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  • New Casey Watson memoir to Harper Collins

    28 Jun 2019

    World English rights in the latest fostering memoir from Casey Watson and Lynne Barrett-Lee Twenty Eight Days have been bought by Harper Collins

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    06 Jun 2019

    Macedonian rights in The Girl With no Name by Marina Chapman and Lynne Barrett-Lee.

    German rights in Cathy’s Glass’s Cut.

    Swedish rights in The Boy No One Loved by Casey Watson.

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    28 May 2019

    Hungarian rights in Julia Boyd’s Travellers in the Third Reich.

    Japanese rights in Nessa Carey’s Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures.

    Estonian rights in Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS by John Carney and Clifford Thurlow.

    Spanish rights in The Accursed Tower:: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades by Roger Crowley.

    Italian rights in Christian Jennings’ At War on the Gothic Line: : Fighting in Italy 1944-’45 and The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German code-breaking 1935-‘45.

    Estonian rights in Hitler’s Last Plot : The 139 Men, Women, and Children Saved from Imminent Execution in the Final Days of the Third Reich by Ian Sayer and Jeremy Dronfield.

  • Mark Peel short-listed for Cricket Book of the Year

    15 May 2019

    Congratulations to Mark Peel whose Playing the Game? Cricket’s Tarnished Ideals from Bodyline to the Present has been short-listed for the Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year.

  • Midwife memoir to Bonnier

    16 Apr 2019

    World rights in the midwife memoir Stand and Deliver: Amazing True Stories of Birth, Life & Death by Phillipa George with Katy Weitz have been bought by Bonnier.

  • Amberley buys new Jack the Ripper book

    13 Apr 2019

    UK & Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) have been sold in Jack the Ripper: The French Connection which provides a new candidate and one originally suspected by Scotland Yard.

  • Travellers in the Third Reich wins LA Times Book Prize

    13 Apr 2019

    Congratulations to Julia Boyd whose Travellers in the Third Reich has won the LA Times Book Prize in the history section.

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    12 Apr 2019

    Simplified Chinese in Jonathan Conlin’s Mr Five Per Cent: the many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world’s richest man.

    German rights in Andy Donaldson’s Dreadful Estate Agent Photos.

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

    Czech rights in Adrian Gilbert’s Waffen SS: A Military History.

  • The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz is a #1 in Hungary.

    11 Apr 2019

    Jeremy Dronfield’s The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz is a #1 in Hungary.

    Kurt Kleinmann , whose brother Fritz is the subject of the book, was awarded a medal of honour at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s annual National Tribute Dinner last night.

  • Two cricket titles to Pitch Publishing

    29 Mar 2019

    Pitch Publishing have bought World English rights in Mark Peel’s next two cricketing titles - Cricketing Caesar: The Biography of Mike Brearley and ‘The Hollow Crown: The England Cricket Captaincy from 1945 to the Present.