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  • What the Greeks did for us long-listed for award

    13 Jan 2024

    Congratulations to Tony Spawforth whose What the Greeks Did for Us has been long-listed for The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024.

  • A Seasonal Collection of Forgotten Words to Elliott & Thompson

    19 Dec 2023

    Elliott & Thompson have bought World English rights in Paul Jones’s A Winter Dictionary: A Seasonal Collection of Forgotten Words.

  • Raj history to John Murray

    18 Dec 2023

    John Murray have bought UK & Commonwealth (excluding Canada) in Harshan Kumarasingham’s The Decline and Fall of the British Raj.

  • Blindspots: How Looking Without Seeing Shapes Your Life and Determines Your Destiny to Bloomsbury

    18 Dec 2023

    Bloomsbury have bought World English rights in Blindspots: How Looking Without Seeing Shapes Your Life and Determines Your Destiny.

  • Yale buy US rights in Roger Crowley's history of the Spice trade.

    04 Dec 2023

    Yale have bought North American rights in Roger Crowley’s Spice: The sixteenth century contest that shaped the modern world.. Yale also have UK & Comonwealth rights.

  • History of Communism to Hurst

    04 Dec 2023

    Hurst have bought UK & Commonwealth rights in Sean McMeekin’s To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism. Basic have North American rights.

  • Awards for Helen Fry

    20 Nov 2023

    Congratulations to Helen Fry who has been awarded a Lifetime Contribution Award for Jewish Military History and Education by The Jewish Military Association (AJEX). Her most recent book, Women in Intelligence has been placed in Waterstones top books of the year on military history.

  • Important World War Two letters sold to Yale

    11 Nov 2023

    Yale have bought World English rights in Geoffrey Roberts’s edition of the wartime letters of Kathleen Harriman

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    29 Oct 2023

    Russian rights in Simon Berthon’s Warlords: An Extraordinary Re-creation of World War II through the Eyes and Minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin

    Italian rights in Danny Orbach’s Fugitives : A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War

    Vietnamese rights in Jo Wilkinson’s Louis XIV: The Gift of God

  • The Great Serotonin Swindle sold to The History Press

    29 Oct 2023

    World English rights have been sold in Joanna Moncrieff’s The Great Serotonin Swindle: how we have been misled about the nature of depression and antidepressants to The History Press.