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  • Author Hugh Brazier dies

    13 Jul 2026

    The agency is sad to announce that author Hugh Brazier, author of The Book of 365, has died. Our condolences to his family.

  • Sean McMeekin wins Hayek Book Prize.

    13 Jul 2026

    Congratulations to Sean McMeekin whose To Overthrow the World was the winner of the 2026 Hayek Book Prize.

  • Nazi Ghost Train makes top ten

    13 Jul 2026

    Congratulations to Greg Lewis who latest book Nazi Ghost Train reached no 8 in the Sunday Times bestseller list.

  • A Spy in the Family wins True Crime Book Of The Year

    30 Jun 2026

    Congratulations to David Gardner and Paul Henderson whose A Spy in the Family has won this year’s True Crime Book Of The Year . The judges stressed how it was “steeped in history and delivered in a breathtakingly gripping way.” The book was also shortlisted for Best Audiobook.

  • Recent translation sales

    26 Aug 2025

    Chinese rights in Michael Banks’ s Physics Around the Clock: Adventures in the Science of Everyday Living.

    Arabic rights in Simon Berthon’s Warlords: An Extraordinary Re-creation of World War II through the Eyes and Minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin.

    Arabic rights in Nicholas Best’s Five Days That Shocked The World: An Oral History of Europe at the End of World War Two.

    Arabic rights in Julia Boyd’s The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician.

    Romanian rights in Roger Crowley’s Spice: The sixteenth century contest that shaped the modern world.

    Dutch rights in A Spy in the Family by David Gardner and Paul Henderson.

    Mexican rights in Sarah Bax Horton’s One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper.

    Arabic rights in Andrew Lownie’s The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves.

    Polish rights in Andrew Lownie’s Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York.

    Turkish rights in Joanna Moncrieff’s Chemically Imbalanced: the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth.

    Portuguese rights in Geoff Roberts’s Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books.

  • A woman's search for justice bought by Reach

    26 Aug 2025

    The Reckoning by Tara Proffitt with Ann Cusack has been bought by Reach.

  • Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York becomes international bestseller

    26 Aug 2025

    Andrew Lownie’s Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York was published by William Collins in the UK and The Westminster Press in US. After a five-day serial in the Daily Mail it immediately shot to no 1 on Amazon.co.uk and no 1 overall on the Sunday Times bestseller list.

  • Memoir by survivor of Fred West serialised in Mail

    26 Aug 2025

    Under Their Roof: My shocking true story of surviving serial killers by Kathleen Richards with Ann Cusack was serialised in the Daily Mail.

  • Latest Ann Cusack memoir to Reach

    10 Jul 2025

    Reach have bought World English rights in The Reckoning by Tara Proffitt and Ann Cusack

  • Recent translation sales

    05 Jul 2025

    Polish rights in Andy Dobson’s Flaws of Nature.

    Finish rights in A Spy in the Family by David Gardner and Paul Henderson.

    Swedish rights in Ross King’s The Shortest History of Italy.