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Mistresses is Radio 4 Book of the Week

10 Jun 2021

Linda Porter’s Mistresses: sex and scandal at the court of Charles II is going to be the Radio 4 book of the week on 26 July.

Nesbit biography wins prize.

10 Jun 2021

Congratulations to Eleanor Fitzsimons whose biography of Edith Nesbit has won the Independent Publisher Gold medal for Biography.

Marilyn Monroe book optioned

10 Jun 2021

Bombshell by Mike Rothmiller and Douglas Thompson has been optioned by Zinc Television

Recent Foreign Rights sales

17 May 2021

Romanian rights in Theo Aronson’s Crowns in Conflict: The Triumph and the Tragedy of European Monarchy 1910-1918

Korean rights in David Day’s Antarctica: A Biography

Italian rights in Piu Eatwell’s Black Dahlia, Red Rose

Russian rights in Cathy Glass’s Too Scared to Tell

Romanian rights in Sean McMeekin’s Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II.

Polish rights in Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers

New Cathy Glass memoir to Collins

17 May 2021

Harper Collins have bought world rights in Cathy Glass’s latest fostering memoir Neglected.

Prison memoir to Reach

09 May 2021

Reach Books have bought World English rights in Steve Wheeler’s The Art of Crime: : Diary of A Prison Art Tutor

Police memoir to Reach

09 May 2021

World English rights in Hot Pursuit by Matt Calveley with Nicola Stow have been bought by Reach Books.

UK rights sold in Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich

09 May 2021

Bonnier have bought UK & Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in Kitty’s Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich

Larry Enmon to Sharpe Books

09 May 2021

World English rights in Larry Enmon’s crime novel Murder So Foul have been sold to Sharpe Books together with his two previously published novels.

John Woolf wins award

09 May 2021

Congratulations to John Woolf who has been awarded by the Society of Authors, the John C Laurence Award for work that helps improve understanding between the races.