Erin Pizzey, bestselling novelist and founder of London's Battered Women's Refuge

Updating yesterday’s news about the “urgent” but mysterious withdrawal from publication of Andrew Marr‘s bestseller A History of Modern Britain, Sam Jones and Maev Kennedy at The Guardian file a report on what may be behind it all. They say publisher Pan Macmillian “is understood to have issued the immediate recall after the writer and women’s rights campaigner Erin Pizzey began legal action over incorrect allegations in the book that linked her to the Angry Brigade, a militant group that staged bomb attacks in the 1970s.” The Guardian was unable to get a comment from Pizzey or her attorneys, but reports nonetheless that “It is understood solicitors for the publishers have issued an apology to Pizzey.”

Well, it’s understood now, anyway: Late in the day, Katie Coyne reported a Bookseller story that Pan Macmillan confirmed that it had apolgoized to Pizzey and would be issuing a reprint “with the passage complained about removed.” But it seemed that wasn’t enough for Pizzey — the publisher’s statement noted that “As this is an ongoing legal matter, Pan Macmillan will not be able to comment any further.”