News
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Non-fiction deal for David Haviland
29 Aug 2014
David Haviland has sold journalist Alice Vasey’s fostering memoir Afraid to Tell: The true story of two troubled children with a dark family secret to Ebury.
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Andrew Lownie remains no 1 for UK non-fiction
29 Aug 2014
According to Publishers Marketplace Andrew Lownie is
#1 in International rights: UK Non-fiction #1 in Non-fiction: Biography #2 in Non-fiction: History/Politics/Current Affairs For Uk non-fiction he has 54 deals over the last twelve months with the second place agent having 10. -
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Nothing Rhymes With Orange sold to Elliott & Thompson
28 Aug 2014
Eliott & Thompson have bought UK rights in Paul Jones’s Nothing Rhymes With Orange a chain of 1,000 weird and wonderful words and word trivia , creating a fact-by-fact journey through the dictionary and the languages of the world from aardvark (which means ‘earth-pig’ in Afrikaans) to zenzizenzizenzic (a number raised to its eighth power),
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
27 Aug 2014
Australian rights in On Duty with the Queen by Dickie Arbiter with Lynne Barrett-Lee
Georgian rights in Nessa Carey’s The Epigenetics Revolution
German rights in The Devil on my Doorstep by Annabelle Forest and Katy Weitz
Sri Lankan rights in Cathy Glass’s Daddy’s Little Princess
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UK rights sold in powerful, first-person account of being at the heart of one of the Nazi’s cruellest and most obscene experiments
27 Aug 2014
UK rights in Tim Tate’s Hitler, Erika and Me , a powerful, first-person account of being at the heart of one of the Nazi’s cruellest and most obscene experiments - the Lebensborn program to create a new Aryan master race - have been sold to Eliott & Thompson.
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Journalist Duncan Campbell's new crime book sold to Elliott & Thompson
27 Aug 2014
UK rights in journalist Duncan Campbell’s We’ll All Be Murdered In Our Beds: a history of the world of crime reporting have been sold to Elliott & Thompson.
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Anorexia memoir to John Blake
27 Aug 2014
Seconds to Snap: The Horrifying True Story of One Girl’s Descent into Anorexia by Tina McGuff with Katy Weitz has been sold to John Blake.
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More international coverage for Terrible Estate Agent Photos
26 Aug 2014
BBC Radio Scotland (at 44:40)
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Great review for Louisa Treger
26 Aug 2014
‘Treger’s writing flows easily and the book is impeccably researched, making this an enjoyable read. Dorothy Richardson may not be a household name, but Treger’s novel does a fine job of showing just how compelling her life was in this novel full of passion, history and literature.’
