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  • Spycatcher book optioned

    13 Jan 2025

    Impossible Factual have optioned Tim Tate’s To Catch A Spy: Margaret Thatcher, Peter Wright & the Spycatcher Affair: The Secret History of A Very English Espionage Farce

  • Blissful Baby Routines to Ebury

    13 Jan 2025

    World English rights in Lisa Clegg’s Blissful Baby Routines have been sold to her regular publisher Ebury.

  • The Floating Brothel optioned.

    13 Jan 2025

    Light Bulb Moment Productions have optioned Sian Rees’s The Floating Brothel.

  • Recent Foreign Rights

    07 Jan 2025

    Romanian right for Roger Crowley’s Empires of the Sea.

    Turkish rights for Sir Steven Runciman’s A History of the Crusades vol 1-3.

    Spanish and Italian rights for Steve Tibble’s Crusader Criminals

  • Born on a Blue Day finalist in script competition

    07 Jan 2025

    Gary Parker’s film script for Daniel Tammett’s Born on a Blue Day is a finalist in the 2024 Page Turner 100 competition

  • Book on children's palliative care to Reach.

    11 Dec 2024

    Reach have bought World English rights in The Wrong Order of Things: Children are not supposed to die, Michelle Hills’ memoir of palliative care for children.

  • Aviation award to Sally Smith

    10 Dec 2024

    Congratulations to Sally Smith who has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Women in Aviation, Aerospace and Space Committee award by the Royal Aeronautical Society.

  • Charles Bronson memoir to Reach

    10 Dec 2024

    Reach have bought World English rights in Inside Out, Irene Dunroe’s account of her love affair with the prisoner Charles Bronson which is ghosted by Julie Shaw.

  • Books of the Year

    10 Dec 2024

    Congratulations to the following authors whose books made ‘Books of the Year’:

    Roger Crowley’s Spice: The sixteenth century contest that shaped the modern world in the Times.

    Mary Hollingsworth’s Catherine de Medici: The Life & Times of the Serpent Queen in the Daily Telegraph’s ‘The best biographies and memoirs of 2024’, and the Financial Times’s ‘The best 10 history books of the year’.

    Roger Morris’s Death of a Princess in Aspects of HIstory . Daniel Tammet’s Nine Minds in the Sydney Morning Herald. and a Watestones ‘Best Popular Science Book of 2024’

    Richard Wallace’s The King’s Loot in the Daily Mail.

  • Recent Foreign Rights

    28 Nov 2024

    Romanian rights in Kitty’s Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Urs Brunner, Julia Schrammel and Nigel Jones.

    Spanish rights in Joanna Moncrieff’s Chemically Unbalanced.

    Italian rights in Paul Morland’s No One Left.

    Romanian rights in Daniel Tammet’s Nine Lives.