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News

  • Twentieth century history sold to Basic

    01 Aug 2024

    Basic Books and John Murray have bought World English rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Long Retreat: A History of Europe and the World Since 1900

  • Pope's Chef to History Press

    01 Aug 2024

    The History Press have bought World English rights in The Pope’s Chef, Mary Hollingsworth’s biography of the Renaissance chef Bartolomeo Scappi .

  • Recent translation sales

    16 Jul 2024

    Thai rights in Roger Crowley’s Constantinople: The Last Great Siege.

    Lithuanian rights in Mary Hollingsworth’s Catherine de Medici: The Life & Times of the Serpent Queen

    Hungarian rights in Daniel Tammet’s Nine Minds.

  • The King's Loot serialised in Mail on Sunday

    14 Jul 2024

    Richard Wallace’s book The King’s Loot is serialised in Mail on Sunday today https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-13631239/Wallis-Simpson-jewel-robbery-clues-Duchess-Sussex-theft-jewellery-revealed.html

  • The Mountbattens voted top biography

    02 Jul 2024

    Andrew Lownie’s The Mountbattens, was 18th in BookAuthority’s Best British Biography eBooks of All Time: https://bookauthority.org/books/best-british-biography-ebooks?t=1163fw&s=award&book=1788702565 BookAuthority collects and ranks the best books in the world, Agency authors Lawrence James for Wellington and Robert Edwards for Henry Cooper were also recognised.

  • Edith Cavell biography sold to Yale

    25 Jun 2024

    Yale have bought World English rights in Helen Fry’s biography of the First World War spy Edith Cavell.

  • Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson agency merges with the agency

    24 Jun 2024

    I am delighted that Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson’s eponymous agency, on Christopher’s retirement, has now merged with the agency and look forward to getting to know his authors over the coming weeks.

  • Gulbenkian biography optioned

    16 Jun 2024

    Jonathan Conlin’s Mr Five Per Cent: : the many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world’s richest man.has been optioned by DBA Ideas for Films.

  • World War Two intelligence book optioned

    16 Jun 2024

    Helen Fry’s The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II has been optioned by Dark Ways.

  • Marilyn Monroe book optioned

    16 Jun 2024

    Bombshell, an account of the death of Marilyn Monroe, by Mike Rothmiller with Douglas Thompson has been optioned by Anonymous Content.