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NATIONAL PRESS REVIEWS/FEATURES
News of the World - Midas Man - 22 June 2008
UK Metro – Midas Man – 2 June 2008
The Independent – Midas Man – 2 June 2008
Sunday Express – Midas Man – 1 June 2008
The Sunday Telegraph – Midas Man – 1 June 2008
The Sun – Debt Rescue – 30
May 2008
The Daily Telegraph – A Compost Kind of Girl – 23
May 2008
Bizarre Magazine – A-Z Punishment of Torture – April 2008
The Independent on Sunday – Midas Man – 27 April 2008
The Independent on Sunday - Midas Man 27 April 2008
The Jewish Chronicle – The Magic of Self-Acceptance – 11 April 2008
Publishing News – Hollywood Heat- 11 April 2008
The
International
Express – Wit
and Wisdom of British Prime Ministers 5 April 2008
The Sun – Wit and Wisdom of British Prime Ministers 4 April 2008
FourFourTwo – The Beautiful Game is Over 1 April 2008
Daily Express – Wit and Wisdom of British Prime Ministers 27 March 2008
My Weekly – What’s in the
Queen’s Handbag 29 March 2008
Daily Express – The Girl who Lived
Alone
3
March 2008
The Daily Telegraph - The Beautiful Game
is Over 21 February 2008
The Observer – The Beautiful Game is
Over 17 February 2008
The
Birmingham
Post – The Beautiful Game is Over 7 January 2008
The Lady – The Truth about Cats and
Dogs 5 February 2008
The Times – Corporal Haggis 19
January 2008
The Independent on Sunday – Hancock’s
Last Stand 16 December 2007
Majesty Magazine – What’s in the Queen’s Handbag &
Duke of Hazard December 2007
Yours - What’s in the Queen’s Handbag Issue 24 20 Nov-3 Dec 2007
Sunday Express – The
Jersey
Guardian 18 November 2007
UK Press Gazette – What’s in the Queen’s
Handbag ? 16 November 2007
Daily Express – What’s in the Queen’s Handbag 10 October
2007
The Argus – A Warlock in
Jersey 1 October 2007
FT Magazine – The Betrayed 22 & 23
September 2007
The Times – On Fire 21 September 2007
Metro – Email Survival Guide 26 September 2007
First - The Missing
Arms of Vénus de Milo 17 September 2007
Daily Mail – Debt Rescue 25 August 2007
Mail on Sunday – In Sickness and
in Health 12 August 2007
Woman’s Own – Debt Rescue 6 August 2007
Daily Mail – More Dangerous Ground 4 August 2007
The Sun – Debt Rescue 3 August 2007
Sunday Express – Debt Rescue 29 July 2007
The Weekly News – Debt
Rescue 4 August 2007
Daily Mail – More Dangerous Ground 4 August 2007
Hello! – Debt Rescue 17 July 2007
First Women’s Lifestyle – Debt Rescue 21 July 2007
Daily Express – The Truth About
Cats and Dogs 12 July 2007
The Sunday Telegraph - A Compost
Kind of Girl 8 July 2007
OK ! – More Dangerous Ground 17 July 2007
Evening Standard and Daily Mail – Sixty
Funny Stories 28 and 29 June 2007
Daily Express – A Fatal Obsession 11 June 2007
Best – More Dangerous Ground 29 May 2007
The Times - A Compost Kind of
Girl 18 May 2007
Daily Express - A Compost Kind of
Girl 3 May 2007
The Independent – More Dangerous
Ground 30 April 2007
The Spectator – The Missing Arms
of Vénus de Milo 21 April 2007
Financial Times – More Dangerous Ground 14 & 15 April
2007
Daily Telegraph – A Compost Kind of Girl 9 April 2007
Daily Mail
– Spies, Lies &
Whistleblowers 3 March 2007
Hello ! – Miniature Feasts 12 December 2006
Publishing News – A Compost Kind of
Girl 8 September 2006
Publishing News – In Sickness and in
Health 3
November
Publishing News – More Dangerous Ground 20 October 2006
Sunday Express – Wonderful Wriggly
Worm 22 October 2006
The Catholic Herald – Odd Woman
Out 22 September 2006
Running Fitness Magazine – The 50
Greatest
Marathon Races of all Time August 2006
The Guardian – The
Para
and the Pensioner 5 July 2006
Daily Mail – Duke of Hazard 29 May 2006
The Sunday Times – Duke of Hazard 28 May 2006
Daily Express – Dances with
Sheep 30 May 2006
The People – Duke of Hazard 4 June 2006
Red – Oops! June 2006
The Daily Telegraph – Under Auntie’s
Skirts 27 April 2006
Times Educational Supplement – Robin
Babb: Actor’s Apprentice 5 May 2006
The Independent – Under Auntie’s Skirts 26 April 2006
The Times – The 50 Greatest Marathon
Races of all Time 21 April 2006
The Daily Telegraph – Sensual
Pleasures 4 April 2006
The Sunday Telegraph – A Land Fit for
Criminals 2 April 2006
Sunday Telegraph – A Land Fit for Criminals 26 March 2006
Daily Mail - A Land Fit for Criminals 18 February 2006
The Bookseller – Duke of Hazard 3 March 2006
OK ! Magazine – Sensual
Pleasures 24 January 2006
The Sunday Times – A Land Fit for
Criminals 19 February 2006
The Bookseller – The Revenge of Indian
Peter and Sensual Pleasures
17 February 2006
New Woman – Oops! January 2006
The Independent – Between Worlds
22 March 2005
SIGNIFICANT TV & RADIO
COVERAGE, WEB & LIVE EVENTS
