‘Alexander leaves a great journalistic legacy. However, after 40 years of friendship I shall remember him above all as so very lovable. And he had an unforgettable laugh.’

Simon Courtauld remembers Alexander Chancellor in The Spectator. You can read this moving and beautifully written piece here and get your copy of Footprints in Spain by

‘Is there a more surreal way of learning the name of your mother, who vanished when you were four? A woman airbrushed from history.’

The East Anglian Daily Times had a piece on Darling Baby Mine by John De St. Jorre in their Weekend paper. You can read the full piece here: east anglia daily

Lucy Beresford held a brilliant author event at Jaipur Literary Festival. She drew in a fantastic crowd and talked about her recent title Invisible Threads. Please see the above pictures of the event... You can get your copy of Invisible Threads here and Hungry for Love here.

‘One can’t read this book without examining one’s own life: how even a single year of age difference can affect siblings differently: how one child seeks answers in an effort to better understand his life and another chooses to move on, as if the past never existed.’ When John De St. Jorre was in Paris,

‘Simon Courtauld evokes the popular picture of  “country of blood and death, heat and dust, fierce light and deep shade, passionate love and tragic loss”…There is much here to inform and delight.’

Footprints in Spain by Simon Courtuald is reviewed in The Oldie Magazine. You can read the full review here: Portraits of Spain The

“It is a little bit odd because it is something I have lived with all of my life, but didn’t start writing about until much later… As a journalist I am used to writing about other people and I had to write about myself and my family…Because of the way it happened it reads like

Gerald Jacobs speaks to Talk Radio Europe. You can listen to the interview here and get your copy of Nine Love Letters here. 

 We were very sad to hear about the recent passing of Emma Tennant, a co-author of Did We Meet on Grub Street? .

“My life has really been about writing,” she said, “though some think it’s all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd life and marrying all the time.

On Friday night, our author Dr Pam Hirsch was on the One Show discussing the life and work of Phyllis Bottome. You can watch The One Show now here and get your copy of The Constant Liberal here today.