PUBLICITY FOR THE PLIMSOLL SENSATION
National press reviews
2006:
The Sunday Telegraph by Piers Brendon 25 June
The Observer by Simon Garfield 25 June
The Sunday Times by Neil Hanson 25 June
The Sunday Herald by George Rosie 25 June
The Guardian Book of the Week by Geoffrey Moorhouse 1 July
The Economist 6 July
The Times by Iain Finlayson 22 July
The Telegraph by Adam Nicolson 22 July
The Spectator by Sam Leith 22 July
The Glasgow Herald by Hugh MacDonald 22 July
The Independent by Sarah Burton 28 July
The Times and The Daily Telegraph: notices of the Mountbatten Maritime Prize 10 November
The Sunday Times biographies of the year round-up by Jeremy Lewis 26 November
Paperback reviews
2007:
The Sunday Times by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann 13 May
The Observer by Stephanie Cross 13 May
The Independent by Christopher Hirst 15 June
The Times by Ross Leckie 7 July
New Statesman travel piece by Nicolette Jones December 2007
Press interviews
Publishing News by Liz Thomson 3 February
NUMAST Telegraph by Andrew Linington September 2006
Audio interviews
British Library podcast by Colin Wight (available online now)
Oneword radio interview by Paul Blezard
Radio
Radio 4 Book of the Week read by Paul Copley abridged and produced by Jane Marshall 3-7 July
Pick of the Week Radio 4 chosen by Steve Punt 9 July
Radio Bristol Alex Lewis 14 June
Radio Solent Richard Cartridge 29 June
Radio Oxford Alison Bonner 29 June
Radio Cornwall 3 October
Southern Counties Radio Mark Carter 16 October
(Radio previews: The Guardian Sound Bites “WH” 1 July; The Daily Mail Top Choice 1 July;
The Daily Mail Radio Choice Sophie Heath 3 July; The Times Radio Choice Chris Campling 3 July;
Evening Standard Pick of the Night Terry Ramsey 3 July; Radio Times.)
Radio review by Valerie Grove The Oldie
2007:
ANC National Radio (Australia) Fran Kelly 5 February 2007
Radio Derby Alex Trelinksi 2 May repeated 25 June
Radio Cambridge Andy Burrows 4 May
Radio Merseyside Tony Snell 4 May
Radio Wales Jamie Owen 25 July
TV
GMTV Sunday with Geraldine Smith MP 23 July 2006
Local press
Highbury Community Newsletter ‘Highbury Writers’ June 2006
Yorkshire Post by Nicolette Jones 3 July
Bristol Times by Gerry Brooke 4 July
South Shields Gazette by Janis Blower July
Hull Daily Mail by John Markham 24 July
Seaford Gazette 16 August
Camden New Journal and Islington Tribune by Peter Gruner 17 August
Islington Gazette ‘Islington People’ by Jessica Rogers 24 August
2007:
Scarborough Evening News 27 April
Camden New Journal and Islington Tribune by Peter Gruner 23 May
Dublin Evening Herald review 23 June
2008:
Doncaster Star by Martin Herron 1 March
Liverpool Daily Post by Peter Elson 11 March
West Riding Post by Ben Morgan March
Specialist press
Lloyds List review by Neville Smith 18 August
NUMAST Telegraph review September 2006
The Mariner’s Mirror review by Prof Richard Gorski, University of Hull, November 2006
Navy News report of Mountbatten Maritime Prize 13 November
Ships Monthly review by Capt A W Kinghorn November 2006
Flying Fish: The Journal of the Ocean Cruising Club review by Anne Hammick 2006/2
Historical Novels Review, non-fiction section, review by Sarah Cuthbertson November 2006
Germanischer Lloyd Nonstop Magazine feature December 2006
Seaways: The Journal of the Nautical Institute review by Capt Lazlo J Kovats December 2006
Steamboat Bill review Capt A W Kinghorn Winter 2006
The Bookseller paperback preview by Sarah Broadhurst 26 January 2007
Oxford Today round-up Hilary Term 2007
Soundings: The Journal of the American Salvage Association review by Richard Fredricks Spring 2007
Mainmast Books catalogues December 2006 and February 2007
Online reviews/comment (a selection)
The First Post online magazine Critic’s Choice review by Jonathan Keates 22 June
Bookworm on the Net by Anne Weale 2 July
Booktrusted by James Smith August
Charkinblog comment by Richard Charkin 11 November
Marine Society Book of the Month June
Events
2006:
Hay-on-Wye Festival 1 June
Browsers Bookshop, Woodbridge, Suffolk 6 July
Plimsoll Road street party 15 July
Much Ado Books, Alfriston, Sussex literary dinner with Kathryn Hughes 14 September
Falmouth Literary Festival 7 October
Cheltenham Literary Festival 13 October
Guildford Book Festival with Judith Flanders 16 October
Dundee Assoc of Women Graduates dinner with Robert Lacey and Ann Cleeve 2 November
Mountbatten Maritime Prize award dinner 9 November
Friends of Leeds Art Club 11 December
2007:
N London reading group 5 February
St Hilda’s College Media Network The Athenaeum 2 March
Bath Literary Festival 9 March
Oxford Literary Festival 23 March
Scarborough Rotary Club 25 April
Orange Broadband Prize readers’ day, Leeds 29 April
‘Bookshop Barnie’ with Austin Williams The Economist Bookshop 10 July
St Hilda’s College Gaudy after-dinner speech 15 September
Talk for Plimsoll Road and friends 17 December
2008:
Talk for Friends of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 25 February
Doncaster Central Library 12 March
Headingley Library, Leeds 12 March
Halifax Central Library 13 March
Merseyside Maritime Museum 13 March
Chigwell Local History Society 14 March
Hull Central Library 1 April
Whitby Library 1 April
North Bridlington Library 2 April
Crofton Library, Wakefield 2 April
Knaresborough Library 3 April