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  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    14 Nov 2016

    Korean rights have been sold in Joe Fuhrmann’s Rasputin: The Untold Story.

    Hebrew rights have been sold in Danny Orbach’s The Plots Against Hitler.

    Chinese rights have been sold in Joff Sharpe’s Who Dares Wins in Business: Doing business the SAS way

  • The Plots Against Hitler sold to Head of Zeus

    14 Nov 2016

    UK and Commonwealth rights in Danny Orbach’s acclaimed book on resistance to Nazism The Plots Against Hitler have been sold to Head of Zeus. Houghton have just published in the US.

  • Sean McMeekin's new history of Russian Revolution sold to Profile

    14 Nov 2016

    Sean McMeekin’s revisionist account of the Russian Revolution, drawn from new archives, has been sold to Profile. Basic will publish in the US.

  • Cathy Glass remains in bestseller list

    09 Nov 2016

    Cathy Glass’s Can I Let You Go? remains in the charts for an eighth consecutive week - this time no 14.

  • Chloe Banks back in Amazon bestseller list

    08 Nov 2016

    Chloe Banks’ debut novel, The Art of Letting Go, has once again returned to the Amazon bestseller list, reaching number 39 over the weekend.

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    08 Nov 2016

    German rights in Duncan Falconer’s The Hostage.

    Italian rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

    Korean rights in Clare Mulley’s The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb

  • The Accidental Agent to Hodder

    08 Nov 2016

    World English rights in The Accidental Agent , a revisionist account of the Anglo-American relationship during the Second World War, by Phil Craig and Chris Jenner have been sold to Hodder.

  • Tom Devine book on Scottish Clearances to Penguin

    08 Nov 2016

    Penguin have bought UK & Commonwealth rights in Professor Sir Tom Devine’s new book - The Dispossessed.Clearances across Scotland 1660-1860, the first scholarly account looking at the nineteenth century Highland and Lowland clearances together.

  • Matt Wilvern selected to be a part of WH Smith Travel’s Fresh Talent promotion,

    08 Nov 2016

    Matt Wilven has been selected to be a part of WH Smith Travel’s Fresh Talent promotion, running from 12 January through March. This promotion will showcase about twelve up-and-coming authors throughout the year with a designated shelf and advertising in-store and a feature on the WH Smith blog.

  • Another great review for Patrick Garrett

    01 Nov 2016

    Patrick Garrett’s fascinating biography of journalist Clare Hollingworth, Of Fortunes and War, has received another rave review, this time from the Literary Review:

    ‘The list of her assignments reads like a potted history of warfare, espionage and terrorism…she emerges in Garrett’s book as a rounded personality…The story of her life is a kaleidoscope of world events, shot through with determination and courage. It’s a great read.’