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  • Vikie Shanks on BBC Radio

    17 May 2016

    Vikie Shanks, author of the inspirational memoir Unravelled, did the newspaper review on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire on Saturday. You can hear it here (starts at 38.00).

  • Croatian island memoir optioned for drama

    16 May 2016

    Anthony Stancomb’s memoirs of moving to the Croatian island of Vis Under a Croatian Sun: From Grey Britain to a Sunny Isle: One Couple’s Dream Comes True and Notes from a Very Small Island have been optioned by Life and Soul Pictures.

  • Film rights sold in Castle of the Eagles

    16 May 2016

    EOne Features have optioned film rights in Mark Felton’s Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini’s Colditz

  • Hartswood option Stalin's Englishman

    16 May 2016

    Hartswood Films, the makers of Sherlock, have optioned drama rights in Andrew Lownie’s Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess.

  • Irreplaceable serialised in the Sunday Mirror

    16 May 2016

    Louise Moir’s powerful new memoir Irreplaceable was serialised this weekend in the Sunday Mirror.

    I want my children to remember their dad as amazing not for his suicide

  • Terrific review for Ithaca

    13 May 2016

    Patrick Dillon’s new historical novel Ithaca, an alternative retelling of the Odyssey, has had a great review from Publishers Weekly.

    ‘Dillon’s vibrant retelling… is as rich as it is complex. This is a smart and highly readable adventure, and a fresh take on a classic story.’

    Full review

  • The Black Door is in London top five

    13 May 2016

    Congratulations to Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac whose The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers is no 5 in the Evening Standard’s non-fiction London Bestsellers.

  • Cathy Glass remains in top twenty

    12 May 2016

    Cathy Glass’s The Silent Cry is no 19 in paperback non-fiction list and has now spent three months in the bestseller lists.

  • Cathy Glass is no 11

    06 May 2016

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose The Silent Cry is no 11 this week.

  • Osprey two book deal for Christian Jennings

    28 Apr 2016

    Osprey have bought UK rights in Christian Jennings’s two wartime histories At War on the Gothic Line: : Fighting in Italy 1944-‘45 (shortly to be published by St Martin’s Press in the US) and Trieste ’45 : First Battle of the Cold War.