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Clients S - Z

Clients S - Z

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Frederick Taylor
Internationally celebrated historian of modern Germany best known for his reappraisal of the bombing DRESDEN and for THE BERLIN WALL, his latest 1939: A People’s History was published by Picador with paperback out May 2020.. THE  BERLIN WALL in a revised and updated edition was published by Bloomsbury in October 2019 for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. www.fredericktaylorhistory.com  

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Vincent Thurkettle
Vincent is a woodsman and adventurer. He is the author of THE WOOD FIRE HANDBOOK – a perennial bestseller from Mitchell Beazley. www.wood-fires.co.uk. Vince’s next book FINDING GOLD is an inspirational memoir about leaving an office job to live by his wits as a treasure hunter and gold panner.

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Charles Timoney
Charles has lived and worked in Paris for the last thirty years. He is the author of PARDON MY FRENCH, A CERTAIN JE NE SAIS QUOI and AN ENGLISHMAN ABOARD, his adventures travelling the length of the Seine from source to sea in a home-made rowing boat and a BBC radio 4 Book of the Week.

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Richard Tomlinson
Richard is the author of the magnificent biography of W.G Grace, AMAZING GRACE; The Man Who was W.G. ‘Biography of the Year’ – E.Standard. In autumn 2018 he published (Pen & Sword Books) LANDRU’S SECRET; the Deadly Seductions of France’s Lonely Hearts serial killer’. Using police archives unexplored since the 1920s, Tomlinson, who has a PhD in French history as well as being an award winning journalist, pieces together the real story of Henri Desiree Landru and comes up with the first convincing explanation of what happened to the ten women and one young man whose bodies were never found. 

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Richard Van Emden
Bestselling author (with the late Harry Patch) of THE LAST FIGHTING TOMMY (300,000 copies sold), BOY SOLDIERS OF THE GREAT WAR and most recently 1918; THE DECISIVE YEAR. He has published fourteen titles about all aspects of the great war and has sold over a million books. His latest,  MISSING; THE NEED FOR CLOSURE AFTER THE GREAT WAR, tells the story of the unbelievable quest for the grave of a downed airman.. www.richardvanemden.com 

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Kate Watson-Smyth
Kate is the award winning blogger www.madaboutthehouse.com and writes a regular column for Red Magazine.. Kate has written about interiors for twenty years and she writes like the friend with a great eye, an awareness of budget and a sense of humour. Her book MAD ABOUT THE HOUSE was published in 2018 and has been the no 1 interiors title ever since going into five editions.A follow up volume MAD ABOUT THE HOUSE; 101DESIGN ANSWERS published in March 2020 by Pavilion.

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Janet White
Janet’s memoir THE SHEEP STELL, with an introduction by Colin Thubron, was first published twenty years ago. It has been brought back into print by Constable 2019. ‘One woman’s gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess’ – Daily Mail – it is a genuine lost classic by a natural writer. At 90 Janet still farms, these days in a remote Somerset valley rather than an uninhabited New Zealand island.

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Judith Wills
Judith has for the past two decades been the go-to writer on diet and healthy eating, selling over a million copies of her books. THE FOOD BIBLE ,which has sold over 250,000 copies internationally, was entirely re-written and updated and re published by White Owl press in 2019.