29 Nov 2016
Congratulations to Roger Howard whose Power and Glory: France’s Secret Wars with Britain and America, 1945-2016 is a Daily Telegraph ‘History Book of the Year’ and has been shortlisted for the Franco-British Society Literary Award 2017.
29 Nov 2016
Congratulations to Nicola Tallis whose Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey is one of the BBC History Magazine’s ‘Books of the Year’. They describe it as “stunning…throws new light on the dramatic life of one of the most tragic figures in history…Drawing on new research, Tallis presents Jane as complex, intelligent, charismatic, radical and, ultimately, courageous.”
23 Nov 2016
David McClure’s sensational book about the royal finances, Royal Legacy, featured heavily this week in an article in the Daily Mirror on the proposed Buckingham Palace repairs.
22 Nov 2016
The inspirational author of Unravelled, Vikie Shanks, was featured this week in the Daily Express.
Former model and single mum Vikie Shanks: Six of my seven children are autistic
21 Nov 2016
Over the weekend, two agency titles published by Thistle Books reached the Amazon top 100 bestseller list: Earth: An Alien Enterprise by Timothy Good, and War Beneath the Sea by Peter Padfield (which reached the top 40).
19 Nov 2016
Can I Let You Go? by Cathy Glass remains in the top 20 - this week at number 17.
16 Nov 2016
Pegasus have bought US rights in Bijan Omrani’s Caesar’s Footprints, the legacy of Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul in 50 BC .
16 Nov 2016
CBS Reality – Saturday 19 November 10pm – The Day I Should Have Died
Author Amanda Wright’s incredible story of survival is told in compelling detail this Sunday when CBS Reality airs an hour long documentary about how John Dickinson strangled her mother and then came after four-year-old Amanda. He lay their lifeless bodies on the bed side by side then set fire to the house before fleeing the scene of the crime.
For the first time on TV, this shocking murder is examined through the testimony of those who were witnesses to what happened and its terrible aftermath. It is based on Amanda’s heartbreaking memoir Without a Mother’s Love, co-written with Katy Weitz, which was published by Blake this year and can be ordered through Amazon.
14 Nov 2016
Korean rights have been sold in Joe Fuhrmann’s Rasputin: The Untold Story.
Hebrew rights have been sold in Danny Orbach’s The Plots Against Hitler.
Chinese rights have been sold in Joff Sharpe’s Who Dares Wins in Business: Doing business the SAS way
14 Nov 2016
UK and Commonwealth rights in Danny Orbach’s acclaimed book on resistance to Nazism The Plots Against Hitler have been sold to Head of Zeus. Houghton have just published in the US.