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July News
Dickie Arbiter’s memoir On Duty with the Queen. , to be published in September, made the front page of the Sunday Mirror . He will be speaking at the Daily Mail literary lunch on 26th September.
Britannia, the new historical novel by Richard Denham and M J Trow, reached #6 in the Kindle bestseller list,
Sabotage Times serialised Ask a Silly Question: Messages from eBay's most troublesome customer, by timewaster Frederick Facedass .
Randal Hansen’s Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after July 20, 1944 is excerpted in the Fall issue of World War II Magazine .
Joyce Mackenzie’s moving debut novel The Gold Mohur Tree reached #33 in the Amazon bestseller list.
To Fight Alongside Friends: The Great War Diaries of Charlie May, edited by Gerry Harrison, was serialised in the Express.
The tragic events of Sonia Oatley’s shocking memoir Bye, Mam, I love you were serialised in the Daily Mail.
Emma O’Reilly’s Race to Truth: Blowing the whistle on Lance Armstrong and cycling's doping culture went to number two on the Irish paperback non-fiction bestseller list and was selected by the Daily Herald as one of the Best Summer Reads of 2014.
Vikie Shanks’, author of Unravelled: The inspirational true story of a journey out of darkness, was interviewed on Ireland AM and TV3, and appeared in Best Magazine who invited readers to nominate her for the magazine’s Bravest Women Awards.
Anthony Stancomb’s amusing expat memoir Under a Croatian Sun: From Grey Britain to a Sunny Isle: One Couple's Dream Comes True was the number one cricket book on Amazon.
The US paperback edition of Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers is currently #12 on the Indie bookshops bestseller list.
Natacha Tormey’s shocking memoir Born into the Children of God: My life in a religious sex cult and my struggle for survival on the outside is continuing to generate lots of media interest, including interviews on This Morning , BBC World Service and Woman’s Hour and spreads in the Sun, New! Magazine and cover story in Bestmagazine
Baroness Trumpington’s memoir Coming Up Trumps, ghosted by Deborah Crewe, was one of the books chosen by David Cameron for his holiday reading
Casey Watson ‘s The Girl Without a Voice was in the top ten paperback non-fiction list throughout the month.
July Sales
UK rights in Beyond the Call: The Incredible True Story of One American’s Life-or-Death Mission on the Eastern Front in World War II have been sold to Icon. Penguin publish in the US in February.
Gurpareet Bains’s The Superfood Diet to Holland
James Davies’s Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good to Finland
Timothy Good’s Earth: An Alien Enterprise to Germany
Diana Kader’s Hear My Cry to Poland
Geoff Roberts’s Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov to Turkey
Natasha Tormey and Nadene Ghouri's Born into the Children of God: My life in a religious sex cult and my struggle for survival on the outside to Poland
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