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  • 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.

  • Secrets of RMS Niagara: The British Gold Ship Sunk in a Nazi Minefield bought by History Press

    05 Jul 2025

    The History Press have bought World English rights in Jeff Maynard’s Secrets of RMS Niagara: The British Gold Ship Sunk in a Nazi Minefield

  • Secrets of RMS Niagara: The British Gold Ship Sunk in a Nazi Minefield bought by History Press

    05 Jul 2025

    The History Press have bought World English rights in Jeff Maynard’s Secrets of RMS Niagara: The British Gold Ship Sunk in a Nazi Minefield

  • Deaths of two authors

    24 Jun 2025

    I’m sorry to report the death of agency author Philip Walker. His first and only book Behind the Lawrence Legend: the Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt rewrote the story of TE Lawrence and the Arab Revolt by looking at a dozen British officers instrumental in its success.

    Sadly former Guardian journalist, novelist and crime writer Duncan Campbell has also just died. Campbell was legendary for his incisive reporting of many of the best known crime stories of the last four decades.

    Both men were in their seventies.

  • Recent translation sales

    10 Jun 2025

    Estonian rights in Paul Morland’s No One Left: Why the World Needs More Children.

    Spanish rights in Selwyn Parker’s The Great Crash

    Russian rights in Daniel Tammet’s Nine Minds.

  • US rights sold in Diana book

    28 May 2025

    Pegasus have bought North American rights in Andy Webb’s book on Diana and the Panorama interview Dianarama.

  • The Memory Artist to Profile

    28 May 2025

    Profile have bought World English rights in Daniel Tammet’s The Memory Artist, the biography of ‘Mr Memory’.

  • Recent translation sales

    21 May 2025

    Bulgarian rights in Christopher Fuhrmann’s Rasputin: The Untold Story.

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

    French rights in Cathy Glass’s A Family Torn Apart.

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

  • thriller-to-michael-joseph

    21 May 2025

    Michael Joseph have bought World rights in James Mack’s thriller The Kill Chain and in a further novel. They are also reissuing his backlist.