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  • US & UK rights sold in Nazi Ghost Train: Evasion, Betrayal and Escape in Occupied Europe

    10 Mar 2025

    UK and Commonwealth rights in Nazi Ghost Train: Evasion, Betrayal and Escape in Occupied Europe by Greg Lewis have gone to Reach.

    Pegasus have bought North American rights.

  • Two serials for A Spy in the Family

    10 Mar 2025

    A Spy in the Family by David Gardner and Paul Henderson was serialised in the Daily Mail and TImes.

  • Recent Foreign Rights

    24 Feb 2025

    Turkish rights in Roger Crowley’s Spice: The sixteenth century contest that shaped the modern world.

    Polish rights in Sean McMeekin’s To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism.

    Spanish rights in Geoffrey Roberts’s Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books.

    Russian rights in Steve Tibble’s The Crusader Armies: 1099-1187 and Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land

  • Award for book on Thames Torso Murders

    24 Feb 2025

    Congratulations to Sarah Bax Horton who has been awarded the Ripperology Books And More (RBAM) award for Book of the Year 2024 for Arm of Eve: Investigating the Thames Torso Murders (The History Press, 2024)

  • Book on Whistleblowers to Icon

    24 Feb 2025

    Icon have bought UK & Commonwealth rights in Alex Grant’s The Canaries: Twenty British Whistleblowers Who Changed the World.

  • Author short-listed for Army book prize.

    20 Feb 2025

    Congratulations to agency author Frank Ledwidge who has been short-listed for the Templer Medal Book Prize, the annual military history book prize awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research to the author of the book published during that year that has made the most significant contribution to the history of the British Army.

  • Third week in top ten for Cathy Glass

    06 Feb 2025

    The reissue of Cathy Glass’s Mummy Told Me Not To Tell remains a third week in the top ten dropping to no 9.

  • Jeremy Thorpe case book sold to Reach

    05 Feb 2025

    UK rights in Paul Bessell’s memoir of his father Bessell X have been sold to Reach.

  • Two more Casey Watson to Harper Collins

    02 Feb 2025

    Harper Collins have bought two more books – Ghost Child and Breaking Point - from Casey Watson writing with Lynne Barrett-Lee.

  • Cathy Glass is no 6

    02 Feb 2025

    The reissue of Cathy Glass’s Mummy Told Me Not To Tell remains a second week in the top ten at no 6.