News
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New two-book deal with Harper Collins for Cathy Glass
03 Dec 2014
Harper Collins have bought world rights in two more fostering memoirs from bestselling author Cathy Glass. The first, Saving Danny, about a young Autistic boy, will be published in February and the secondA Very Bad Day about a young boy coping with his father’s suicide, will be published in September.
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Civilisation. A Greek and Roman Journey sold to Yale
03 Dec 2014
World rights in Professor Tony Spawforth’s Civilisation. A Greek and Roman Journey have been bought by Yale University Press. The book tells the story of how the Greeks developed a long-lasting civilisation which the Romans in due course took over by force, developed further and eventually used legionaries to defend against outside threats, before finally transmitting a classical legacy to the Middle Ages and so to us
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Casey Watson is no 17
03 Dec 2014
Casey Watson’s Nowhere to Go remains in the paperback non-fiction chart - this week at no 17.
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Coming Up Trumps is Guardian 2014 selection
03 Dec 2014
Baroness Trumpington’s lively memoir Coming Up Trumps, ghosted by agency author Deborah Crewe, has been selected by the Guardian as one of The best politics books of 2014.
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Jane Dismore in Social & Personal
02 Dec 2014
Jane Dismore has written a long feature for Ireland’s Social and Personal magazine on her new book Duchesses.
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More accolades for David Weston
01 Dec 2014
David Weston’s Covering Shakespeare has been named Best Theatre Memoir of 2014 by Theatre In Wales.
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MoneyWeek feature on The Great Charity Scandal
01 Dec 2014
There’s an interesting piece in this week’s MoneyWeek magazine on David Craig’s controversial new book The Great Charity Scandal.
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Dickie Arbiter is Daily Mail Christmas pick
28 Nov 2014
Dickie Arbiter’s sensational memoir On Duty with The Queen has been selected as one of the Daily Mail’s Christmas picks:
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New Kindle Single for Nicholas Best
28 Nov 2014
Nicholas Best’s dark new short story The Souvenir is the top title on the Kindle Singles homepage.
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
27 Nov 2014
Portuguese rights in On Duty with the Queen by Dickie Arbiter and Lynne Barrett-Lee
Greek rights in Manuel Arriaga’s Rebooting Democracy
Italian rights in Joyce Cary’s The Horse’s Mouth and House of Children
Sinalese rights in Cathy Glass’s Damaged
Polish rights in John Higg’s I Have America Surrounded
Swedish rights in Rachel Kelly’s Black Rainbow
French rights in Daniel Tammet’s The Novel of Chess
Finnish rights in Tim Tate’s Hitler’s Forgotten Children
Japanese rights in Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin’s Big Fella
Portuguese rights in Casey Watson’s The Girl Without a Voice
