News
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Lots of interest in Hear My Cry
05 Nov 2013
Diana Kader’s interview about the experiences which form the basis of her book Hear My Cry on MBC has generated huge press coverage.
Interview (starts about halfway through)
Coverage:
http://almashhad-alyemeni.com/news32400.html
http://alainonline.net/news_details.php?sid=9847
http://yemen-press.com/news23665.html
http://www.albaldnews.com/news5426.html
http://aden-post.com/news/10816/
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Two agency titles in top 10 non-fiction paperback list
05 Nov 2013
Congratulations to Casey Watson whose Last Kiss for Mummy is no 3 and Cathy Glass whose Will You Love Me? is no 7 is this week’s paperback non-fiction bestseller list.
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More coverage for Jacky Donovan
05 Nov 2013
There’s more coverage for Jacky Donovan’s sensational memoir Instant Whips and Dream Toppings, including this in the Southampton Echo, and the following in Bella.
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Criminal London nominated for award
04 Nov 2013
Criminal London: A sightseer’s guide to the capital of crime by Kris and Nina Hollington has been nominated for the British Travel Press Awards.
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Two US sales to Skyhorse
03 Nov 2013
Skyhorse Publishing have bought US rights in Adrian Gilbert’s Voices of the Legion: The French Foreign Legion in its Own Words and David Long’s Bizarre London.
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
03 Nov 2013
French rights in Coralie Colmez and Leila Schneps’s Maths on Trial.
Brazilian rights in Peter Padfield’s Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of World War Two - A Secret History.
Portuguese rights in Adrian Weale’s history of the SS.
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Square Peg buys The Book of 365
02 Nov 2013
Square Peg have bought world rights in Hugh Brazier and Jan McCann’s The Book of 365 a trivia book which consists of 365 entries, using every number from 1 to 365 as a starting point for a brief exploration of the world around us, taking in a broad sweep of science, history, art, literature, medicine, and popular culture.
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Icon buy biography of 19th century courtesan
02 Nov 2013
Icon have bought UK rights in Catherine Hewitt’s Valtesse de la Bigne: A Courtesan’s Conquest of Paris , which tells the incredible tale of the nineteenth century courtesan who clawed her way up from humble, impoverished origins to become one of the most sought-after and glamorous women in Paris.
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UK deal for Junk: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
02 Nov 2013
Icon, who published Nessa Carey’s first book The Epigenetics Revolution, have bought UK rights in Junk: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome which explores the exciting new developments in our understanding of human DNA.
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Partying with the ghost-writers
01 Nov 2013
The agency’s traditional Halloween party for its ghostwriters was picked up by the Evening Standard:
“To an olde worlde townhouse in Westminster for a Halloween party with a twist. Literary agent Andrew Lownie asked the shadowy world of ghost-writers to convene for drinks at his offices in Great Smith Street. Among the attendees were Andrew Crofts and Lynne Barrett-Lee. “It was a strange party,” said one guest. “No-one knew who was working with whom, as ghostwriters have to be discreet about their clients.” Once collected, it was observed they were a young, attractive bunch inclined to wear black.”
