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  • Desmond Seward shortlisted for a Military History Matters Book of the Year Award

    15 Dec 2020

    Desmond Seward has been shortlisted for a Military History Matters Book of the Year Award for The King Over The Water.

  • The Celestial Wife novel to S&S

    14 Dec 2020

    Simon & Schuster have bought World English rights in Leslie Howard’s novel The Celestial Wife.

  • Art is a Tyrant one of best art books of the year

    14 Dec 2020

    Catherine Hewitt’s biography of Rosa Bonheur Art is a Tyrant has made the Times’ list of best art books of the year

  • When We Fall chosen as one of the best historical novels of 2020

    14 Dec 2020

    Carolyn Kirby’s When We Fall has been chosen by the Times as one of the best historical novels of 2020 calling it a ‘A gripping novel..’

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    30 Nov 2020

    Turkish rights in Lady Colin Campbell’s Meghan and Harry : The Real Story.

    Portuguese rights in Roger Crowley’s The Accursed Tower:: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades.

    Korean rights in Chris Woodford’s Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Secret Science Hidden in Your Home

  • Mistresses is Book of the Year

    30 Nov 2020

    Linda Porter’s Mistresses: sex and scandal at the court of Charles II has been picked by Tracy Borman as one of her ‘Books of the Year’ in BBC History Magazine describing it as ‘a set of impeccably researched pen portraits of the seven women who dominated the king’s life…an engaging and enlightening read.’

  • History of North to Collins

    24 Nov 2020

    Harper North have bought World English rights in Brian Groom’s Northerners: A History. From the Ice Ages to the 21st Century

  • Mr Five Per Cent: wins Wadsworth Prize for Business History.

    24 Nov 2020

    Congratulations to Jonathan Conlin whose Mr Five Per Cent: : the many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world’s richest man. has won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History.

  • Viking biography to Birlinn

    09 Nov 2020

    Birlinn have bought World English rights in Desmond Seward’s biography of Olav Haraldsson (995-1030), sometimes called the viking saint or ‘Norges evige Konge’ (Norway’s eternal King).

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    02 Nov 2020

    Bulgarian rights in Roger Crowley’s Constantinople: The Last Great Siege..

    Uzbek rights in Jeremy Dronfield’s The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz.

    Romanian rights in Tony Spawforth’s The Story of Greece and Rome.