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  • Another Crusades book to Yale.

    18 Sep 2024

    Yale University Press have bought world rights in The Knights of Malta: Holy Warriors of the Crusades by Steve Tibble and Rory MacLellan.

  • Helpless no 1 for third week running.

    18 Sep 2024

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose memoir Helpless is spending its third week at no 1 in the paperback non-fiction bestseller list.

  • Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans long-listed

    18 Sep 2024

    Congratulations to Daniel Cowling whose Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans: : The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 has been long-listed for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown by the Historical Writers Association.

  • Recent translation sales

    04 Sep 2024

    Spanish rights in Kristofer Allerfeldt’s The Klan: An American History

    Spanish rights in Roger Crowley’s City of Fortune

    Taiwanese rights in Lawrence James’s Empires in the Sun.

  • Second agency top ten this week

    04 Sep 2024

    Congratulations to Julie Shaw author of Coleen Nolan’s A Hand to Hold: The new compassionate and supportive memoir on coming to terms with loss from Loose Women’s Coleen Nolan which is at no 7 in the Sunday Times non-fictiin list.

  • Book on Fifth Crusade sold to Yale

    03 Sep 2024

    Yale have bought World English rights in Tom Smith’s The Egyptian Crusade: Holy War on the Nile the story of the Fifth Crusade.

  • Cathy Glass straight to no 1 again

    03 Sep 2024

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose latest memoir Helpless has gone straight to no 1 in its first week of publication.

  • Recent translation sales

    03 Sep 2024

    Dutch rights in Ross King’s The Shortest History of Ancient Rome

    Russian rights in Danny Orbach’s The Plots Against Hitler

    Bulgarian rights in Tim Tate’s Hitler’s British Traitors: The Secret History of Spies, Saboteurs and Fifth Columnists

  • Recent translation sales

    22 Aug 2024

    Polish rights in Nessa Carey’s Junk: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome.

    Russian rights in Roger Crowley’s Empires of the Sea.

    Russian rights in Desmond Seward’s The Greatest Viking: The Life of Olav Haraldsson

  • US deal for Nine Minds

    22 Aug 2024

    The Experiment have bought US rights in Daniel Tamet’s Nine Minds.