Everest Needs You, Mr Irvine Lecture Tour
From the end of September Julie is undertaking a tour of British theatres with the lecture
Everest Needs You, Mr Irvine.
The interest in what happened to George Mallory and Sandy Irvine close to the summit of Mount Everest in June 1924 is undiminished.
This illustrated talk captures Sandy's brief life, bringing his passion, energy and incredible inventiveness to the fore.
Dates and venues
When the Children Came Home New Book
The launch coverage of When the Children Came Home had been huge, ranging from Woman's Hour on Radio 4
to serialisation in the Mail on Sunday You Magazine and the Daily Express, to Guardian Family and The Lady.
Reviews appeared in the Mail on Sunday (5* from Craig Brown), the Independent, Daily Mail,
Sunday Times, BBC History Magazine, The Week, and in the Weekly News.
The Colonel of Tamarkan: Runner-up in Best Audiobooks of the Year 2010.
The Colonel of Tamarkan was Runner-up in Best Audiobooks of the Year 2010.
Thousands of votes were received for books on the shortlist of 20 and The Colonel
received 12% of the national vote, just 3% behind The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson. The first prize went to Dr Who.
A huge thanks to everyone who voted for The Colonel.
British and Commonwealth War Cemeteries New Book
This book was published by
Shire Books
in July 2010. It looks at the
surprisingly short history of war cemeteries - just 95 years,
from the Crimean to Korea. Fully illustrated. For more details,
click here.
Remembering Fromelles New Book
This commemorative book was published to coincide with the Commonwealth War Graves exhibition
at the Imperial War Museum, London (runs until 30 January 2011) to mark the construction of
the first new CWGC cemetery in over half a century. Fully illustrated and with essays by
some of the archaeologists involved in the excavations and identification processes, it is
a fascinating overview of the project to rebury 250 Australian and British servicemen first
buried by the Germans after the Battle of Fromelles in 1916. For more details,
click here.
The Colonel of Tamarkan New Audio CD
The Colonel of Tamarkan was released as an
Audio CD in 2009.
Abridged by Neville Teller and read by Anton Lesser.
www.chromeaudio.com.
Both audio CDs were featured in the Sunday Times Best of 2009.
Chrome Audio was the only production company with two audio
CDs nominated, which was very exciting.
Stranger in the House Now in Paperback
