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Authors in the Media – Spring 2026March 31, 2026
Lots of green shoots for our authors as spring arrives. Elliott Gotkine’s The Wrong Guy has had a terrific launch and anniversary burst, with national press, international syndication, television, radio, podcasts and viral coverage all revisiting the extraordinary Guy Goma BBC mix-up twenty years on. The book has been covered in The Telegraph, The Times, … Continue reading Authors in the Media – Spring 2026
Behind the Book: ANYTHING BUT A STILL LIFE by Carole LatimerMarch 19, 2026
Photography in the twentieth century was overwhelmingly a man’s world. Film sets, press junkets and celebrity portrait studios were dominated by male photographers with heavy cameras and bigger reputations. Yet from the mid-1960s onwards, Carole Latimer quietly built a remarkable career photographing some of the most recognisable figures in film, music and theatre. Her memoir, … Continue reading Behind the Book: ANYTHING BUT A STILL LIFE by Carole Latimer
Behind the Book: FAREWELL TO RUSSIA by Joe Luc BarnesMarch 5, 2026
Farewell to Russia is a book about independence. It contains what are essentially 15 coming-of-age stories, charting the journeys of the countries that were born from the ashes of the USSR in 1991. I spent a large part of the mid-2010s engaging in arguments about independence. In 2014, it was Scotland and the Donbas republics; … Continue reading Behind the Book: FAREWELL TO RUSSIA by Joe Luc Barnes