News
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
10 Mar 2013
Spanish rights in Robert Hutchinson’s Spanish Armada
Danish rights in Roger Crowley’s Constantinople and Charlotte Zeepvat’s The Camera and the Tsars: A Romanov Family Album
Spanish rights in Daniel Tammet’s Embracing the Wide Sky and Thinking in Numbers
Japanese rights in Shed Simove’s blank book What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex
Polish rights in Casey Watson’s fostering memoir Little Prisoners
German rights in Julian Maclaren-Ross’s novel Of Love & Hunger
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Two book deal for David Long with One World
10 Mar 2013
One World have commissioned two London titles from David Long. London Lives looks at fifty individuals whose time in London transformed the city or significantly coloured their own lives whilst A History of London in 100 Places traces the story of London through 2,000 years of buildings, monuments, courtyards and corners.
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New Cathy Glass to Harper Collins
10 Mar 2013
Harper Collins have bought the latest of best-selling author Cathy Glass’s fostering memoirs. Will You Love Me?: Lucy’s Story is the story of Cathy’s adopted daughter, Lucy, who arrived as a foster child and stayed for good. Collins publish in September.
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Head of Zeus buys An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
10 Mar 2013
No Body of Evidence: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Marie EAtwell has been bought by Head of Zeus
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Mum's Way is no 7 on Sunday Times list
10 Mar 2013
Appropriately on Mother’s Day Ian Millthorpe and Lynne Barrett-Lee’s Mum’s Way is no 7 on the Sunday Times list.
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Mum’s Way is Sunday Times No. 8 this week
06 Mar 2013
Congratulations to Ian Millthorpe and Lynne Barrett-Lee whose Mum’s Way is a Sunday Times No. 8 this week for paperback non-fiction.
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Ghostly Reflections
06 Mar 2013
Fifteen of the agency’s ghost writers have shared some tips on how they work with their subjects and what they believe is needed to ghost a successful book…
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Pan Macmillan buy Spencer Matthews memoirs
06 Mar 2013
Pan Macmillan have bought the autobiography of Spencer Matthews, star of E4’s hit show Made in Chelsea provisionally called Confessions of a Lady Thriller. The book is scheduled for publication in autumn 2013.
One of the original MIC cast members, Spencer has always been at the heart of the show and behind the most controversial story lines. Now for the first time he’s telling all, describing what it was like to grow up the privileged heir to glamorous Eden Rock and the impact his brother’s tragic death had on him, as well as writing with astonishing frankness about his love life, and revealing the truth behind some of the most sensational headlines on MIC. Offering a rare glimpse into the real Chelsea lifestyle, he also gives witty advice on love – from how to deal with cads to what men are really thinking.
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Kris Hollington and Officer A play on Radio 4
04 Mar 2013
Kris Hollington and his co-author ‘Officer A’ (The Crime Factory) acted as story consultants for Noble Cause Corruption, a controversial new play for BBC Radio 4, due to be broadcast on Tuesday 5 March at 14:15. It will also be available on iPlayer for the following week. They’ve promised us a tough, true to life listen…
A trailer can be heard here:
“Noble Cause Corruption is authentic and an original police drama. Serving and ex police officers were consulted during its making. DI Maxine Boyd is a newly promoted police detective but she is unprepared for life in CID. Following the apparent suicide of a fellow officer in her first week she begins to uncover the true nature of this overstressed and overstretched department. Could it be that officers routinely take the law into their own hands in order to get the job done? Soon she is tested to the limit as she realises how far she has to go to remain loyal to her CID team.”
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Good review for The Cost of Inequality
03 Mar 2013
Stewart Lansley’s The Cost of Inequality receives a good review here:
“Anybody who is concerned about the gap between top and bottom incomes in our society will enjoy reading Stewart Lansley’s The Cost of Inequality: Why Economic Equality is Essential for Recovery. The book does a good job of joining the dots between different pre-crisis trends – the divergence of incomes and the ‘disappearing middle’ in the jobs market, the growing debt burden as people borrowed to consume as well as buy houses, the housing bubble itself, banking deregulation, the worship of shareholder value, mega-bonuses… an excellent birds-eye view of the malign consequences of the financial sector-driven, unsustainable increase in inequality, and of the damage that has caused the US and UK economies.”
