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  • Auschwitz memoir optioned

    04 May 2015

    Sam Pivnik’s memoir of his incarceration in Auschwitz Survivor has been optioned by Blue-Zoo Productions

  • Book on Irish Troubles optioned

    04 May 2015

    John Rae’s Sister Genevieve has been optioned by Cineman Films Ltd

  • Roger Crowley's Constantinople optioned as tv mini-series

    04 May 2015

    An option for a television mini-series of Roger Crowley’s Constantinople: The Last Great Siege has been sold to Automatic Pictures.

  • Peter Padfield's Hess, Hitler and Churchill optioned

    04 May 2015

    Documentary rights in Peter Padfield’s Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of World War Two - A Secret History Peter Padfield’s have been optioned by Far Moor Media.

  • Helen Fry's The M Room: Secret Listeners who Bugged the Nazis optioned

    04 May 2015

    Helen Fry’s The M Room: Secret Listeners who Bugged the Nazis has been optioned by Inflammable Films.

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    02 May 2015

    Chinese rights in Patrick Dillon’s The Story of Buildings.

    Czech rights in Piu Eatwell’s They eat horses, don’t they?: The Truth about the French.

    Russian rights in Christian Wolmar’s To the edge of the world: The Story of the World’s Greatest Railway

  • Film rights sold in Mark Felton’s Zero Night

    02 May 2015

    Essential Media in Australia have optioned Mark Felton’s Zero Night: The Most Daring Great Escape of World War II.

  • New two-book deal for Cathy Glass with Harper Collins

    02 May 2015

    Harper Collins have bought world rights in two new Cathy Glass fostering memoirs. The first , A Dark and Dangerous Place, will be published in February.

  • Adrian Gilbert's book on Waffen SS bought by Da Capo

    02 May 2015

    Da Capo have bought World English rights in Adrian Gilbert’s Waffen SS: A Military History the military wing of Himmler’s SS and one of the most feared combat organizations of the 20th century.

  • The Story of Buildings short-listed for this year's School Library Association Information Book Award

    01 May 2015

    Congratulations to Patrick Dillon whose The Story of Buildings is one of three short-listed books in the 12-16 year old age group for this year’s School Library Association Information Book Award. The judges commented:

    This is a fascinating history of architecture which focuses not on architectural styles or individual buildings - although there is plenty of information about these - but on buildings in the context of their historical and geographical surroundings. Each section flows into the next in a way that combines chronological and thematic approaches. The illustrations are rich and detailed and clever use of fold-outs helps to emphasise the scale and complexity of the buildings featured, showing both the full building and it’s interior and details.

    The prize will be awarded in November