Choice Magazine on Slideshow by Marjorie Ann Watts. Get your copy of the book here today!

Midhurst and Petworth newspaper on Cancer is My Teacher by Lucy O’Donnell. Get your copy of Cancer is My Teacher by Lucy O’Donnell here today!

The Mail on Sunday publishes an extract from Cancer is My Teacher by Lucy O’Donnell. Get your copy here today!

‘With it being the first day of pheasant shooting, Harry claimed to have woken up at the crack of dawn to procure lunch for everyone. He added that, when working with Lucy’s sister Bella at Sotheby’s, he had no idea there was another statuesque blonde in the family, whereupon Stanley Johnson surprised everyone by chipping in with “but piu bella” (“more beautiful” in Italian). ‘”Not the first time an old Etonian is upstaged by a Johnson,” quipped Harry in return.’

Tatler Bystander on the Sotheby’s lunch to celebrate the launch of Cancer is My Teacher by Lucy O’Donnell. Get your copy today!

‘You will at least see the other point of view, regardless of any pressure, instead of being bombarded by propagandist material churned out at every possible substantive opportunity.’

Naim Attallah blogs about the ‘climate-change prophets of doom’ and Taking Morgan by David Rose, The Age of Global Warming by Rupert Darwall and Heaven and Earth by Ian Plimer. Get your copies today! And read the full blog post here.

‘Lucy O’Donnell is a popular lady. Not only was her Cancer is my Teacher book launch jam-packed with just about every toff in Chelsea, Daunt Books sold a record-breaking number of copies on the night (the most at any launch EVER)’

Tatler Bystander Online on the launch of Cancer is my Teacher by Lucy O’Donnell at Daunt Books.  It was a fantastic evening with moving speeches from our Chairman Naim Attallah and Lucy O’Donnell. Get your copy of the book here today!

‘But book prizes are extremely important, especially for writers. My debut, Coconut Unlimited, was a novel about a subject publishers considered niche – hip-hop – and brought out by a small independent press. Getting shortlisted for the 2010 Costa first novel award was the best thing that ever happened to it, creating an awareness for the book, giving it a scope beyond anything I’d imagined.’

Nikesh Shukla for The Guardian: The 2014 Goldsmith’s prize shortlist: why it’s neither ‘creative’ nor ‘daring’.

Coconut Unlimited by Nikesh Shukla is out now. Get your copy here today…

The book is (of course) wonderfully sensitive around the confusion of love…

"I can't tell anyone ... he's my Dad, so I love him" was something I often heard, and the powerlessness, and the guilt of compliance and the unwanted and burdensome sexualization....

For me the strength   of the book came from the 'question and answer' structure you formulated   which made your narrative and responses so immediate and powerful and so honest.

 Of the content of the book I am deeply saddened and appalled.

Seven is such a very, very young child and the assumptions that were made

that self -gratification can  be taken from that child, and then  be called, and sold to the child as  'love',  is so very painful and disturbing.

And then the disbelief and blame from people who cannot face abuse for what it is, all resting on that child as a final double abuse.... Getting up and back to life from that is remarkable...Eton sounds so abusive and appalling too. The cynic in me does not believe, as we are told, that all is now well in Boarding Schools. I have heard some recent stories but we just need the recent leavers to come forwards and tell us and they, for all the reasons you so clearly give, stay quiet...' 

Margaret Laugton on A Humour of Love by Robert Montagu. Get your copy of this harrowing memoir here today.

‘Who, quite frankly, could resist a memoir where the schoolgirl narrator’s friend breathlessly reveals that ‘two teachers and the colonel all sleep together in one big bed’, only to be slapped down: “Grace, you shouldn’t spread rumours. It’s bad for the war effort.”‘

The Spectator reviews Slideshow: Memories of a Wartime Childhood by Marjorie Ann Watts. Get your copy of the book here today!

‘She is now in her 80s, elegant, articulate, and as energetic as someone half her age.’

The Camden Review  gives a fantastic review of Slideshow: Memories of a Wartime Childhood. Get your copy here today!

Old Age by Kit Fraser is out now… Get your copy here  today!

Last night we launched Cancer is My Teacher by Lucy O’Donnell at Daunt Books, Fulham Road. It was a fantastic evening with delicious wine and canapés. Our Chairman said the following of the book:

The more people buy the book the more hope they give for cancer sufferers as they follow Lucy’s example and say no to cancer, and utter the immortal words, ‘You shall not prevail.’

To read the full speech go here. Get your copy of Cancer is My Teacher by Lucy O’Donnell today.