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Warhorses of Letters depicts the fictional love letters between Napoleon and Wellington's horses, Marengo and Copenhagen, over the battlefields of war-torn Europe. The first ever gay, equine, epistolary romance, it features the full scripts from the hit BBC Radio 4 series plus a wealth of additional materials.

Museum without Walls is born of Jonathan Meades's obsessive preoccupation with places: their composition, how and why they were made, their power over us and the ideas they foment.

The Elegant Art of Falling Apart is a survival memoir by best-selling author, style writer and Chemo Chic blogger, Jessica Jones. It charts her victory over breast cancer and her battle to escape her addictions: to booze, to drugs, to damaging relationships and to toxic beauty products.

In the wake of the financial crisis, three-quarters of the world's CEOs say more emphasis should be placed on measuring the value of non-financial assets such as intellectual capital and customer relationships to drive long-term performance, according to research from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

Foyles' bookshops report strong Christmas trading, with sales across the group for the period 1st> to 24th December 2011 up 20% on the same period in the previous year. The figure includes two new braches opened in 2011 at Westfield Stratford City and Bristol Cabot Circus.

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By this stage in December we’re normally beginning to slow down at Colman Getty, or at least tackle the pile of filing and database clear-outs we’ve been promising to look at all year. 2011, however, seems to be the exception and we’re still moving at high speed towards Christmas.

Over the last ten days a blue and white campervan, complete with inflatable wings, has been travelling up and down the country to celebrate the publication of Frank Cottrell Boyce’s new novel, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again, published almost fifty years after Ian Fleming’s original.

This week I attended the Annual Conference hosted by business-education charity, Career Academies UK entitled ‘Skills we Need for the Future’ which set out to address the apparent national skills gap and what could be done to close it. Over 250 employers and educationalists came together to talk openly.

Tuesday 7 June saw the opening of this year's tenth festival, and I was lucky enough to be on site to experience the many weird and wonderful scientific delights on offer to the public.

I never thought I’d see the day where my experience as a teenage paintball marshall would be combined with my role as a literary PR. That day was yesterday, when an ‘education activist’ let off a smoke bomb in a Foyles event.

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