News
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Granta buys On Mothers and Men
30 Dec 2013
Vanessa Nicolson’s family memoir, On Mothers and Men, centred around the death of her nineteen year old daughter and her own complex relationship with her parents has been bought by Granta as a lead title for next year.
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Royal Memoir to Bonnier
30 Dec 2013
Bonnier have bought World English rights in the memoirs of the Queen’s former Press Secretary Dickie Arbiter for publication next autumn. The book, already the subject of diary pieces and serial and foreign interest, will provide a rare insight into the life of the Queen and her family not least the marriage breakdown of Prince Charles and the events surrounding the death of Princess Diana.
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'Novel' reaches category top spots
29 Dec 2013
Lynne Barrett-Lee’s creative writing guide Novel: Plan it. Write it. Sell it. has reached number one in its Amazon categories Authorship, Publishing and Books.
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BBC feature for Jeremy Clay
29 Dec 2013
‘Life in Victorian times was arguably considerably more dangerous than now, if the newspaper reports of the time are anything to go by, writes Jeremy Clay…’
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Pegasus buy two further Desmond Seward titles
21 Dec 2013
US publisher Pegasus has bought two further Desmond Seward titles - The Last White Rose: Fear and Paranoia in the Tudor Court and his forthcoming history of the Plantagenets The Demon’s Brood.
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Lance Armstrong's whistleblower memoir to Transworld
21 Dec 2013
Transworld has bought Race to Truth in which Lance Armstrong’s soigneur Emma O’Reilly lifts the lid on life behind the Tour de France and one of the biggest sports scandals this century.
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Child of Courage: My Escape From a Satanic Sex Cult goes to S&S
21 Dec 2013
Annabelle Forest’s Child of Courage: My Escape From a Satanic Sex Cult, ghosted by Katy Weitz, has been sold to Simon & Schuster at auction with Sidgwick as the under-bidder.
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Square Peg buys Terrible Estate Agent Photos
21 Dec 2013
Andy Donaldson’s Terrible Estate Agent Photos based on his successful blog has been bought by Random House imprint Square Peg.
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Black Inc buys Full Brazilian
21 Dec 2013
Black Inc have bought ANZ rights in Full Brazilian - the memoirs of lapdancer Gabriella Santos. UK & US rights remain free.
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
21 Dec 2013
Nicholas Best’s Five Days That Shocked The World: An Oral History of Europe at the End of World War Two to Spain.
Roger Crowley’s Constantinople: The Last Great Siege to Spain.
Cathy Glass’s Will You Love Me?: Lucy’s Story to Germany.
Stewart Lansley’s Londongrad to Poland.
