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For grown-ups, too

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Ian Graham – whose book ‘Avoid being Sir Isaac Newton!’ Book House) was shortlisted for last year’s ALCS children’s non-fiction prize – has been writing for adults, too. He tells us: ‘My latest book for grown-ups is out – Scarlet Women – 430 pages, 100,000 hand-picked words about the scandalous lives of courtesans, concubines and royal mistresses from the ancient world to the present.

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‘Scarlet Women: The Scandalous Lives of  Courtesans, Concubines and Royal Mistresses’ (just out – Thistle Publishing) follows Ian’s ‘The Ultimate Book of Impostors: Over 100 True Stories of the Greatest Phonies and Frauds’ (2013, also Thistle).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scarlet-Women-scandalous-courtesans-concubines/dp/1910670316/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=   (This is the British edition. The US edition will be out at the beginning of 2016 and various foreign editions will follow.)

Shortlist for the Royal Society prize

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Nibweb member Nicola Davies has tweeted:

‘Absolutely delighted that my book is shortlisted for the @royalsociety Young People’s Book Prize 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2015/may/14/royal-society-young-peoples-book-prize-shortlist  

Her book is ‘Tiny: The Invisible World of Microbes’ (Walker Books).

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Other contenders include Professor Robert Winston, and 13-year-old Jake McGowan-Lowe, who has produced a book about animal bones.