14 Jun 2013
Angus Konstam has been contracted to write the latest Haynes manual – a detailed study of the German battleship KMS Bismarck – the warship that sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood in 1941, and which then became the quarry in one of the most famous naval pursuits of the Second World War. The book is due to be published in the summer of 2014.
13 Jun 2013
There have been a succession of foreign rights deals for Marina Chapman’s memoir of being brought up by monkeys in the Columbian jungle, The Girl With No Name, including Spain, Iceland, Russia and Poland.
13 Jun 2013
Pegasus have bought US rights in Desmond Seward’s revised classic life of Richard III.
13 Jun 2013
David Day’s Antarctica is one of ten books selected as Amazon’s history books of the month.
13 Jun 2013
Harper Collins have signed a three-book deal with new writer Julie Shaw - working with ghost Lynne Barrett-Lee - to tell the story of her working-class Northern family , The Hudsons, over the last hundred years.
The first book The Warrior is set on the notorious Canterbury Estate in Bradford during the 1970s and will be followed by The Boxer, covering the 1940’s and 1950’s, and The Tucker Girls set in the 1950’s and early 1960’s,
13 Jun 2013
Harper Collins have bought a new book from Cathy Glass. In About Writing And How to Publish, the best-selling author, drawing on thirty years experience, shares practical advice on writing and how to publish .
13 Jun 2013
Orion have bought a third memoir in Malcolm Castle’s fire-fighting series and will publish next year.
13 Jun 2013
Congratulations to Casey Watson whose Little Prisoners has gone straight in at no 14 on the New York Times non-fiction e book best seller list.
Another agency title - Damaged by Cathy Glass - was no 1 a few months ago.
13 Jun 2013
Black Inc Books have bought ANZ rights in Many Smith’s Cabin Fever - an exhilarating, and often hilarious, account of what it’s like to be a stewardess in the modern world of air travel.
11 Jun 2013
Paul Merrill has been interviewed by Female First, on the subject of his hilarious new parenting guide Muddle Your Way Through Fatherhood.
What can you tell us about Muddle Your Way Through Fatherhood?
“It’s the antidote to the regular parenting books that give you lots of worth guff about all the serious bits about having kids. This is all the stuff that the so-called real guide books don’t dare tell you. It’s played for laughs, but there are some useful nuggets in there too.”