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10 May 2008
Hidden by Cathy Glass remains in the top ten
Hidden by Cathy Glass remains in the top ten for an eighth week.
08 May 2008
TV & Film News
Marguerite van Geldermalsen's Married to a Bedouin has been optioned by Susie Wells.
Damien Lewis' Operation Certain Death has been re-optioned.
John and Celia Lee's Winston & Jack has been optioned by Lion TV.
Chris Lloyd has signed a development option with Endemol for his new book On the Impact of Species: A Ranking of Nature’s Most Influential Life-forms from the Dawn of History to the Present Day.
John Rae's Sister Genevieve optioned by Cineman Films.
07 May 2008
Recent Deals in May 2008
Patrick Alexander's Recollections of a Racketeer to Mainstream for publication next year.
David Ellis’s That Summer of 1816: Byron on the Lake of Geneva to Haus for publication in 2010.
Kris Hollington's The London of Sherlock Holmes to John Blake for publication in 2009.
Damien Lewis's Apache Dawn and Firebase Apache to Little Brown for publication respectively in autumn 2008 and summer 2009.
Chris Lloyd's On the Impact of Species: A Ranking of Nature's Most Influential Life-forms from the Dawn of History to the Present Day to Bloomsbury for publication in 2010.
Russ Willey's Brewer's London Phrase and Fable to Chambers for publication next year.
John Worthen's Short Life of TS Eliot to Haus for publication next year.
American rights in Lawrence James's biography of Lawrence of Arabia The Golden Warrior to Skyhorse Publishing for reissue next year.
06 May 2008
Audio rights in two of Mei Trow's Lestrade crime novels
Audio rights in two of Mei Trow's Lestrade crime novels have also been sold to Soundings and he, too, will be reading them himself.
05 May 2008
Cathy Glass's Hidden enters it's seventh week in the top
Cathy Glass's Hidden enters it's seventh week in the top ten non-fiction paperback bestseller list.
Damien Lewis's Cobra 405 also remains in the top
Damien Lewis's Cobra 405 also remains in the top ten of Fiction Heatseekers.
03 May 2008
Christian Wolmar was on Dom Joly's series
Christian Wolmar was on Dom Joly's series on complainers on Channel 5 and has recorded interviews for two different films about Beeching, both being screened in the autumn – Ian Hislop’s assessment of the industry's most notorious character and a series on Railway Walks along abandoned lines. He is also presenting a documentary for BBC TV Wales looking at the root of the problems of the First Great Western franchise which is to be screened later this month. A small company called 1stTake is producing a DVD of Fire & Steam which will be available in the autumn and he is also recording a CD of the whole book for Soundings.
24 April 2008
Damien Lewis’s Cobra 405
Damien Lewis's Cobra 405 rises from no 5 to no 4 this week in 'Top 20 Fiction Heatseekers'.
Cathy Glass's Hidden remains at no 5
Cathy Glass's Hidden remains at no 5 for another week.
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