations to both authors and their publishers Harper Collins.
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The Boy No One Loved is no 11
03 Jan 2012
Congratulations to Casey Watson’s whose The Boy No One Loved remains in the paperback non-fiction best seller list at no 11.
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Sean McMeekin wins prize for The Russian Origins of the First World War
01 Jan 2012
Congratulations to Sean McMeekin who has won the 2011 Norman B. Tomlinson Book Prize for his book, The Russian Origins of the First World War awarded annually to the book judged to be the year’s best in English on the First World War. The Tomlinson Prize was originally awarded by the US Branch of the Western Front Association and now is an award of the World War One Historical Association (WW1HA). The other winners over the last decade can be found at: http://www.ww1ha.org/
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TOWIE's Nanny Pat memoirs bought by Sidgwick
23 Dec 2011
Ingrid Connell at Sidgwick has bought the memoirs of Patricia Brooker star of reality show The Only Way Is Essex .
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Rave reviews for The Arrse Guide to the British Army
23 Dec 2011
Major Des Astor’s humorous study of the British Army has been receiving rave reviews, the latest of which from New Books Mag can be found at
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US rights in Peter Daughtrey's book on Atlantis sold to Pegasus
23 Dec 2011
Claiborne Hancock has bought US rights in Peter Daughtrey’s fresh look at the lost city of Atlantis.
