News
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Red One shortlisted for the British Army Military Book of the Year Award 2011
27 Apr 2011
Congrtulations to Kevin Ivison whose bomb disposal memoir Red One is one of six books shortlisted for the British Army Military Book of the Year Award 2011.
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Little Victim remains at No 20
21 Apr 2011
Congratulations to Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington whose Little Victim remains in the bestseller list for another week.
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Little Victim is no 20
14 Apr 2011
Little Victim by Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington remains in the top twenty paperback non-fiction.
Broken Angel, the latest in the series, has just been commissioned by Simon & Schuster and will be published next spring.
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Little Victim at no 18
01 Apr 2011
Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington’s Little Victim remains in the paperback non-ficton list at no 18.
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Mongolian rights sold in What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex
29 Mar 2011
Shed Simove’s blank book What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex continues to rack up foreign deals with contracts signed this week for Australian, French, German, Spanish and even a Mngolian edition. The book also remains in the news with the latest piece from mediabistro: http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/what-every-man-thinks-about-apart-from-sex-sells-out-first-print-run/27108
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Gurpareet Bains' celebrity fans
27 Mar 2011
Guarpareet Bains has some celebrity fans for his healthy cookbook Indian Superfood - Madonna, Posh, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Hudson. http://www.celebuzz.com/2011-03-25/giveaway-alert-get-hollywood-fit-with-superfood-diet-book-2/
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Roger Beam wins Jerwood Non-fiction Prize
23 Mar 2011
Congratulations to Roger Beam who has won one of the three Jerwood non-fiction awards this year. The £5,000 prize , judged by Clare Armistead, Tristram Hunt and Robert Macfarlane, was awarded for his forthcoming book on SOE in Holland . Previous winners have included Rachel Campbell-Johnson, Daniel Swift, Thomas Wright and Roland Chambers.
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Peter Forbes wins £50,000 Warwick Prize
23 Mar 2011
Many congratulations to Peter Forbes who, at a prize-giving at the Royal Festival Hall last night, was awarded this year’s Warwick Prize. The prize “given biennially for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form” was for his book Dazzled and Deceived.
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/32671
His new book , The Milk of Human Conquest, just going out on submission, looks how lactose tolerance shaped the history of the world.
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Little Victim at no 15
23 Mar 2011
Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington’s Little Victim remains in the paperback non-fiction list at no 15.
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What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex (Blank Inside) is bestseller
18 Mar 2011
Shed Simove’s self-published What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex (Blank Inside) ,
a self-help guide which is completely blank , has been a worldwide success reaching 44 in Amazon over the weekend.
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/14/blank-book-on-what-men-think-about-besides-sex-outsells-harry-po/
The Agency took on Shed’s representation earlier this week and has already sold rights in several territories including Australian rights to Random House (Australia).
