News
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
24 May 2015
Turkish rights in Anthony Allfrey’s Man of Arms: The Life and Legend of Sir Basil Zaharoff.
French rights in Cathy Glass’s Daddy’s Little Princess.
Turkish rights in Hitler’s Forgotten Children by Ingrid Von Oelhafen and Tim Tate.
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Daniel Tammet's new book which explores language sold
24 May 2015
World English rights in Daniel Tammet’s A World of Words , an engaging, eclectic, mind-expanding exploration of language, and what it can teach us about our minds and lives , have been bought jointly by Tracy Behar at Little Brown (US) and Rowena Webb at Hodder.
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Ithaca sold to Pegasus Books
23 May 2015
Patrick Dillon’s new historical novel Ithaca, a reworking of the Odyssey from Telemachus’s point-of-view, has been sold to Pegasus Books, in a deal for World English rights.
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Deborah McDonald in Country Life
23 May 2015
There’s an excellent review of Deborah McDonald and Jeremy Dronfield’s A Very Dangerous Woman in the current ‘historic’ edition of Country Life (which also features the newly discovered Shakespeare portrait).
‘A rollicking good read.’
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Huge interest in Tabloid Secrets
23 May 2015
Neville Thurlbeck’s Tabloid Secrets has been generating lots of media coverage, including the following:
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The Spectator reviews Queer Saint
22 May 2015
There’s a very interesting review of Adrian Clark and Jeremy Dronfield’s new book Queer Saint in The Spectator.
‘Peter Watson, the 1930s playboy who wafts in and out of other biographies, at last takes centre stage.’
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The BBC launches The Interceptor
22 May 2015
The BBC One dramatisation of The Interceptor by Cam Addicott with Kris Hollington is set to launch.
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The Observer reviews Vanessa Nicolson
21 May 2015
There was a terrific review of Vanessa Nicolson’s Have You Been Good? in last weekend’s Observer.
‘The grief is searing. In recording her own roles as both daughter and mother, Nicolson has penned a double helix to motherhood. It accounts for the many shades of experience that shouldn’t be, but so frequently are, endured in families, irrelevant of privilege.’
The book is currently #4 in the Evening Standard bestseller list.
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Piu Eatwell writes for The Bookseller
20 May 2015
Piu Eatwell has written a fascinating piece for The Bookseller on the theme of the doppelgänger in modern fiction.
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Two Thistle titles on Kindle 'most-read' list
19 May 2015
Theo Aronson’s Grandmama of Europe was one of the top 50 most-read Kindle titles in April, while Peter Padfield’s War Beneath The Sea was in the top 100. Both are published by the agency’s imprint Thistle Publishing.
