10 Sep 2012
After a spirited auction, in which Hodder was the under-bidder, Ian Millthorpe’s memoir of bringing up eight children after the death of his wife Angie, ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee, has been bought by Simon & Schuster.
10 Sep 2012
Palgrave have bought Christian Jennings’ Bosnia’s million bones - solving the world’s greatest forensic science puzzle for publication next year.
10 Sep 2012
Basic have just bought world rights in a popular and revisionist single volume account of The Russian Revolution by acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin.
04 Sep 2012
Congratulations to Emma Donnan, the ghost on Living Life the Essex Way, which is Number 7 this week and celebrates 16 weeks in the best seller list!
04 Sep 2012
Living Life the Essex Way, ghosted by Emma Donnan, remains in the hardback non-fiction list at no 4 with Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers at no 8.
01 Sep 2012
Chinese rights in Clare Mulley’s The Spy Who Loved to Beijing World Publishing
Polish rights in Ben McFarlane’s Holiday SOS to Pascal
Polish rights in Sam Pivnik’s Survivor to Proszynski
Simplified Chinese rights to Social Sciences Press for three Roger Crowley titles:
1453, Empires of the Sea, City of Fortune
01 Sep 2012
Congratulations to Daniel Tammet whose new book Thinking in Numbers, Radio 4’s Book of the Week, is no. 8 in the Sunday Times hardback bestseller lists this week.
22 Aug 2012
The Class of 41 a group biography of the last West Point peacetime graduating class by Anne Kazel-Wilcox and PJ Wilcox has been sold to University Press of New England.
18 Aug 2012
Living Life the Essex Way remains at no 3 in the hardback non-fiction lists.