In 2011 we published political essay Time for Outrage! by Stephane Hessel. Now there’s an exhibition at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf named after the essay. You can read about the exhibition here.

Quartet author and psychotherapist Jane Haynes is on Times Radio now. Listen up here.

Nicola Madge has written a piece about lockdown dogs for the Psychology Today blog. You can read the article here. Nicola Madge is the co-author of Sixty Somethings. Get your copy of Sixty Somethings here today.

“Men marry women they think will never change, she’d said to him once in that bar by the sea. Go on, he replied, expecting an explanation, waiting for a way in. None came, of course…”

We’re delighted Quartet author Venetia Welby’s short story The Bar by the Sea has been published on The London Magazine online. You can read the full story here. Mother of Darkness by Venetia Welby is available here.

‘This is such an entertaining book especially if you did not live through that decade, or like Grace and I were only children. The fashion of Biba, Mary Quant, Ossie Clark, gamine models like Twiggy, the liberating contraceptive pill, hippies, protests and those geometric haircuts by Vidal Sassoon.’

Award winning lifestyle website for women Annabel and Grace reviews Sixty Somethings by Nicola Madge and Paul Hoggart. You can read the full review here and get your copy of the book here.

We’re delighted to announce that Major/Minor by Alba Arikha is now an opera called Blue Electric which will be at the Playground Theatre next week. You can read more details about it here. Alba Arikha’s beautiful memoir Major/Minor is available here now.

Emmanuel Olympitis is interviewed on his new book Marked Cards on BBC Wiltshire on 21st October. You can listen to part one of the interview here. Part two of the interview was on BBC Wiltshire on 22nd October, which you can listen to here. You can get your copy of Marked Cards here.

‘This is just the time of year or, perhaps, this is just the year that this book would appeal to a wider audience. To those of us who are not part of the publishing world, though we may have an interest in it, and now have time on our hands to pick up a book with which the author sets out to entertain and does not only that but intrigues and fascinates. The reader does not have to agree with everything he has done or says. This is a glimpse into how a young man came to this country without very much and made his way. Naim Attallah has lived a wonderful life. This is a diverting read which will banish away the disquiet of our current situation – for a while anyway.’

Love Books, Read Books blog reviews Memories by our chairman Naim Attallah. You can read the full review here and get your copy of the book here today.

James Hanratty is author of the Revised Edition of The Making of an Immigration Judge, get your copy here.

 

“Life is a present; one can’t have enough of it, can one?”

Lesley Blanch 

We’re very pleased to announce that a new Lesley Blanch website has just been launched. It now includes a blog section called Spotlight, named after Lesley Blanch’s column in British Vogue during World War II. The blog will feature archive material and include guest posts by her friends and admirers. It will be a place for all Lesley Blanch related news. Visit the blog here now and read the recent blog post of a Shusha Guppy’s interview with Lesley Blanch…

If you fancy getting a copy of Far to Go and Many to Love: People and Places by Lesley Blanch which we published in 2017, go here.

Nicola Madge has written a piece for Female First listing ten things she’d like her readers to know about her. You can read the article here and get your copy of Sixty Somethings here today.