News
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Cathy Glass remains at no 1 for second week
19 Sep 2022
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose memoir A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever remains for a second week at no 1 in the paperback non fiction list .
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Brian Groom two-book deal with Harper North
19 Sep 2022
HarperNorth have bought World English rights to the next two books by Brian Groom, author of the bestselling Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day.
The first book, Mancunians, due to be published in May 2024, will tell the story of the people who built the “shock city” of the Industrial Revolution and the impact they have had on the world. Like Northerners, it will combine historical narrative with social and cultural themes and colourful portraits of personalities, famous or not, involved in the story. It will examine Manchester’s past and present and the role it can play in Britain’s future.
A second book, with the working title These Isles, is due to be published in May 2025. It will tell the story of the relationship between the peoples of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and other parts of the British and Irish isles.
Both books will draw on the Stretford-born author’s more than four decades as a journalist specialising largely in the archipelago’s regions and nations. Northerners, which has been a Times number three bestseller in hardback non-fiction, is also published by HarperNorth.
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Recent Foreign Rights sales
12 Sep 2022
German rights in Angela Findlay’s In My Grandfather’s Shadow: A lost story of war, trauma and the legacy of silence
Korean rights in Paul Jones’ Why Is This A Question? : And Everything Else You Wanted To Know About Language
Spanish rights in Chris Woodford’s Breathless: How air pollution became the world’s biggest killer
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French murder mystery bought by Icon
11 Sep 2022
World English rights in The Drummond Affair: : Murder and Mystery in Provence by Stephanie Matthews with Dan Smith have been bought by Icon.
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Undercover cop memoir to Icon
11 Sep 2022
World English rights in Burnout: Exposing the bad guys as a female undercover cop by Officer K and Doug Wight have been bought by Icon.
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Latest Cathy Glass straight in at no 1
11 Sep 2022
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose memoir A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever has gone straight to no 1 in the paperback non fiction list on only a half week of sales.
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US rights in book on Salon Kitty sold to Pegasus
22 Aug 2022
North American rights in Kitty’s Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Urs Brunner, Julia Schrammel and Nigel Jones have been sold to Pegasus.
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Dali book optioned for film
22 Aug 2022
Clifford Thurlow’s Sex, Surrealism, Dali and Me : The Memoirs of Carlos Lozano has been optioned by Octavia Peissel at OP Productions.
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D Day deception book to Icon
22 Aug 2022
Icon have bought UK & Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in Taylor Downing’s The Army that Never Was: Gen Patton & the Deception that Helped Bring Victory on D-Day
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New Lisa Stone to Harper Collins
26 Jul 2022
Harper Collins have bought world rights in Lisa Stone’s latest psychological thriller The Gathering.
