News
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Vikie Shanks on BBC Radio
01 Mar 2016
Vikie Shanks was on the Graham Torrington show, promoting her powerful memoir Unravelled. You can hear the full interview here (begins at 1.23).
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
21 Feb 2016
Chinese rights in Lynne Barrett-Lee’s Novel: Plan it, Write it, Sell it
Russian rights in Roger Crowley’s Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire.
German and Polish rights in Rachel Kelly’s Walking on Sunshine: 52 Steps to Happiness
Polish rights in Andrew Lownie’s Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
Indonesian rights in Eleanor of Aquitaine by Desmond Seward
Bulgarian rights in Desmond Seward’s Napoleon and Hitler
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Book on Japanese military culture sold to Cornell University Press
21 Feb 2016
World English rights in Danny Orbach’s Curse on this Country have been sold to Cornell University Press. Based on original documents in fifteen archives and five different languages, the book sheds light on the underground culture of insubordination that became increasingly dominant in the Japanese armed forces, until it made the Pacific War possible
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Thistle in Writing Magazine
16 Feb 2016
There’s a nice piece on the agency’s publishing imprint Thistle Books in the current issue of Writing Magazine.
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Mail serial for 999 CSI
16 Feb 2016
The sensational new police memoir 999 CSI by Larry Henderson was serialised this week in the Daily Mail. The book has just been published by the agency’s imprint Thistle Books.
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Nick Pope and the X-Files
15 Feb 2016
Nick Pope has been busy in the media, writing about his real-life experiences to coincide with the relaunch of The X-Files.
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Able Seacat Simon is no 13 in hardback fiction chart
10 Feb 2016
Congratulations to Lynne Barrett-Lee whose Able Seacat Simon remains in the hardback fiction bestseller list at no 13
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Book on luck to Duckworth and Overlook
09 Feb 2016
Overlook and Duckworth have bought World English rights in Professor Gary Smith’s Lucky which looks at the importance of luck in everyday life. They published Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions,Tortured Data and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
