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Books of the Year 10 Dec 2024
Congratulations to the following authors whose books made ‘Books of the Year’:
Roger Crowley’s Spice: The sixteenth century contest that shaped the modern world in the Times.
Mary Hollingsworth’s Catherine de Medici: The Life & Times of the Serpent Queen in the Daily Telegraph’s ‘The best biographies and memoirs of 2024’, and the Financial Times’s ‘The best 10 history books of the year’.
Roger Morris’s Death of a Princess in Aspects of HIstory
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Daniel Tammet’s Nine Minds in the Sydney Morning Herald. and a Watestones ‘Best Popular Science Book of 2024’
Richard Wallace’s The King’s Loot in the Daily Mail.
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Pope's Chef to History Press 01 Aug 2024
The History Press have bought World English rights in The Pope’s Chef, Mary Hollingsworth’s biography of the Renaissance chef Bartolomeo Scappi .
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Recent Foreign Rights sales 23 Jan 2022
Hungarian rights in Mary Hollingsworth’s The Medici.
Romanian rights in Andrew Lownie’s Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
Russian rights in Andrew Lownie’s Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Chinese rights in Steven Runciman’s Lost Capital of Byzantium
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Two-book deal with Head of Zeus for Mary Hollingsworth 07 Jul 2020
Head of Zeus have made a two-book world right deal with Mary Hollingsworth for a life of Catherine de Medici and on the papal conclave of 1559.
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Recent Foreign Rights sales 15 Mar 2020
Hungarian rights in David Cornell’s Bannockburn: A New History.
Chinese rights in Mary Hollingsworth’s The Medici.
Polish rights in Carolyn Kirby’s novel When We Fall.
Portuguese rights in Tony Spawforth’s The Story of Greece and Rome.
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Recent Foreign Rights sales 06 Jan 2020
Mary Hollingsworth’s The Borgias : History’s Most Notorious Dynasty to Poland.
Russian rights in Fabulous Finn: The Brave Police Dog Who Was Stabbed and Came Back from the Brink by Dave Wardell with Lynne Barrett-Lee
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Princes of the Renaissance to Head of Zeus 04 Apr 2018
Head of Zeus have bought world rights in Mary Hollingsworth’s Princes of the Renaissance.
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Princes of the Renaissance to Head of Zeus 04 Apr 2018
Head of Zeus have bought world rights in Mary Hollingsworth’s Princes of the Renaissance.
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Recent Foreign Rights sales 22 Nov 2017
Slovakian and Czech rights in The Borgias by Mary Hollingsworth.
Croatian rights in Danny Orbach;’s The Plots Against Hitler.
Chinese rights in Daniel Tammet’s Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with Language.
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The Medici is London bestseller for second week running 26 Oct 2017
Mary Hollingsworth’s The Medici is a top five bestseller for the second week running in the Evening Standard.
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The Medici is London bestseller 19 Oct 2017
Congratulations to Mary Hollingworth whose The Medici is a top Five London bestseller.
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US rights sold in history of the Medici 04 Apr 2017
Pegasus have bought US rights in Mary Hollingsworth’s The Medici, a companion to her history of The Borgias. Head of Zeus publish in the UK later in the year and Polish rights have already been sold.
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History of Medici family to Head of Zeus 21 Jul 2016
Head of Zeus have bought World English rights in Mary Hollingsworth’s history of the Medici family for publication next year.
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Thistle books in Amazon 'Big Spring Deal' 04 Apr 2014
This month, an amazing 15 titles from Thistle Publishing have been selected for Amazon’s ‘Big Spring Deal’ promotion, all available for just 99p each.
Fiction:
Bing Banged My Lula
Brilliantly raunchy novel from ex-model Frankie Park. Think Bridget Jones after the divorce with a kid on her hands and needing a new man like a hole in the head …
Dodger - Down Under: The Further Adventures of the Artful Dodger 1827-1832
“I have always thought the Artful Dodger’s story needed telling and now David Weston has told it, in a wonderfully engaging way.” - Julian Fellowes
Maxwell’s Movie
“An engaging crime tale, featuring schoolmaster-detective ‘Mad Max’ Maxwell, who is in top form as he helps the police to investigate the disappearance of a fellow teacher. A character to savour.” - Northern Echo
Maxwell’s Ride
On a trip to a theme park, Maxwell’s ride on the log flume is a little more white-knuckle than he was expecting when a stray bullet whips past him and his charges before killing the accountant in the car behind. Who was that gunman on the grassy knoll?
Lestrade and the Guardian Angel
‘It’s an authentic whodunnit with a surprising twist at the end you’ll kick yourself for not guessing sooner.’ - Punch
The Third Betrayal
“Very impressive - for devious depth this one beats the band.” - THE OBSERVER
Frontier of Fear
“Superior stuff – taut, well-observed, original.” - THE TIMES
Tom Kennedy
A chance meeting at the Menin Gate in 1969 between a young War Studies lecturer and an elderly Benedictine monk sparks a close friendship – one that will ultimately lead a dying Father Peter Quinn to entrust a family’s tragic secret to John Malcolm…
The Seventh Moon
A new thriller from the international bestselling author of THE MASK OF TIME and THE ORIGINAL SIN.
One Winter of the Holy Spirit
“One of the most talked-about novels of the year.” - Western Mail
Non-fiction:
Conclave
“If you want to understand what’s happening in the Vatican now, read this book. Gripping, lurid and fascinating, both scholarly and utterly readable, oozing with original academic research, its a minute-by-minute, day-by-day account of all the intrigues, maneouvres, deals, politics and scandals of a papal conclave.” - SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva - The Eighteenth Century Gin Craze
‘Patrick Dillon has gathered together some marvellous tales here… This book is as crowded with sensational incident as an 18th-century newspaper… With its manic tempo, Dillon’s prose embodies the relentless energy of the time… the city’s infinite variety is also successfully invoked. He has, too, a gift for simplifying complex issues.’ - Daily Telegraph
John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier
‘Admirably readable, this book will be invaluable to those who are now encountering Buchan’s work for the first time. Lownie’s lucid account of Buchan’s life redefines the man as infinitely more complex than he thought he was.’ - The Sunday Times
Warlords: An Extraordinary Re-creation of World War II Through the Eyes and Minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
“Gripping, innovative and perceptive… It reads like a thriller but it is also a scholarly, impeccably researched piece of work… superlative.” - Tribune
Who Dares Wins In Business
‘A good read. Sharpe has certainly done his homework, and generated lots of interesting, relevant facts and stories from both military and corresponding business situations.’ - Ben Legg, CEO - AdKnowledge
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'Conclave' in Bury Mercury 06 Jun 2013
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Two-page spread for 'Conclave' 25 Mar 2013
Mary Hollingsworth’s timely book about a papal election, Conclave, is the subject of a two-page spread in the EDT:
Conclave
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Thistle Publishing launches 'Conclave' 01 Mar 2013
Thistle Publishing, the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency’s exciting new imprint, has launched Mary Hollingsworth’s excellent, timely new book about the papal conclave.
Conclave
“If you want to understand what’s happening in the Vatican now, read this book. Gripping, lurid and fascinating, both scholarly and utterly readable, oozing with original academic research, its a minute-by-minute, day-by-day account of all the intrigues, maneouvres, deals, politics and scandals of a papal conclave.”
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, author of JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY
