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  • Book on Bismarck to Haynes

    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.

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales for The Girl With No Name

    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.

  • Desmond Seward's Richard III to Pegasus

    13 Jun 2013

    Pegasus have bought US rights in Desmond Seward’s revised classic life of Richard III.

  • Antarctica is History Book Of The Month

    13 Jun 2013

    David Day’s Antarctica is one of ten books selected as Amazon’s history books of the month.

    Best Books of the Month

  • Collins buy trilogy The Canterbury Warriors

    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,

  • New Cathy Glass to Harper Collins

    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 .

  • What the Blazes? to Orion

    13 Jun 2013

    Orion have bought a third memoir in Malcolm Castle’s fire-fighting series and will publish next year.

  • Little Prisoners no 14 on New York Times e book best seller list

    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.

  • Cabin Fever sold in Australia

    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.

  • Paul Merrill interview

    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.”

    Female First