26 Feb 2014
Andrew Lownie has sold Eat Your Way To Lower Cholesterol: Delicious Recipes to Reduce Your Cholesterol by up to 20% in Under Three Months..., ,based on one of the most popular diet plans produced by the Mail on Sunday , and co-written by the agency’s author Dr Laura Corr, to Orion Books.
26 Feb 2014
Clare Mulley’s new book The Women Who Flew for Hitler: Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg, a joint biography of Nazi Germany’s most highly honoured female test-pilots, has been sold to Macmillan in the UK and St Martin’s Press in the US. This book searches for the truth about these two women, whose lives were so intertwined, asking why they were so successful, how they came to be so skilled and how they felt about serving Hitler, raising important questions around women’s willing denial and coercion in the Third Reich.
26 Feb 2014
Harper Collins have commissioned two further title in Casey Watson’s successful fostering series . Too Ugly for Love revolves around eight-year old Phillipa, who has Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, and The Runaway tells the story of Leo who sent to Casey’s unit because of his truancy.
26 Feb 2014
Harper Collins have commissioned a thirteenth fostering memoir from international bestselling author Cathy Glass. The Child Bride is the true story of Zeena who was forced to marry at the age of 13.
26 Feb 2014
Carol Lee’s Out of Winter, published this week by Hodder, is serialised in today’s Daily Mail.
26 Feb 2014
Jonathan Conlin’s Tales of Two Cities to Japan
Roger Crowley’s City of Fortune in Russian
26 Feb 2014
US rights in Ian Graham’s Courtesan, which tells the stories of the lives of the most famous, or notorious, women whose liaisons with royalty and aristocrats brought them wealth, fame and freedom , have been bought by St Martin’s Press.
26 Feb 2014
John Murray have bought world rights in Josephine Wilkinson’s life of Henry VIII’s fifth wife Katherine Howard.
26 Feb 2014
UK rights in Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time , a life of the high-ranking British army surgeon found on death in 1865 to have been a woman , by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield has been bought by Oneworld and the drama rights optioned .
25 Feb 2014
Congratulations to Kathleen O’Shea whose Little Drifters: Kathleen’s Story has risen to no 12 in the non-fiction paperback list this week.