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News

  • History of Ku Klux Klan to History Press

    23 Dec 2021

    UK & Commonwealth rights in Kristofer Allerfeldt’s A New History of the Ku Klux Klan have been bought by The History Press

  • History of Undersea exploration to Harper Collins

    23 Dec 2021

    Harper Collins have bought world rights in Jeff Maynard’s Frontiers Below: The 2000 Year Quest to Go Deeper Underwater and How It Impacts Our Future

  • Praise for Stalin's War

    23 Dec 2021

    Stalin’s War has been included in The Federalist’s “Notable Books of 2021” roundup.

    “Sean McMeekin’s revisionist Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II isn’t just one of the most compelling histories written about the war this year, it’s one of the best ever. I doubt anyone who reads it will think about the Second World War in the same way.”—David Harsanyi, The Federalist

  • Two authors short-listed for Biography Prize

    23 Dec 2021

    Congratulations to agency authors Amy Ripley and Ben Wright who have been short-listed for the Tony Lothian Biographers Club Prize.

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    20 Nov 2021

    Korean rights have been sold in David Day’s Antarctica: A Biography

    Japanese rights have been sold in Frank Ledwidge’s Aerial Warfare: The Battle for the Skies.

    Czech rights sold in David Stafford’s Spies Beneath Berlin

    Russian rights have been sold in Lisa Stone’s psychological thriller The Cottage

    French rights in Daniel Tammet’s Nine Minds.

  • Agency author dies aged 43

    20 Nov 2021

    The agency is sad to announce the tragic death of Gurpareet Bains aged 43 and thoughts are with his friends and family.

    https://www.geo.tv/latest/381958-celebrity-chef-gurpareet-bains-passes-away-following-a-heart-attack

  • Typhoon serialised in Daily Mail

    20 Nov 2021

    Typhoon , the memoirs of pilot Mike Sutton written with Clifford Thurlow is serialised in the Daily Mail today https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10223093/RAF-pilot-destroyed-ISIS-troops-confesses-desensitising-nature-war.html

  • Tim Tate on Society of Authors committee

    10 Nov 2021

    Congratulations to agency author Tim Tate who has been elected to the committee of the Society of Authors.

  • Cathy Glass remains in top ten

    10 Nov 2021

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass who remains in the top ten for An Innocent Baby.

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    03 Nov 2021

    Arabic offer for Hacking the Code of Life by Nessa Carey

    French rights in Daniel Tammet’s How to be ‘normal’: Notes on the eccentricities of modern life.

    Chinese rights in Chris Woodford’s Breathless: How air pollution became the world’s biggest killer