17 Jun 2013
Stewart Lansley’s fascinating and timely C-SPAN interview on The Cost Of Inequality can now be viewed online:
15 Jun 2013
Pia Heikkila’s sexy chick-lit novel Operation Lipstick has just been released in Finland, after reaching the bestseller lists in India. The book is generating huge media interest, including the following:
15 Jun 2013
Frank Ledwidge has given a fascinating interview to The Voice Of Russia.
15 Jun 2013
Rights in Jonathan Conlin’s Tales of Two Cities: Paris and London, 1750-1914 were sold in Taiwan and Brazil.
Pegasus bought Turkish rights in Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers.
14 Jun 2013
Frank Ledwidge’s damning account of the war in Afghanistan is continuing to generate huge interest:
14 Jun 2013
Angus Konstam has been contracted to write the latest Haynes manual – a detailed study of the German battleship KMS Bismarck – the warship that sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood in 1941, and which then became the quarry in one of the most famous naval pursuits of the Second World War. The book is due to be published in the summer of 2014.
13 Jun 2013
There have been a succession of foreign rights deals for Marina Chapman’s memoir of being brought up by monkeys in the Columbian jungle, The Girl With No Name, including Spain, Iceland, Russia and Poland.
13 Jun 2013
Pegasus have bought US rights in Desmond Seward’s revised classic life of Richard III.
13 Jun 2013
David Day’s Antarctica is one of ten books selected as Amazon’s history books of the month.
13 Jun 2013
Harper Collins have signed a three-book deal with new writer Julie Shaw - working with ghost Lynne Barrett-Lee - to tell the story of her working-class Northern family , The Hudsons, over the last hundred years.
The first book The Warrior is set on the notorious Canterbury Estate in Bradford during the 1970s and will be followed by The Boxer, covering the 1940’s and 1950’s, and The Tucker Girls set in the 1950’s and early 1960’s,