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  • Jane Dismore in Social & Personal

    02 Dec 2014

    Jane Dismore has written a long feature for Ireland’s Social and Personal magazine on her new book Duchesses.

  • More accolades for David Weston

    01 Dec 2014

    David Weston’s Covering Shakespeare has been named Best Theatre Memoir of 2014 by Theatre In Wales.

  • MoneyWeek feature on The Great Charity Scandal

    01 Dec 2014

    There’s an interesting piece in this week’s MoneyWeek magazine on David Craig’s controversial new book The Great Charity Scandal.

    Why taxpayers should stop supporting charities

  • Dickie Arbiter is Daily Mail Christmas pick

    28 Nov 2014

    Dickie Arbiter’s sensational memoir On Duty with The Queen has been selected as one of the Daily Mail’s Christmas picks:

    Christmas books: Portraits of Palace life - by the insiders

  • New Kindle Single for Nicholas Best

    28 Nov 2014

    Nicholas Best’s dark new short story The Souvenir is the top title on the Kindle Singles homepage.

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    27 Nov 2014

    Portuguese rights in On Duty with the Queen by Dickie Arbiter and Lynne Barrett-Lee

    Greek rights in Manuel Arriaga’s Rebooting Democracy

    Italian rights in Joyce Cary’s The Horse’s Mouth and House of Children

    Sinalese rights in Cathy Glass’s Damaged

    Polish rights in John Higg’s I Have America Surrounded

    Swedish rights in Rachel Kelly’s Black Rainbow

    French rights in Daniel Tammet’s The Novel of Chess

    Finnish rights in Tim Tate’s Hitler’s Forgotten Children

    Japanese rights in Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin’s Big Fella

    Portuguese rights in Casey Watson’s The Girl Without a Voice

  • Lost Britain to O'Mara

    27 Nov 2014

    World rights in David Long’s Lost Britain, which tells the story of Britain’s lost landmarks, forgotten tongues and some truly bizarre cultural artefacts, have been bought by O’Mara Books.

  • Chloe Banks interview

    26 Nov 2014

    There’s a fascinating interview with Chloe Banks, author of The Art of Letting Go, here.

  • Lake Union acquires Marius Gabriel

    26 Nov 2014

    World rights in Marius Gabriel’s historical epic Weep No More have been bought by Lake Union Publishing.

  • Biography of First World War photographer sold

    25 Nov 2014

    World rights in Jeff Maynard’s biography of George Hubert Wilkins The Unseen Anzac: How an Enigmatic Polar Explorer Created Australia’s World War I Photographs have been bought by Scribe.