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THE TAGMAN PRESS - the small publisher with the big heart
NEWSFLASH -- THE TAGMAN PRESS has recently become fully independent again under the sole ownership of founder and managing director, Anthony Grey after a successful four-year merger with excellent digital printers CLE Print Ltd of St Ives, Cambridgehsire. Tagman headquarters have returned to Norwich, Norfolk where the imprint was founded in l998 but CLE Print Ltd are continuing to print their spectacular, high quality digital editions of all Tagman books at St Ives. We thank all customers and readers new and not-so-new for their support and interest to date......Watch this space for news of exciting fresh moves, especially in the direction of new e-books, new authors and new English language editions of Margit Sandemo's fascinating bestselling Legend of the Ice People series, coming soon !!
THE HOSTAGE HANDBOOK -- 2011 OFFICIAL PAPERBACK LAUNCH DATE - 29 JUNE. SPECIAL LAUNCH EVENTS ARE PLANNED THEN IN JERSEY IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS.
These unique, highly-charged diaries of the first international western hostage of the modern era, are published verbatim for the first time some forty years after Anthony Grey’s release from captivity in Beijing.
- Written secretly in shorthand, the diaries chronicle two years of solitary in China during the chaotic Cultural Revolution which led to three million deaths.
- They describe vividly the psychological battle for survival all hostages face – and illustrate how keeping a diary can help overcome hardships of many different kinds - and even lead to longer life.
- Interspersed with present-day reflections on how the author sees the ordeal today as a 'delayed action privilege' and how the experience greatly changed and eventually enhanced his life.
Publication: Paperback Official Launch Date: Wednesday, 29 June 2011
ISBN (Hardcover) : 978-1-903571-61-3
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-903571-62-0
Price: £20.00 (Hardback) - £12.00 (Paperback)
Format: Hardcover and Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 150 x 230mm
"Grey's experience - through fear, false hope, deep depression, suicidal thoughts and outrage at the failure of the British government to secure his release - is painfully similar to those of his later colleagues in Beirut and Baghdad ... Mercifully he came home to sunlight and love - and lived on to work for the BBC and write exciting novels."
Robert Fisk - The Independent
"This real-time journal of two years captivity gives a vivid picture of the afflictions and frustrations he faced and the often mindless and inhumane behaviour of his captors .. But also reveals Tony's stubborn capacity for inventiveness and imagination, which created an inner space for his spirit's survival in spite of it all."
Sir John Weston, Britain's former ambassador to the UN and NATO
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