News
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Roger Crowley moves to Yale
03 Jan 2017
Roger Crowley has moved with his editor Julian Loose to Yale who have bought UK and Commonwealth rights in End Game of the Crusades: The Siege of Acre 1291. Perseus have US rights.
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David McClure on King Charles III
23 Dec 2016
An interesting new piece by David McClure in the International Business Times:
King Charles III: Is the Queen getting ready to hand over the reins to her son?
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The People's Book Prize
22 Dec 2016
Two agency titles - David McGrath’s scintillating debut novel Rickshaw, and gripping police memoir A Life in Death - have been longlisted for The People’s Book Prize. Both are published by Thistle Books. You can vote for them here.
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Recent Foreign Rights sales
22 Dec 2016
Polish rights in Mary Hollingsworth’s The Medici.
Polish rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Russian Revolution.
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Renoir's Dancer sold in US
22 Dec 2016
US rights in Catherine Hewitt’s Renoir’s Dancer, the life of Suzanne Valadon, considered the Impressionists’ most beautiful model, have been sold to St Martin’s Press. Icon publish in the UK in 2017.
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James Barry is a Sunday Times Biography of Year
05 Dec 2016
Congratulations to Jeremy Dronfield and Michael Du Preez whose Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time has been named a Sunday Times Biography of Year and described as “this thoroughly engaging history”.
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Agency author short-listed for Blue Peter Prize
05 Dec 2016
The individuals in David Long’s Survivors (Faber & Faber) owe their good fortune to luck and perseverance as well as to some extraordinary ingenuity. Now this anthology of true stories, concerning eight escapees from the former East Germany, is on to the Blue Peter Book of the Year shortlist – one of just three titles to be selected by the judges.
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Ghostwriting tips from Katy Weitz
01 Dec 2016
Agency ghost writer Katy Weitz gives her top writing tips here
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David Weston in the Telegraph
29 Nov 2016
David Weston has written an entertaining piece in the Telegraph, in the course of promoting his excellent new novel Luciano’s War.
Kirk Douglas vs Richard Harris: Secrets of the most bitter feud in Hollywood’s golden age
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Agency authors make Times 'Books of the Year'
29 Nov 2016
Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield made the Biography section where it was described as ‘gripping, unusual, moving’ .
Josephine Wilkinson’s Katherine Howard : Tarnished Purity was selected in the history section. The Times felt “this book deserves commendation because of the painful truth it reveals about how women are abused by men and then blamed for the lust they arouse. Good history challenges us to think as much about the present as about the past.”
