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Pen Press - Our sister imprint, proving that self-published authors can have professional books that sell!
The popular Pen Press title, My Journey to Becoming the First Lady Chelsea Pensioner by Winifred Phillips, was picked up by mainstream publisher Simon and Schuster and received outstanding sales when it was published last month. The book, rebranded as Mum's Army, appeared on the Asda '2 for £7' book offer and rocketed up the charts.
As ever, we are over the moon to see one of our self published titles sell so well and we are now enjoying a close relationship with the mainstream publisher in the hope that they will find another one of our hidden gems. The original Pen Press edition of Winifred's memoir is still available, here. Congratulations, Winifred!
Michael Montgomery's new title, The Owl and the Pussy Cats on poet Edward Lear, was featured in the Daily Mail this week.
The article focuses on the unusual angle the book takes on Lear's life, saying: "Because he never married and his three closest friends were men, it has often been assumed that he was queer in the modern sense. This biography’s chief aim is to demonstrate that he was nothing of the kind."
The full article can be found on the Mail Online website here. The Owl and the Pussy Cats is available as in Kindle format and in Hardback now!
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Recently knighted Sir Bruce Forsyth added his praise to the new Indepenpress novel Men Dancing by Cherry Radford, declaring it 'a great read for Strictly fans'.
Men Dancing, a book combining the passion of dance with the complexity of love, was released on October 29th 2011 to coincide with the new series of Strictly Come Dancing, which Sir Bruce hosts. Amazon bestselling author Louise Voss also added her praise to the novel, stating that she 'couldn't wait to get back to it every time I put it down. Compelling and well-written'
Men Dancing is available NOW from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com and all good bookstores. For updates on the author signings and events, visit Cherry Radford's website here.
Terry White's With Gently Smiling Jaws received huge success in a giveaway with The Evening Standard in August. 13,000 books were given away free to London commuters with the newspaper, selling out completely in just a few hours!
Author Terry White stood alongside the distributors, signing copies of his book as they were handed out to avid readers at mainline train stations across London. With Gently Smiling Jaws is the first book in the Marcus Moon series and it seems that readers can't get enough! After guzzling the free copy on their commute, Londoners are now sweeping into bookstores to get their hands on the next books in the series.
Find out what all the fuss is about and get your copy from Amazon here! Want to read more? Check out Terry's website for more information about the other books in the series.
Norman and Maggie Magowan, authors of the fantastic new Adventures in Yellow series, are proof that hard work pays off in the world of books.
The couple received astounding sales at their first Waterstones event, causing a stir among book buyers in the St Albans branch as they wheeled in the motorbike featured in their travel books. The authors have been taking their books and bikes on tour around the UK, selling copies to eager book-lovers at The Hay On Wye festival in June, and at the British Motorcycle Federation in Peterborough, which they conducted as a charity event for Cancer Research.
Congratulations to Pen Press author Nina Gaskell on her current appearance on the popular cooking and dining TV Show, Come Dine With Me on Channel 4.
Nina's recipes can be found in her book African Fusion Cooking and on the Come Dine With Me website.
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STOPPARD's original Guildenstern, a heart-breaking Newman Noggs and a definitive Lord Peter Wimsey, Edward Petherbridge is one of Britain's finest and most highly respected actors. In a distinguished career spanning more than half a century he has proved equally at home in Greek tragedy and French farce, in Shakespeare and Chekhov, Moliere and O'Neill, Beckett and Bennett, Coward and Kurt Weill. In this fascinating collection of essays, he tells the story of his life in the theatre (low ebbs included), from his first acting lesson, watching Norman Evans in Humpty Dumpty at the Bradford Alhambra, and his early years in 'tatty' rep, through his frustrations and triumphs at the Old Vic under the leadership of Laurence Olivier, to his role in the formation of the democratic Actors' Company and his membership of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Along the way he recounts several 'unscheduled' appearances, in Peter Brook's Oedipus, for instance, and in Wormwood Scrubs as a young conscientious objector. Part memoir and part master class, this unique anthology of prose and poetry, lavishly illustrated throughout by Petherbridge's own artwork and many rare photographs, is a wonderfully entertaining, incisive and often moving exposition of the very heart of the mystery of acting.
Buy Your Copy here.
The latest in the humorous, thrilling Marcus Moon series
Set in London, Wiltshire and Orkney 'There Came a Big Spider' sees the ever-exuberant Marcus Moon attempting to climb the ladder of success at his new company. Bitterly resented by an ambitious colleague who sees him as a rival, they are put together to oversee the design of a large government project. When Marcus is asked to see if he can minimize the adverse ecological effects of the design on the beautiful countryside round the market town of Kingscastle, his work leads him into the hilarious world of office politics, sexual deviance, protest groups and buried treasure. A sometimes zany, always enjoyable plot full of humour and energy, this is the eagerly awaited prequel to the popular Marcus Moon series. Light entertainment at its very best! Buy it here.
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Grieving over the loss of his beloved Charlie, Marcus Moon now focuses his attention on his company, CONDES, as businessman Sir Adrian Driver makes an offer to buy out Moon's company for a cool Congratulations to Chan Ling Yap, as her first novel Sweet Offerings is sold for reprint rights. Marshall Cavendish will 
now handle printing and distribution in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia territories.
Chan Ling Yap was born in Kuala Lumpur. She was educated in Malaysia and subsequently in England where she obtained a PhD in Economics. She lectured at the University of Malaya before joining the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, where she worked for nineteen years. She was the senior commodity expert responsible for rice and Head of the Rice Commodity Group in the Organization. She returned with her English husband and two children to the United Kingdom in late 1997.
Dr Yap has written several technical books and many academic and professional papers. Her book "Fusion Fitness, a guide to modern health and fitness", was published by A& C Black in 2002 and by Hunter House (USA) in March 2003. "Sweet Offerings" is her first novel.
"This is a thought-provoking book that is hard to put down. The author's writing flows easily and it is a very good read. It is a story that merits reading a second time, perhaps even more. I can thoroughly recommend it."
June Hargreaves-Beer, South Central Region
Sweet Offerings, Chan Ling Yap, Indepenpress, Brighton £8.99, ISBN 978-1-906710-98-9 is available to purchase, here.