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David McClure on royal finances
10 Jun 2016
David McClure has written a very interesting piece for the International Business Times on the royal family’s mysterious finances.
‘They do things differently on Planet Windsor. That’s the term given by Prince Charles’s most recent biographer to the rarefied world inhabited by the royal family. What Catherine Mayer had in mind were the peculiarities and rivalries of court life, but in my experience researching a book on the wealth of the Windsors it also applies to how the royal family is immune to the normal rules of public scrutiny.’
I tried to find out just how rich the royal family is - it’s a well-kept secret
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Todd Crowell on China-Japan hostility
01 Jun 2016
Todd Crowell has written a fascinating new article on the tense situation between China and Japan. “China and Japan are redefining the nature and purpose of the Coast Guard. Americans still think in terms of air-sea rescue or chasing drug smugglers when they think about their Coast Guard. China and Japan think about their Coast Guards in terms of realpolitik. The two nominally civilian services are on the front lines of territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas. Both countries are adding to their coast guard fleets at a breakneck pace. One could almost call it a Coast Guard arms race, except that the vessels are lightly armed if armed at all.”
Todd’s Kindle Single on this subject, The Coming War, was recently published by Thistle Books.
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Mark Felton on the Jeremy Vine Show
31 May 2016
Mark Felton was a guest on the Jeremy Vine Show last week, discussing whether President Obama should apologize to Japan for the atomic bombs. You can listen again here.
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Great coverage for Parliament Ltd in Sunday Times
29 May 2016
Martin Williams’s Parliament Ltd:: A journey to the dark heart of British politics was the subject of a feature
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/peers-4-minute-speech-cost-taxpayer-8-800-lpw5tf2vz
and book review in Sunday Times today.
“Eye-popping analysis of politicians’ finances … a fascinating and important work.”
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Andrew Lownie second top selling agent in world
28 May 2016
According to publishersmarketplace, Andrew Lownie is the second top selling agent in the world with thirty three deals in the last six months just behind Jill Marsal , who specialises in women’s romance, at thirty six.
He is also
1 in International rights: UK Non-fiction 2 in Non-fiction: History/Politics/Current Affairs 2 in Biography 3 in Reference -
Shadow State reviewed in Evening Standard
28 May 2016
Wonderful review of Alan White’s Shadow State: Inside The Secret Companies That Run Britain in Evening Standard
”..this powerful account of the impact of the privatisation of public services in this country,..this book is worth reading…a timely and important analysis of this often overlooked feature of public life.”
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
27 May 2016
Chinese rights in Lawrence James’s Churchill and Empire and Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa, 1830-1980.
US rights in Desmond Seward’s Henry V.
Polish rights in Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers.
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Paedophile memoir to Mirror Books
27 May 2016
Mirror Books have bought World English rights in Alice Wells’s Eating the Elephant, a mother’s account of the impact of a husband’s devastating addiction to internet child pornography and how this dark world reached right into the heart of her own home. They publish in July.
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Good review for ITHACA in Booklist
27 May 2016
Patrick Dillon’s new novel Ithaca, an imaginative retelling of the Odyssey, has had another terrific review, this time from Booklist.
“Dillon has done an excellent job of reimagining the end of The Odyssey and charting Telemachus’ growth from a timid youth to a capable young man. The story is smoothly told and suspenseful.”
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Black Brain, White Brain nominated for Media24 award
27 May 2016
Gavin Evans’ book on the myths surrounding intelligence and race Black Brain, White Brain has been nominated for a Media24 award.
