News
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Radio 4 Midweek interviews Vanessa Nicolson
25 May 2015
Vanessa Nicolson’s interview with BBC Radio 4 ‘Midweek’ is now available online here.
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The Guardian reviews A Very Dangerous Woman
25 May 2015
There’s a good review for A Very Dangerous Woman in The Guardian.
‘The lives, loves and lies of Russia’s most seductive spy come under scrutiny in this spiced-up biography.’
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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.
