Turing biography to The History Press

The History Press has acquired a biography of pioneering computer scientist and Bletchley Park codebreaker Professor Alan Turing, written by his nephew Sir Dermot Turing. The publisher bought world rights to Prof: Alan Turing Decoded, which it described as a “modern biography” told from “a unique family perspective”. The book aims to "disentangle the real man from the fictionalised portrayals" and will examine the influences on his life and creativity.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Lerner Acquires Gecko Press

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‘Love is Greater Than AIDS’ (R&L, Apr.), a memoir by the late Rev. A. Stephen Pieters, describes his watershed interview with Tammy Faye Bakker in 1985 as well as decades of AIDS activism. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Digiday’s Oral History of Ad Tech podcast, episode 2, with Ari Paparo

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Telling tales: Zimbabwe’s Weaver Press celebrates 25 years of championing truth-telling fiction

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