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The Celestial Wife top pick for spring

22 Mar 2024

The prominent Canadian magazine Chatelaine has picked The Celestial Wife as one of their favourite books for spring.

Book on Japanese Military Brutality to Hurst

06 Mar 2024

Hurst have bought World English rights in Danny Orbach’s Punishment: Behind Japanese Military Brutality.

Albanian spy book to Icon

05 Mar 2024

Icon have bought UK & Commonwealth (excluding Canada) in Steve Long’s A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit: MI6-CIA Covert Action in Communist Albania

New Steve Tibble to Yale

05 Mar 2024

Yale have bought World English rights in Steve Tibble’s Assassins and Templars: Death Cults of the Crusades

Third week in top ten for Damaged.

20 Feb 2024

Cathy Glass’s Damaged remains for a third week in the top ten. This week at no 5.

Caribbean police memoir to Bonnier

19 Feb 2024

Bonnier have bought World English rights in Richard Preston’s memoir of his two years as a police officer in the Caribbean Calypso Beat.

New Ann Cusack to Reach

15 Feb 2024

Reach have bought World English rights in The Letter by Sarah Sidebottom with Ann Cusack.

Recent Foreign Rights sales

15 Feb 2024

Cathy Glass’ Swedish publisher Nona for two more titles – A Life Lost and An Innocent Baby. Cathy Glass’ French publisher L’Archipel/Archipoche for A Long Way from Home,

Polish rights for Daniel Tammet’s Nine Minds.

A Family of Kings optioned by Palomar Productions

15 Feb 2024

Palomar Productions have optioned Theo Aronson’s A Family of Kings: The Descendants of Christian IX of Denmark the story of the crowned children and grandchildren of Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark focusing on the half-century before the First World War.

Peter Watson biography optioned

15 Feb 2024

Maypole Productions have optioned Queer Saint: The Cultured Life of Peter Watson by Adrian Clark and Jeremy Dronfield.