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New Tom Devine book to Penguin
06 Dec 2014
Penguin have bought world rights in Professor Tom Devine’s Independence or Union: The Scottish Question 1950-2015 which attempts to provide an answer to a fascinating historical puzzle. In the 1950s unionism in Scotland had reached an electoral peak and the SNP was an irrelevant political sect rather than an effective party.Yet, within a generation or so,in the Referendum of 2014, 45 per cent of Scots voted for independence and despite the clear victory for Unionists the debate rages on.What happened in 2014 will mean a radical revision of the Union with consequences for the governance of the entire UK.
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More Foreign Rights sales
06 Dec 2014
Turkish rights in The Girl with no Name by Marina Chapman and Lynne Barrett-Lee
Italian rights in Mei Trow’s Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring
Spanish rights in Christian Wolmar’s To the Edge of the World
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BETT Awards nomination for Helen Fry
05 Dec 2014
London Grid for Learning recently launched Helen Fry’s book The M Room: Secret Listeners who Bugged the Nazis as a national schools curriculum learning resource. It has just been shortlisted for the BETT Awards 2015.
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Mark Felton feature in New Zealand Herald
05 Dec 2014
There’s a feature on Mark Felton’s new book Zero Night in the New Zealand Herald.
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Rebecca Schiller on Sky News
03 Dec 2014
Birth doula Rebecca Schiller took part in a debate on Sky News on the new NICE NHS guidelines on pregnancy care. The video is online here.
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New two-book deal with Harper Collins for Cathy Glass
03 Dec 2014
Harper Collins have bought world rights in two more fostering memoirs from bestselling author Cathy Glass. The first, Saving Danny, about a young Autistic boy, will be published in February and the secondA Very Bad Day about a young boy coping with his father’s suicide, will be published in September.
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Civilisation. A Greek and Roman Journey sold to Yale
03 Dec 2014
World rights in Professor Tony Spawforth’s Civilisation. A Greek and Roman Journey have been bought by Yale University Press. The book tells the story of how the Greeks developed a long-lasting civilisation which the Romans in due course took over by force, developed further and eventually used legionaries to defend against outside threats, before finally transmitting a classical legacy to the Middle Ages and so to us
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Casey Watson is no 17
03 Dec 2014
Casey Watson’s Nowhere to Go remains in the paperback non-fiction chart - this week at no 17.
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Coming Up Trumps is Guardian 2014 selection
03 Dec 2014
Baroness Trumpington’s lively memoir Coming Up Trumps, ghosted by agency author Deborah Crewe, has been selected by the Guardian as one of The best politics books of 2014.
