News
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Two agency titles reviewed in weekend Telegraph
07 Aug 2017
Lewis Jones described Julia Boyd’s Travellers in the Third Reich as ‘a compelling narrative’ where the voices of her interviewees ‘skilfully orchestrated, speak for themselves…with great eloquence whilst Ivan Hewett reviewing Adam Ockelford’s Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music felt ‘there is much to learn from this book’.
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Latest on tv plans for James Barry book
12 Jul 2017
The latest news with regard to Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield is that Warner Bros TV is getting ready to start pitching to networks to try and get a series off the ground. They’ve signed up actress Sarah Paulson (lead in American Horror Story etc.) to play James Barry.
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Emma Wells's book on world's greatest cathedrals sold to Head of Zeus
12 Jul 2017
Head of Zeus have bought world rights in Emma Wells’s Heaven on Earth , an illuminating narrative of the conception and legacies of twenty of the world’s greatest cathedrals interwoven with an exploration of the lives, legends and scandals of the people who built them .
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Wilde's Women shortlisted for Rubery Book Award
12 Jul 2017
Congratulations to Eleanor Fitzsimons whose Wilde’s Women , published by Duckworth and Overlook, has made the short list for the Rubery Book Award, an international prize for indie writers, self published authors and books published by independent presses.
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Recent Foreign Rights sales
12 Jul 2017
Spanish rights in Julian Maclaren-Ross’s Of Love and Hunger
Macedonian rights in John Worthen’s life of Robert Schumann.
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US rights sold in book on the Queen's childhood
06 Jul 2017
Globe Pequot have bought North American rights in Jane Dismore’s Behind Golden Doors: the life of Princess Elizabeth. The book will be published next year.
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New Cathy Glass memoir to Harper Collins
06 Jul 2017
Collins have bought world rights in Cathy Glass’s latest fostering memoir A Long Way From Home, the story of Anna originally brought up in a state orphanage.
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Yale buy study of Churchill in pivotal year 1921
23 Jun 2017
Yale have bought World English rights in David Stafford’s Churchill 1921: This wonderful and terrible year a year which transformed him from the caricatured figure of the bombastic and unpredictable risk taker to statesmanlike Cabinet member and potential prime minister.
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Weekend Walks to Pavilion
23 Jun 2017
Pavilion have bought world rights in Mark Conroy’s Weekend Walks which explore the lives and works of literary greats from Shakespeare to Dickens, film favourites from Harry Potter to James Bond, historical events from the Great Fire to the Blitz, legends from the Beatles to Jack the Ripper, landmarks from Olympic Parks to Royal Palaces.
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Great review for The Saint Jude Rules
14 Jun 2017
Another terrific review for The Saint Jude Rules, book three in Dominic Adler’s gritty Cal Winter series of action-packed thrillers.
“Hard-hitting, smart and snarky, this non-stop action romp pulls few punches as rogue Special Ops killers bite back at the illicit agency which betrayed them.”
