News
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Blitz Kids serialised in the Daily Mail today.
10 Mar 2012
Congratulations to Sean Longden whose book on children during the Second World War Blitz Kids is serialised in the Daily Mail today.
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Andrew Lownie is the top deal maker in UK non-fiction according to Publishers Marketplace
10 Mar 2012
According to Publishers Marketplace Andrew Lownie is the top deal maker in UK non-fiction
He has had 16 announced deals in this category in the last 12 months | 3 in the last 6 months | 71 overall | 10 six-figure+ deals
The agent behind him has had 8 deals in this category in the last 12 months.
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Hurting Too Much is no 6
08 Mar 2012
Congratulations to Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington whose Hurting Too Much:Shocking Stories from the Frontline of Child Protection is#6 The Sunday Times, #6 The Guardian, #6 Live Magazine and #7 The Bookseller PB Non-Fiction chart this week.
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Crying for Help remains in top twenty
06 Mar 2012
Congratulations to Casey Watson whose Crying for Help is no 18 this week.
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US rights in Operation Damocles sold
05 Mar 2012
Pegasus have bought US rights in Roger Howard’s Operation Damocles, the forgotten story of the former Nazi scientists who were recruited by Egypt in the 1950s and ‘60s to develop a long-range missile capable of striking Israel. They publish later this year.
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Two Agency Titles in Top Twenty
28 Feb 2012
Congratulations to Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington whose Hurting Too Much:Shocking Stories from the Frontline of Child Protection is no 5 and Casey Watson whose Crying for Help: The Shocking True Story of a Damaged Girl with a Dark Past is no 14 in the non-fiction paperback list this week.
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The power of radio to affect chart position
27 Feb 2012
In an interesting shift, an Irish radio interview has led to an ebook edition of a book spiking on Amazon’s bestseller lists. Constable author, Tim Newark, whose book, The Fighting Irish was the subject of a Pat Kenny interview Wednesday 22nd February. By the end of the day the book had climbed to the top of the Kindle Irish History bestseller charts and had spiked in the paperback Irish History Bestseller charts. It remains at #5 on the Kindle chart and #88 on the print bestseller charts a day later. It’s an example of how the immediacy of availability can move units and drive sales for publishers.
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James Klugmann biography
27 Feb 2012
The Communist Party historian James Klugmann was born 100 years ago today. Geoff Andrews, author of a forthcoming biography about to be submitted to publishers, assess his life in today’s Open Democracy showing him to have been a much more influential figure in shaping twentieth century history then hitherto realised:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/geoff-andrews/james-klugmann-complex-communist
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New Ian Knight book to Sidgwick
22 Feb 2012
Following the critical and commercial success of Ian Knight’s study of the Anglo-Zulu War battles of iSandlwana and Rorke’s Drift, Zulu Rising, Ingrid Connell at Sidgwick has now bought UK & Commonwealth rights to Warriors in Scarlet.
The new book will offer an epic study of the Victorian soldier at war at the height of Britain’s colonial empire using the same mix of analytical research, gripping story-telling and vivid eye-witness experience which brought Zulu Rising such acclaim.
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Katharine Quarmby short-listed for campaigning journalism Award
21 Feb 2012
Congratulations to Katharine Quarmby who has been short-listed for Private Eye’s The Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism 2011. The first prize of £5,000 will be presented at a ceremony in London on Tuesday 28 February, with each of the runners-up receiving £1,000. More details at
