News
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
13 Jul 2013
Romanian rights in Simon Berthon’s Warlords
Czech rights in David Craig’s Would you buy that?
Hungarian rights in Roger Crowley’s Empires of the Sea
Chinese rights in David Day’s Antarctica
French rights in Noreen Riols’ The Secret Ministry of Ag and Fish
Italian rights to Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers
Polish rights in Casey Watson’s Too Hurt to Stay
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World War Two nurse's diary sold to Orion
13 Jul 2013
Mary Morris’s On Duty: The Diary of a Wartime Nurse, edited by Carol Acton, has been bought by Orion at auction for publication next year..
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Guy Bellamy extract
13 Jul 2013
St Christopher’s has run an extract from Guy Bellamy’s timeless classic The Secret Lemonade Drinker, recently reissued by Thistle Publishing.
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Exciting week for Thistle Publishing
12 Jul 2013
Thistle currently has two books in the Amazon top 100 bestseller list: The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade and Tennis and the Masai, and this week launches a new ebook from the always provocative Katie Hopkins.
Katie Hopkins: I’m only telling the truth so why am I the most hated woman in Britain?
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Rave review for Clare Mulley in Vogue
12 Jul 2013
This summer’s most spellbinding saga of espionage and adventure also happens to be true. Clare Mulley’s The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville (St. Martin’s) is a long-overdue biography of Britain’s first female special agent, an unsung hero of the Second World War whose exploits—or so rumor has it—inspired Ian Fleming’s original Bond girl, Vesper Lynd.
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US deal for Art Hunter : Searching for the World’s Missing Masterpieces
11 Jul 2013
US rights in Chris Marinello’s memoir of his time at the Art Loss Register Art Hunter : Searching for the World’s Missing Masterpieces have been bought by St Martin’s Press.
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Grazia reviews Paul Merrill
11 Jul 2013
Paul Merrill’s hilarious memoir of his time editing ZOO Magazine, A Polar Bear Ate My Head, is reviewed in this week’s Grazia magazine.
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'No Place to Call Home' trailer released
11 Jul 2013
The official book trailer for Katharine Quarmby’s No Place to Call Home has been released, and can be seen via the following link:
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World War Two SAS book sold to Mainstream
11 Jul 2013
Last Gentleman of the SAS: John Randall’s War 1939-45 by Mei Trow the story of the first Allied soldier through the gates of Bergen-Belsen has been bought by Mainstream for publication next spring. John Randall, now in his nineties, will promote.
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Three agency titles in top twenty paperback non-fiction list
09 Jul 2013
Congratulations to the following who’ve made the paperback non-fiction list this week:
Casey Watson for Breaking the Silence:Two Little Boys, Lost and Unloved at no 9
Cathy Glass for Please Don’t Take My Baby at no 11
Emily Mackenzie for Runaway:Wild Child, Working Girl, Survivor at no 16.
