31 Jan 2015
Lee Trimble’s Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot’s Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front has had a great review from Booklist. The book has already attracted several film offers.
“A riveting, tense, and ultimately satisfying account of his father’s heroic effort.”
31 Jan 2015
“A highly entertaining book that subjects popular stereotypes to a reality-based fact-check… A welcome corrective to the charming postcard tableaux on display… ever since Peter Mayle’s 1989 memoir ‘A Year in Provence’… a book that can make you laugh out loud.”
30 Jan 2015
Blair Inc: The Man Behind the Mask by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan, which looks at Blair’s commercial activities since leaving government, has been bought by John Blake for publication in March.
30 Jan 2015
Short Books have bought UK & Commonwealth rights in A Year of Living Calmly, in which Rachel Kelly answers the question that she has been asked so often since the publication of her memoir, Black Rainbow: How words healed me - my journey through depression: ‘So what have you learnt about staying well after your breakdowns?’
28 Jan 2015
A trip to WH Smith at the weekend witnessed a score of titles from agency clients Casey Watson, Cathy Glass and Lynne Barrett-Lee on display.
24 Jan 2015
World English rights in Desmond Seward’s history of the Sitwell family and their house Renishaw have been bought by Elliott & Thompson.
24 Jan 2015
Lithuanian rights in Hugh Brazier and Jan McCann’s The Book of 365 just published by Random House..
Japanese rights in Nessa Carey’s Junk: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome shortly to be published by Icon and Columbia Press.
Korean rights in Roger Crowley’s Constantinople: The Last Great Siege. published by Faber and Random House.
Chinese rights in Roger Crowley’s Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire shortly to be published by Faber and Random House.
Portuguese rights in Randall Hansen’s Disobeying Hitler published by Faber and OUP.
Hebrew rights in Roger Howard’s Operation Damocles published by Thistle and Pegasus.
24 Jan 2015
Penguin have bought world rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
24 Jan 2015
Norton have bought US rights in Piu Eatwell’s The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
24 Jan 2015
Duckworth have bought World English rights in Paddy Hayes’ life of Daphne Parks described by the Guardian as Britain’s ‘Queen of Spies’ and widely acknowledged as being one of Britain’s leading Cold War Intelligence officers.