News
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Revisionist look at Second World War to Basic
22 Dec 2017
Basic have bought North American rights in Sean McMeekin’s revisionist look at the Second World War Stalin’s War .
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Book on British Fifth Column optioned
22 Dec 2017
Tim Tate’s Spies, Saboteurs & Traitors: The secret history of Hitler’s British Fifth Column has been optioned by At Land Productions.
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Churchill book optioned for film
22 Dec 2017
David Lough’s No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money has been optioned by Carnival Films.
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Recent Foreign Rights sales
22 Dec 2017
Jon Conlin’s Mr 5% in Turkey.
Cathy Glass’s Damaged in Iceland.
Cathy’s Glass’s Silent Cry in Sri Lanka
Selwyn Parker’s The Great Crash in China.
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Helen Fry on 'David Jason’s Secret Service'
19 Dec 2017
Don’t miss author and historian Helen Fry on ‘David Jason’s Secret Service’ tonight at 9pm on More4, talking about her extraordinary book Spymaster.
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John Woolf wins Biographers Club Prize
18 Dec 2017
Congratulations to John Woolf whose Queen Victoria’s Freaks is the winner of this year’s Biographers Club prize for the best uncommissioned proposal.
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Daniel Tammet one of the winners for the Booklist Editors' Choice awards 2017.
17 Dec 2017
Congratulations to Daniel Tammet whose Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with Language was one of the winners for the Booklist Editors’ Choice awards 2017.
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Gavin Evans gives TED talk on Feminism, Fatherhood and the Nurturing Instinct
13 Dec 2017
Gavin Evans, the author of Mapreaders and Multitaskers: Men, Women, Nature Nurture, has given a fascinating TED talk on the topic of Feminism, Fatherhood and the Nurturing Instinct. You can watch it here.
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Vikie Shanks on Woman's Hour
13 Dec 2017
Vikie Shanks was on Woman’s Hour this week, discussing her book Unravelled, and the resulting Netflix film Kingdom of Us. You can listen again here (interview starts at 18.36).
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Award nomination for James Dixon
13 Dec 2017
James Dixon’s extraordinary debut novel The Unrivalled Transcendence of Willem J. Gyle has been nominated for the Rosie’s Book Awards 2017. You can vote here (please do).
