News
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Criminal London nominated for award
04 Nov 2013
Criminal London: A sightseer’s guide to the capital of crime by Kris and Nina Hollington has been nominated for the British Travel Press Awards.
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Two US sales to Skyhorse
03 Nov 2013
Skyhorse Publishing have bought US rights in Adrian Gilbert’s Voices of the Legion: The French Foreign Legion in its Own Words and David Long’s Bizarre London.
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
03 Nov 2013
French rights in Coralie Colmez and Leila Schneps’s Maths on Trial.
Brazilian rights in Peter Padfield’s Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of World War Two - A Secret History.
Portuguese rights in Adrian Weale’s history of the SS.
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Square Peg buys The Book of 365
02 Nov 2013
Square Peg have bought world rights in Hugh Brazier and Jan McCann’s The Book of 365 a trivia book which consists of 365 entries, using every number from 1 to 365 as a starting point for a brief exploration of the world around us, taking in a broad sweep of science, history, art, literature, medicine, and popular culture.
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Icon buy biography of 19th century courtesan
02 Nov 2013
Icon have bought UK rights in Catherine Hewitt’s Valtesse de la Bigne: A Courtesan’s Conquest of Paris , which tells the incredible tale of the nineteenth century courtesan who clawed her way up from humble, impoverished origins to become one of the most sought-after and glamorous women in Paris.
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UK deal for Junk: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
02 Nov 2013
Icon, who published Nessa Carey’s first book The Epigenetics Revolution, have bought UK rights in Junk: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome which explores the exciting new developments in our understanding of human DNA.
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Partying with the ghost-writers
01 Nov 2013
The agency’s traditional Halloween party for its ghostwriters was picked up by the Evening Standard:
“To an olde worlde townhouse in Westminster for a Halloween party with a twist. Literary agent Andrew Lownie asked the shadowy world of ghost-writers to convene for drinks at his offices in Great Smith Street. Among the attendees were Andrew Crofts and Lynne Barrett-Lee. “It was a strange party,” said one guest. “No-one knew who was working with whom, as ghostwriters have to be discreet about their clients.” Once collected, it was observed they were a young, attractive bunch inclined to wear black.”
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M J Trow reviewed
01 Nov 2013
There’s a good review for M J Trow’s latest, Crimson Rose, on the Historical Novel Society site.
“Lovers of early English theater (at least, those unencumbered by excessive scholarship) will enjoy this witty, often bawdy, sketch of Elizabethan London.”
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Thistle in exciting new promotion
31 Oct 2013
M J Trow’s The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade, recently published by Thistle, is part of an exciting new ‘Countdown’ promotion on Amazon, whereby customers only have a short time to purchase at the discount price - currently 99p - before the price gradually rises.
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Andrew Lownie at Kingston University
31 Oct 2013
Andrew Lownie will be speaking to MA Publishing students at Kingston University on Monday.
