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  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    22 Feb 2022

    Korean rights in Roger Crowley’s Empires of the Wind: The contest for the spice trade that shaped the modern world

    Italian and Portuguese rights in Andrew Lownie’s Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

  • Ripper book serialised

    19 Feb 2022

    I’m The Yorkshire Ripper by Robin Perrie is serialised in the Sun today

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17698354/yorkshire-ripper-peter-stutcliffe-ronnie-kray/

  • The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys optioned

    14 Feb 2022

    The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys by Marina Chapman and Lynne Barrett-Lee has been optioned by Maijuin Productions .

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    10 Feb 2022

    Portuguese rights in Roger Crowley’s Empires of the Wind: The contest for the spice trade that shaped the modern world.

    Romanian and Greek rights in Geoff Roberts’ Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books.

    Mexican rights in Lisa Stone’s novel The Cottage.

  • Female aviator's memoir to Reach

    04 Feb 2022

    Reach have bought World English rights in Bird, the memoirs of Tracey Curtis-Taylor with Doug Wight and her three epic flights in a 1942 Boeing Stearman biplane.

  • Dolphin Square history optioned

    02 Feb 2022

    A history of the London apartment block Dolphin Square by Simon Danczuk and Dan Smith has been optioned by Honey Bee Media.

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    23 Jan 2022

    Hungarian rights in Mary Hollingsworth’s The Medici.

    Romanian rights in Andrew Lownie’s Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess

    Russian rights in Andrew Lownie’s Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

    Chinese rights in Steven Runciman’s Lost Capital of Byzantium

  • Ros Russell wins The Moore Prize for best book with human rights theme.

    11 Jan 2022

    The End of Where We Begin: A Refugee Story by Rosalind Russell has been chosen as the best book with a human rights theme, published between 1 July, 2020 and 30 June 2021.

  • Frank Sinatra book to Ad Lib

    07 Jan 2022

    Ad Lib have bought world rights in Sinatra’s Hits by Douglas Thompson and Mike Rothmiller.

  • Crime heist book to Reach

    06 Jan 2022

    Reach have bought World English rights in crime correspondent Jeff Edwards’ Charlie Knight’s Chainsaw Gang for publication in July.