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  • SOE Agent biography to St Martin's Press

    10 May 2012

    US rights in Clare Mulley’s life of the World War Two SOE agent Christine Granville, to be published by Macmillan in UK, have been sold to St Martin’s Press with Penguin the under-bidder.

  • SOE Agent biography to Harper Collins

    04 May 2012

    Harper Collins have bought UK & Commonwealth rights to Susan Ottaway’s joint biography of the World War Two SOE agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne for publication next spring.

  • Two agency best sellers

    01 May 2012

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose A Baby’s Cry is no 6 and Lynne Barrett-Lee the ghost on The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers which is no 11 in the paperback non-fiction list this week.

  • Two agency books are included in the Kindle daily deal mailing this week

    01 May 2012

    Two agency books are included in the Amazon Kindle daily deal mailing this week:

    The Boy No One Loved by Casey Watson

    I Miss Mummy by Cathy Glass

  • The Cost of Inequality shortlisted for Business Book of the Year

    01 May 2012

    Congratulations to Stewart Lansley whose The Cost of Inequality has been shortlisted for Business Book of the Year at the Spear’s Book Awards.

  • MJ Trow crime novel long-listed

    01 May 2012

    Congratulations to MJ Trow whose crime novel Maxwell’s Island, published by Soundings, has been long-listed for the unabridged Audible Sounds of Crime award.

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    27 Apr 2012

    Simon Berthon’s Warlords to Estonia.

    Nicholas Best’s book on the last days of World War Two Five Days That Shocked the World to China.

    Marina Chapman’s The Girl with No Name to Canada.

    Alicia Eaton’s Fix Your Life with NLP to India.

    Duncan Falconer’s thriller Mercenary to Holland.

    Kevin Ivison’s bomb disposal memoir Red One to Poland.

    Geoff Robert’s biography of the Soviet General Zhukov Stalin’s General to Finland and China.

  • Two more agency bestsellers in non-fiction paperback list

    24 Apr 2012

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass, who remains at no 3 with A Baby’s Cry , and Lynne Barrett-Lee the ghost on The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers which is no 7.

  • Four agency titles prominently displayed in a bookshop

    22 Apr 2012

    Four agency titles prominently displayed in a bookshop – Giant George ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee, Casey Watson’s Crying for Help, Cathy Glass’s A Baby’s Cry and The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee.

  • Hurting Too Much: Shocking Stories from the Frontline of Child Protection remains bestseller

    21 Apr 2012

    Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington’s Hurting Too Much: Shocking Stories from the Frontline of Child Protection is no 30 in paperback bestseller list.