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Andrew Lownie column in Words with Jam
02 Aug 2011
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City of Fortune makes Amazon history top ten
01 Aug 2011
Congratulations to Roger Crowley whose City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire published this week by Faber has already made the top ten Amazon history bestseller list.
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Gurpareet Bains is Chef of the Year
01 Aug 2011
Congratulations to Gurpareet Bains who has won Chef of the Year title at the English Curry Awards 2011.
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Christopher Marlowe crime novel to Severn House
22 Jul 2011
Severn House have bought Witch Hammer , the third in MJ Trow’s historical crime series featuring Kit Marlowe, scholar of Corpus Christi college and intelligencer for Francis Walsingham.
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1914 book to Osprey
22 Jul 2011
Kate Moore at Osprey has bought Adrian Gilbert’s Challenge of Battle: The Real Story of the British Army in 1914 , an historical appreciation of the British Army’s opening campaign of the First World War, for publication to mark the 90th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War.
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New Harry Keeble to Simon & Schuster
22 Jul 2011
Broken Angel , the third book in Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington’s Child Protection series, following on from the bestsellers Baby X and Little Victim has been sold to Simon & Schuster for publication next year.
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The Clegg Coup to Gibson Square Press
22 Jul 2011
Gibson Square Press have bought The Clegg Coup, the story of Nick Clegg’s rise to power and the Liberal revival, by distinguished journalist and Liberal Party insider Jasper Gerard for publication later this year.
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Biography of World War Two female spy to Macmillan
22 Jul 2011
George Morley at Macmillan has bought UK rights in Clare Mulley’s The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville , one of the most daring, successful, and most loved of all the Allies’ female special agents in the Second World War, for publication next year.
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Uupublished novel optioned by 2B Pictures
13 Jul 2011
Alan Baker’s unpublished thriller Dyatlov Pass has been optioned for film by director Simon Fellows and screenwriter/producer Andy Briggs. The novel is based on a true story, the Dyatlov Pass incident , in which nine ski-hikers died under bizarre and mysterious circumstances in the Ural Mountains in 1959.
Fellows has a number of feature films to his credit, including Malice in Wonderland (2009), a modern retelling of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale. Andy Briggs has written the YA series of novels HERO.COM and VILLAIN.NET, and has recently published the first of a new series of Tarzan novels with Faber & Faber.
A screen treatment of the story has been developed, funding with 2B Pictures is being negotiated and production may start as early as summer 2012.
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Uupublished novel optioned by 2B Pictures
13 Jul 2011
Alan Baker’s unpublished thriller Dyatlov Pass has been optioned for film by director Simon Fellows and screenwriter/producer Andy Briggs. The novel is based on a true story, the Dyatlov Pass incident , in which nine ski-hikers died under bizarre and mysterious circumstances in the Ural Mountains in 1959.
Fellows has a number of feature films to his credit, including Malice in Wonderland (2009), a modern retelling of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale. Andy Briggs has written the YA series of novels HERO.COM and VILLAIN.NET, and has recently published the first of a new series of Tarzan novels with Faber & Faber.
A screen treatment of the story has been developed, funding with 2B Pictures is being negotiated and production may start as early as summer 2012.
