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A powerful review for Mummy's Little Helper...
14 Apr 2013
"Few times in my life I have had a book call out to me to purchase it, but that day as I was getting settled in Morrison’s mobility scooter with my young daughter by my side, I knew I had to read it. I have often wondered about the care system in the UK and what happens to people who enter it. This book was about a little girl who had to go into foster care when her mother collapsed whilst out shopping. At parts I felt like the first person narration was trying too hard to create a good impression about the foster parent (I hadn’t realised then that this was a true story; you see, I leafed through the beginning and just went on reading, unable to put the book down.) Soon I was immersed in the personal stories of the main characters: the foster carer, the little girl and her ailing mother. There is a mystery which slowly unravels and the end is cathartic. In some strange way, this book has opened up a spy hole into the world of a child who is also a carer for a sick parent. A child who may not show it openly but suffers nevertheless in their effort to make sense of the world around them and keep it from crumbling to pieces. I don’t want to say too much and spoil it for you, but this is a book that is worth reading if you are not afraid of shedding a tear or two. And if you are a parent yourself, then this book might be an eye opener." Mummy’s Little Helper
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Andrew Lownie stays on top at Publishers Marketplace
14 Apr 2013
Andrew Lownie continues to top the agent lists on Publishers Marketplace:
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'Queen Victoria' riding high
14 Apr 2013
David Haviland’s myth-busting guide to history Why Was Queen Victoria Such A Prude? has now been the number one book in all its categories for a month and a half.
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Recent Film options
14 Apr 2013
Simon Berthon’s Warlords has been optioned by Fox
Sean Longden’s Blitz Kids has been optioned by Peachtree
Daniel Tammet’s Born on a Blue Day has been optioned by Weidemann & Berg.
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Kirk Norcross serialised in The Sun
14 Apr 2013
Kirk Norcross’s memoir Essex Boy, published by Sidgwick & Jackson, on April 25th is serialised in the Sun today and tomorrow.
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WH Smith bestsellers
13 Apr 2013
Here is Susan Ottaway celebrating being No.3 in the WH Smith bestseller list. Clare Mulley is No.1 in the same list with The Spy Who Loved.
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
13 Apr 2013
Hebrew rights in Nicholas Best’s Five Days That Shocked The World: An Oral History of Europe at the End of World War Two to Keter Books in Israel.
Japanese rights in Marina Chapman’s The Girl with no Name to Komakusa Publishing.
Chinese rights in Francesca Gould and David Haviland’s Self-Harming Parrots and Exploding Toads and Why You Shouldn’t Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body to Shanghai Joint Publishing Company .
Polish language rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Greatest Heist in History: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks. to Jagiellonian University Press in Krakow.
German rights in Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers to Henser.
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Book six in Kit Marlowe series to Severn House
13 Apr 2013
Severn House have bought Traitor’s Storm, the latest in M.J. Trow’s historical crime series featuring Christopher Marlowe.
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Hugh Pym's Inside the Banking Crisis to Bloomsbury
13 Apr 2013
Inside the Banking Crisis by Hugh Pym, Chief Economics Correspondent for BBC News, the astonishing story of how Britain’s banking system nearly crashed has been bought by Bloomsbury for publication next year.
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Little Drifters sold to Harper Collins
13 Apr 2013
Kathleen O’Shea’s memoir Little Drifters ghosted by Katy Weitz has been bought by Harper Collins.
