News
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St Martin's buys account of WW2 battle in Italy
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.
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
23 Mar 2014
Polish rights in Carol Lee’s To Die For: A young woman’s battle with anorexia.
German rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Russian Origins of the First World War.
French rights in Daniel Tammet’s Fragments of Heaven and his fiction The Novel of Chess.
French rights in Casey Watson’s Little Prisoners: A tragic story of two siblings trapped in a world of suffering and abuse
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New Mark Felton World War Two book to Icon
23 Mar 2014
Icon have bought UK rights in Mark Felton’s X Men: Britain’s Last and Most Daring Raid of World War II. They publish his Zero Night: The Most Daring Great Escape of World War II in October.
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Monica Porter on the rise
21 Mar 2014
After her appearance on ITV’s This Morning, Monica Porter’s Raven: My year of dating dangerously… has shot up the Amazon bestseller rankings, entering the Top 10 of Memoirs.
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God's Traitors no 5 in London bestsellers
21 Mar 2014
Congratulations to Jessie Childs whose God’s Traitors is no 5 in the Evening Standard’s London best sellers and continues to be reviewed widely and well.
Yesterday’s Evening Standard called it “engaging history and a cracking read” whilst today’s Daily Mail calls it “a vivid, sometimes even humorous picture of devout Catholics keeping up appearances.”
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Bobby Friedman short-listed for British Political Book Awards
20 Mar 2014
Congratulations to Bobby Friedman whose Democracy Ltd was one of six books short-listed for the ‘Practical Politics Book of the Year’ at the British Political Awards last night.
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Army Rumour Service reviews Joff Sharpe
20 Mar 2014
Joff Sharpe’s new book Who Dares Wins in Business, recently released by Thistle Publishing, has been given a very creditable 4 mushroom heads by ARRSE, the Army Rumour Service.
‘Base your first book on personal knowledge and experience” is the advice often given to would-be authors. Joff Sharpe has taken this on board and the result is a lively, humorous and informative book in which he relates how he was able to apply lessons learnt while serving with the SAS to his subsequent business career.’
Joff is also being interviewed this week by BBC Surrey.
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More coverage for Monica Porter
19 Mar 2014
Monica Porter, the author of new memoir Raven: My year of dating dangerously… was interviewed last night on LBC, and features today in Stylist magazine.
She was also interviewed here (full video) on Australian breakfast TV show Sunrise.