Sandra
Murphy – A Headbanger’s Ball – June
2008
Kerrang! Radio
Michael
Hickey – Single-Handed – May 2008
World Radio
Gary
Webster – Debt Rescue May 2008
BBC1 TV Breakfast Show
Richard
Cuddington – Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
May 2008
World Radio
Karen
Eberhardt-Shelton – A Women’s Guide to
Saving the World – May 2008. Hay on Wye Festival
Trevor
Danby – A Botcher in
France –
May 2008
Living in
France
– frenchentree.com
Alec
Weeks – Under Auntie’s Skirts– April
2008
Wake Up to Wogan BBC Radio 2
Dave
Franklin – Dave’s Tales – March 2008
World Radio
Irene
Thompson – The A to Z of Punishment and
Torture – March 2008 DenofGeek.com
Johnny Brandon – One More Step! – March 2008
World Radio
Karen Eberhardt Shelton – A Women’s
Guide to Saving the World – March
2008 – World Radio
Michael Godley – When Innocence was Bliss March 2008 Sixtyplusurfers.com
Trevor Danby –A Botcher in
France February 2008
Macadam.com and Sixtyplusurfers.com
Alec Weeks – The Loneliest Place January 2008
BBC Radio Sou
thern Counties
Julian Fane – The Fools of God January 2008
World Radio, BBC
Radio
Cornwall
John Samuels – The Beautiful Game is Over January 2008
SKY Sports
Charles Hendray – Hey Diddle Diddle December 2007
Serialization on QS
Weekly.com
John Samuels – The Beautiful Game is Over November 2007
SKY News
Joe Powell – The Life
and Times of a Fall Guy November 2007
BBC 1 TV South East
Today, ITV 1
Meridian
Phil Dampier – What’s in
the
Queen’s Handbag October 2007
ITV ‘This Morning’
Paul Johnson – Email Survival Guide October 2007
BBC 1 TV Breakfast
Show
Phil Dampier - What’s in
the
Queen’s Handbag – October 2007
Nick Ferrari Show
LBC
Holly Williams - A
Warlock in
Jersey – September 2007
ITV ‘
Meridian South’
Paul Johnson - Email
Survival Guide – September 2007
BBC Asian Network,
BBC Radio Guildford, BBC Sou
thern
Counties, BBC Isle of Wight, BBC Radio Berkshire, BBC Radio Solent
Emma Milne - The Truth About Cats and Dogs – August
2007
ITV 1‘
Antony Cotton Show’
Gary Webster Debt Rescue – August 2007
ITV 1 ‘
Antony Cotton Show’
Gary Webster - Debt Rescue – August 2007 SKY TV News,
BBC Radio 5 Live
David Fraser - A Land
Fit for Criminals- July 2007 BBC Radio 4 – The
Today Programme
Viren Swami - The Missing
Arms of Venus de Milo – July 2007
BBC Radio 4, All in Your Mind with Raj Persuad
Gary Webster - Debt Rescue – July 2007 BBC2 TV Working Lunch
Pauline Morgan - Special
Houses – July 2007
Northampton Literary Festival
Vanessa Bailey - Good Hair Guide – July 2007 BBC Radio York, BBC Radio
Southern Counties, BBC Radio Newcastle, World
Radio, Spire FM.
Emma Milne - The Truth
about Cats and Dogs – July 2007
BBC TV Look North
Emma Milne - The Truth about Cats and Dogs – July
2007
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s
Hour
Stephen Harper - A Fatal Obsession – June 2007
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s
Hour
Hemant Kanitkar - Unfettered – May 2007
BBC Asian Radio
Network
James McKenzie - The Mystery of Yamashita’s Map- May 2007
BBC Radio 2, Radio
Scotland,
Northsound Radio
Roger Cook - More Dangerous Ground- May 2007
Brighton International Festival
Roger Cook - More Dangerous Ground - May 2007
Hay on Wye Literary
Festival
Viren Swami - The
Missing Arms of Venus de
Milo – April 2007 BBC Asian
Radio
Bryony Hill - A Compost Kind of Girl – April 2007 World Radio
Bryony Hill - A Compost Kind of Girl – April 2007
UKTV Great Food
Live
Roger Cook - More Dangerous Ground – April 2007
Classic FM
Roger Cook - More Dangerous Ground – April 2007
LBC Nick Ferrari
Show
Roger Cook - More
Dangerous Ground – April 2007
BBC Radio 4 Loose
Ends
Pauline Morgan - Special
Houses – March 2007
ITV This Morning
Roger Cook - More Dangerous Ground - March 2007
Ch 4 Richard &
Judy
PRIZES
The Orwell Prize
Books submitted:
A Land Fit for Criminals by DAVID FRASER
More Dangerous Ground by ROGER COOK
Winners of the 2008 prize will be announced in April 2008.
Reach for the Moon
CYRIL ORNADEL
We were invited by Howard Loxton to submit Cyril Ornadel’s Reach for the Moon to the prestigious Theatre Book Prize 2007. The judges are actress Sian Phillips, theatre critic Claire Allfree and Prof of Cultural Studies at Lancaster University, Jeffrey Richards. The short list will be announced in February 2008.
The Blue Garden
MICHAEL LEVIEN
The Sagittarius Prize:
Runner up 2004
Penalty Chick
BRYONY HILL
Joan Hessian Award (Romantic Novelists Association)
Runner up 2002
The Brass and The Velvet
CHRISTABEL BURNISTON
Author's Club:
Special Mention, 2001
Jonathan Dewhurst - The Lancashire Tragedian
PHILIP AND SUSAN TAYLOR
Theatre Book Prize 2001
