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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.”

  • 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.

    Shortlist

  • More coverage for A Life In Death

    25 May 2016

    Richard Venables’ powerful new police memoir A Life In Death has been receiving lots of press coverage. The book was released last week by Thistle Publishing.

    How Hillsborough disaster motivated policeman to help victims of world’s worst tragedies

  • New word book to Elliott & Thompson

    21 May 2016

    Elliott & Thompson have commissioned a new trivia book from Paul Anthony Jones. How Rocks Became Clouds: The Surprising Evolution of 100 Words will be published for Christmas.

  • Voting opens for the People's Book Prize

    20 May 2016

    Voting has opened for the People’s Book Prize 2016, and Chloe Banks’ debut novel The Art of Letting Go is one of the finalists (and needs your vote!).

    People’s Book Prize - The Final

  • ITV Studios option Murder in the Family

    18 May 2016

    ITV Studios have optioned Jeremy Josephs’s Murder in the Family the gripping account of Jersey’s most notorious and fascinating murder case.

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    18 May 2016

    French rights in Cathy Glass’s Another Forgotten Child.

    Polish rights in Catherine Hewitt’s The Mistress of Paris.

    Chinese rights in Christopher Lloyd’s The Story of the World in 100 Species..

    Korean rights in Desmond Seward’s The Hundred Years War.

    Chinese rights in Desmond Seward’s Jerusalem’s Traitor: Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judaea.

    Slovenian rights in Shed Simove’s What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex. Polish rights in Casey Watson’s Skin Deep.

  • The Floating Brothel optioned

    18 May 2016

    Sian Rees’s The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth Century Ship and its Cargo of Female Convicts has been optioned by Pretty Monster with support from Australian Screen.

  • Without a Mother's Love serialised in Mail Online

    18 May 2016

    Amanda Wright’s Without a Mother’s Love written with Katy Weitz is serialised in Mail Online

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3585279/Woman-witnessed-mother-s-murder-just-four-years-old-relives-horrifying-moment-saw-STRANGLED-slept-bed.html

  • Guardian serial for Parliament Ltd

    18 May 2016

    Martin Williams’ Parliament Ltd: A Journey to the Dark Heart of British Politics is serialised in The Guardian today