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Recent Foreign Rights sales

26 Apr 2022

Romanian rights in Alan Baker’s The Enigmas of History: Myths, Mysteries and Madness from Around the World

German rights in Jeremy Dronfield’s Fritz and Kurt

Hungarian rights in Adrian Weale’s The SS: A New History

Stalin's Englishman nominated for three top history lists

26 Apr 2022

Andrew Lownie’s Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess has recently be selected for the following lists:

26 Best History Books of All Time

45 Best History Books of All Time

Stalin's Englishman nominated for three top history lists

26 Apr 2022

Andrew Lownie’s Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess has recently be selected for the following lists:

26 Best History Books of All Time

45 Best History Books of All Time

Stalin's WAr short-listed

26 Apr 2022

Sean McMeekin’s Stalin’s War is one of seven titles shortlisted for this year’s Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History.

Desmond Seward dies

09 Apr 2022

The agency is sad to report the unexpected death of Desmond Seward, aged eighty-six, an agency client since January 2001 and a full-time historian and biography for over fifty years. A writer across a wide range of subjects, who was both scholarly and readable, he had just delivered The Viking Olav Haraldsson: Norway’s once and future King

International Holocaust bestseller sold in new children's edition

07 Apr 2022

Jeremy Dronfield’s extraordinary true story of The Boy Who Followed his Father Into Auschwitz, the number one Sunday Times and international bestseller, published in 2019 to huge acclaim and translated into 19 languages has been sold in a children’s version to Penguin in the UK and Harper Collins in the USA.

Recent Foreign Rights sales

07 Apr 2022

Chinese rights in Roger Crowley’s Empires of the Wind: The contest for the spice trade that shaped the modern world.

Italian rights in Christian Jennings’ Syndrome K: How Italy resisted the Final Solution

German rights in Sean McMeekin’s Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II

Hungarian rights in Danny Orbach’s Fugitives : A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War

Cathy Glass remains in top ten

07 Apr 2022

For a third week running Cathy Glass’s fostering memoir Neglected is at no 8 , it’s sixth week in the top ten.

Interviews with Tim Tate and Lynne Barrett-Lee

30 Mar 2022

Interviews with two of the agency’s authors

Recent Foreign Rights sales

18 Mar 2022

Korean rights in Jonathan Conlin’s Mr Five Per Cent: : the many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world’s richest man.

Romanian rights in Roger Crowley’s Constantinople: The Last Great Siege

Hebrew rights in Danny Orbach’s Fugitives : A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War