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  • The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz 'Book of the Year'

    06 Jan 2020

    Congratulations to Jeremy Dronfield who ended a successful year with ‘Book of the Year’ selections in the Express and Mail on Sunday for The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz.

  • US rights sold in The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz

    15 Dec 2019

    Harper Collins have bought US rights in Jeremy Dronfield’s international bestseller The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz.

  • New Daniel Tammet book

    15 Dec 2019

    Quercus have bought world rights in How to be ‘normal’: Notes on the eccentricities of modern life, a dozen succinctly poetic sketches on modern life’s eccentricities.

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    15 Dec 2019

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

    French rights in Cathy Glass’s Nobody’s Son.

    Dutch rights in Stuart Smith’s Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple

    Estonian rights in Lisa Stone’s The Doctor

  • Two agency titles in Daily Mail Books of the Year

    15 Dec 2019

    Helen Fry’s The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II and Andrew Lownie’s The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves were chosen respectively under War Books and Biographies.

  • Nesbit biography picked by Sunday Times

    07 Dec 2019

    Congratulations to Eleanor Fitzsimons whose The Life and Loves of Edith Nesbit: Victorian Iconoclast, Children’s Author, and Creator of The Railway Children was picked as a biography of the year by the Sunday Times.

  • New Cathy Glass to Harper Collins

    07 Dec 2019

    Harper Collins have bought World rights in Cathy Glass’s A Dreadful Secret, the story of fourteen-year old Layla who puts herself into foster care because of problems at home.

  • The Lenin Plot: The true story of America’s war against Russia sold in UK

    07 Dec 2019

    Amberley have bought UK rights in Barnes Carr’s The Lenin Plot: The true story of America’s war against Russia

  • Spy book to The History Press

    07 Dec 2019

    UK rights in American Detective: Leon Turrou and the Exposure of the Nazi Spy Ring in America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones have been bought by The History Press

  • Another week for The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz

    25 Nov 2019

    Jeremy Dronfield’s The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz remains in the paperback bestseller list at no 7.