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  • A Year of Living Calmly to Short Books

    30 Jan 2015

    Short Books have bought UK & Commonwealth rights in  A Year of Living Calmly, in which Rachel Kelly answers the question that she has been asked so often since the publication of her memoir, Black Rainbow: How words healed me - my journey through depression: ‘So what have you learnt about staying well after your breakdowns?’

  • Lots of agency titles on display at WHSmith

    28 Jan 2015

    A trip to WH Smith at the weekend witnessed a score of titles from agency clients Casey Watson, Cathy Glass and Lynne Barrett-Lee on display.

  • History of Sitwell family and Renishaw sold

    24 Jan 2015

    World English rights in Desmond Seward’s history of the Sitwell family and their house Renishaw have been bought by Elliott & Thompson.

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    24 Jan 2015

    Lithuanian rights in Hugh Brazier and Jan McCann’s The Book of 365 just published by Random House..

    Japanese rights in Nessa Carey’s Junk: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome shortly to be published by Icon and Columbia Press.

    Korean rights in Roger Crowley’s Constantinople: The Last Great Siege. published by Faber and Random House.

    Chinese rights in Roger Crowley’s Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire shortly to be published by Faber and Random House.

    Portuguese rights in Randall Hansen’s Disobeying Hitler published by Faber and OUP.

    Hebrew rights in Roger Howard’s Operation Damocles published by Thistle and Pegasus.

  • History of Ottoman Empire to Penguin

    24 Jan 2015

    Penguin have bought world rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

  • US rights in The Dead Duke sold to Norton

    24 Jan 2015

    Norton have bought US rights in Piu Eatwell’s The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue

  • Spy biography to Duckworth

    24 Jan 2015

    Duckworth have bought World English rights in Paddy Hayes’ life of Daphne Parks described by the Guardian as Britain’s ‘Queen of Spies’ and widely acknowledged as being one of Britain’s leading Cold War Intelligence officers.

  • Good reviews for Juliet Barker

    21 Jan 2015

    ‘An accessible and informative read for history enthusiasts and useful for undergraduate students as the most complete modern account of the rising… An engaging and thought-provoking account…’
    History Today

    ‘Barker is meticulous about her research… It is Barker’s great skill in selecting precisely the right small, individual human stories that really bring the past alive.’
    Yorkshire Post

  • Mark Felton on BBC Cambridge

    15 Jan 2015

    Mark Felton was on BBC Cambridge talking about his new book Zero Night. You can listen again here.

  • Rachel Kelly writes for The Oldie

    15 Jan 2015

    Rachel Kelly has written a piece in praise of mothers, in The Oldie.