A Leap of Faith: Memoir of an Unexpected Life: Memoirs of an unexpected life - Tapa dura

The serial for this has now finished, with an excellent interview in the DAILY TELEGRAPH magazine and the extracts running daily in the paper.Second serial went to THE SCOTSMAN. A large interview with several pages of glossy pics also ran in the April issue of HARPERS AND QUEEN. Queen Noor visited the UK on 6-8 April and our publicity plans included an appearance in conversation with Ion Trewin at the Cheltenham Festival on Sunday 6 April. Nearly 1,000 people turned out for this event, Hammicks sold all their pre-signed stock. We followed this with an interview with the Press Assocation which will be syndicated to all regional press and broadcast media interviews which will include Woman's Hour (BBC Radio 4) to air on Wednesday 9 April, BBC Breakfast (BBC1) to air on Tuesday 8 April - this has also been syndicated to BBC News Online, BBC World, BBC News 24 - and Simon Mayo (BBC Radio 5) to air on Tuesday 8 April. We also arranged an informal stock signing at Hatchards Piccadilly on Tuesday 8 April and Her Majesty signed 350 books in one hour for them. We also have a limited number of booksplates for Methvens in Windsor, Waterstones in Harrods, Hatchards, Telesales and anyother key outlets. Following Her Majesty's visit, diary stories have also run in EVENING STANDARD, DAILY MAIL, DAILY EXPRESS, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES and THE SUN. And after all our hard work and negotiation, Her Majesty Queen Noor's trip to the Hay Festival on Bank Holiday Monday was a success. All the helicopter, car and securityarrangements went very smoothly, and the event itself, an "In conversation with" with Geordie Greig, Editor of Tatler, was a sell out with over 1,100 tickets sold and was received very well. Most importantly I think we sold a goodnumber of copies - Pemberton Books can't yet let me have exact numbers, but I'm hoping to have final figures shortly. Queen Noor also kindly did an interview for us on the Don McClean Show on BBC Radio 2's Good Morning Sunday Programme in London. The show is transmitted every Sunday morning between 0700 - 0900 hrs and has 2.5 million listeners. Her Majesty has now returned to the US and we have now received a wonderful review in THE GUARDIAN: "An engaging and inspiring book... Leap of Faith is the story of her remarkable journey into Hussein's heart, and their 21 years of marriage, ending with the King's death in 1999... As well as being an intimate portrait of marriage, Leap of Faith reflects a deep commitment to the people, culture, and natural beauty of Jordan... It also sheds a great deal of light on inter-Arab relations and on the diplomacy surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict."THE GUARDIAN