We had a fantastic launch party for Anna Reid on 25th April at The House of St. Barnabus. Lots of guests came including Benedict Allen, Marcel Theroux, Matthew Parris, John O'Farrell and Louise Doughty and the highlight of the evening must have been the traditional Tuvan throat singers! I also sold 40 books. I am currently fixing up a Monday night lecture at the RGS for Anna, for their Autumn series of talks. An article on Siberia by Anna Reid ran in the Financial Times on 30th March. Anna has been interviewed on the Brian Hayes Show (BBC Radio 5 Live), Gary Robertson Show (BBC Radio Scotland), Robert Elms Show (BBC London), the Afternoon Show (BBC Radio Jersey), John King Show (BBC Radio Shropshire) and John Turner Show (BBC Radio Bristol)Anna also gave a great talk at the Hermitage Rooms (Somerset House) on 13th May. Anna has done anumber of informal stock signings, including: Waterstones Piccadilly, Books Etc Piccadilly, Hatchards, Stanfords, Blackwells Charing Cross Rd, Borders Charing Cross Rd, Waterstones Notting Hill and Books Etc, Bayswater. 'Like Thubron, Ann Reid is a skilled verbal landscape artist, more economical with her imagery, but patiently investigative and enterprising too...The oral history she chronicles is deeply moving.'Alan Palmer, Literary Review '... quirky andnicely researched history.'Justin Marozzi, The Sunday Telegraph '...it is anenlightening study of indigenous peoples and post-Soviet geopolitics, full of unexpected insights; such as the details of the Khant language, 80per cent of which is verbs. Reid's style is wry...It is no small achievement to make the reader want to see this eerie landscape for themselves.'SB Kelly, Scotland on Sunday 'Reid's description of her travels is lively and full of little details that immediately convey the situation.'Eleanor Peers, Independent on Sunday 'Reid tells their fascinating history in beautiful detail in this part-history,part travel-book, centring her narrative on the Siberian shamanism that is struggling to re-emerge and find cures for the various ills of the modern world.'Malika Browne, Times '...a frank and lively account of Reid's travels through contemporary and historical Siberia in search of its indigenes...This is a fascinating book, pacy, thoughtful and erudite, and as good in its own way as Colin Thubron's In Siberia...'Sam Phipps, Spectator 'Reid travels with sensitivity through the grim past and drab present of Siberia's aboriginals, enlivening what is essentially more a history of the region than a journey through it with some strikingly painterly writing and an eye for pleasing eccentric detail...'James Owen, Telegraph '...a history of Siberia's different peoples and a personal recollection of travels among them...'The Scotsman '...a fascinating and compelling history of Siberia's native people, telling of their tortured past and their attempts to reassert themselves since the fall of Communism.'Wanderlust 'Thoroughly researched and often powerfully described, TheShaman's Coat is a sobering portrait of Siberia's struggling and skill scattered human presence.'Philip Marsden, TLS 'Part history, part witty travelogue, The Shaman's Coat captures the unexpected diversity of the peoples lumped together in the Russian psyche as slit-eyed savages...Anna Reid is a first rate