16 May 2016
EOne Features have optioned film rights in Mark Felton’s Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini’s Colditz
16 May 2016
Hartswood Films, the makers of Sherlock, have optioned drama rights in Andrew Lownie’s Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess.
16 May 2016
Louise Moir’s powerful new memoir Irreplaceable was serialised this weekend in the Sunday Mirror.
I want my children to remember their dad as amazing not for his suicide
13 May 2016
Patrick Dillon’s new historical novel Ithaca, an alternative retelling of the Odyssey, has had a great review from Publishers Weekly.
‘Dillon’s vibrant retelling… is as rich as it is complex. This is a smart and highly readable adventure, and a fresh take on a classic story.’
13 May 2016
Congratulations to Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac whose The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers is no 5 in the Evening Standard’s non-fiction London Bestsellers.
12 May 2016
Cathy Glass’s The Silent Cry is no 19 in paperback non-fiction list and has now spent three months in the bestseller lists.
06 May 2016
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose The Silent Cry is no 11 this week.
28 Apr 2016
Osprey have bought UK rights in Christian Jennings’s two wartime histories At War on the Gothic Line: : Fighting in Italy 1944-‘45 (shortly to be published by St Martin’s Press in the US) and Trieste ’45 : First Battle of the Cold War.
27 Apr 2016
Cathy Glass’s The Silent Cry remains in the bestseller lists - this week at no 12.
25 Apr 2016
We’re sad to announce that the great Irish novelist Michael Curtin recently passed away. Michael’s many fans included Roddy Doyle, who described him as “one of Ireland’s best writers”. There was a nice tribute in the Limerick Leader.