31 Mar 2014
Monica Porter’s sensational memoir Raven: My year of dating dangerously… continues to stir debate. This weekend it featured as a reference point in another Mail story about the sex lives of older people.
‘As 60-year-old Monica Porter’s memoir about having sex with younger men, published in The Mail on Sunday this month, continues to cause a sensation, Miss Sayle hopes to cash in on the desire of middle-aged people ‘to explore their fantasies’.’
31 Mar 2014
Andrew Lownie has consolidated his position as the world’s leading literary agent, with a remarkable 44 deals in the last six months, according to Publishers Marketplace.
31 Mar 2014
There’s a great review for Jessie Childs’ God’s Traitors in this week’s New Statesman.
‘….Detailed and absorbing…compelling…God’s Traitors is both a dramatic and thrilling story of fear, faith, courage and deceit and an important exposé of the terror of life as a Catholic in Elizabethan England.’ Anna Whitelock, New Statesman
28 Mar 2014
Pegasus have bought US rights in Elizabeth Norton’s The Seymour Scandal, the little-known story of how Queen Elizabeth 1, aged fourteen, fell in love with a man who was attractive, charming and exciting but who was also three times her age, her stepmother’s husband and the most dangerous man in England.
28 Mar 2014
Duckworth have bought World English rights in Eleanor Fitzsimon’s Wilde’s Women , a ground-breaking new book which explores the many rewarding relationships that the writer Oscar Wilde enjoyed with a series of fascinating and accomplished women throughout his life.
25 Mar 2014
Monica Porter, author of sensational new memoir Raven: My year of dating dangerously…, is interviewed this week in Forbes magazine.
25 Mar 2014
St Martin’s Press have bought world rights in Christian Jennings’ If I Live to See the Dawn : At War on the Gothic Line 1944 - ‘45 an account of a crucial battle in Italy in 1944 told through the exploits of twelve men of eight different nationalities.