News
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'Thinking in Numbers' enters top ten in France
23 Jan 2013
Daniel Tammet continues to enjoy success in France, where L’éternité Dans Une Heure (‘Thinking in Numbers’) has just entered the Livres Hebdo non-fiction bestseller list at number 9, after just 3 days of sales. As a result, the publishers have already ordered a reprint.
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Kirk Norcross memoir sold to Pan Macmillan
22 Jan 2013
Pan Macmillan have bought the autobiography of ‘The Only Way is Essex’ star Kirk Norcross, Essex Boy: My Story , to be published in April 2013.
One of the original TOWIE cast members, Kirk is portrayed as the good-looking rich kid, splashing out thousands on bottles of champagne and dating glamorous women like Amy Childs and Lauren Pope. But there’s a lot more to Kirk and the reality is that the first 18 years of his life tell a very different story – one he is only now ready to reveal. A childhood marred by poverty as Kirk moved between a hostel and a council house on one of Essex’s toughest estates, left him suffering from panic attacks and crippling self-doubt. Reconciling with his dad, by now a millionaire, thrust him into a very different world – one with its own set of challenges. Writing with complete honesty about the two sides of his Essex life, Kirk talks about his rise to fame on Lime Pictures & ITV2’s hit show TOWIE, his time in the Celebrity Big Brother house, his much-followed romances and who his real friends are.
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David Day's Antarctica Times Book of the Week
21 Jan 2013
Congratulations to David Day whose Antarctica: A Biography was Times Book of the Week.
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Fanny & Stella Sunday Times lead review
20 Jan 2013
Congratulations to Neil McKenna whose Fanny and Stella is lead review today in the Sunday Times. Dominic Sandbrook wrote :
This rollicking account of the trial of two middle-class cross-dressers unveils one of the most extraordinary legal dramas of the Victorian age… this rich and absorbing book.. McKenna has done a tremendous job of re-creating Victorian London’s gay subculture, weaving newspaper reports, police documents and contemporary diaries into a jolly and rollicking narrative… Fanny and Stella is a cracking read.
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Agency author's book serialised in Mail on Sunday
20 Jan 2013
Tina Renton’s You Can’t Hide: How I Brought My Rapist Stepfather to Justice ghosted by agency author Ruth Kelly finished its two week serialisation in the Mail on Sunday today.
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John Bradley gives lecture at The Athenaeum
20 Jan 2013
John Bradley recently gave a lecture at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on the subject “Debunking Five Myths About the Arab Spring”. The full lecture can be seen here:
Debunking Five Myths About the Arab Spring
John Bradley is the author of Behind the Veil of Vice: The Business and Culture of Sex in the Middle East (2010) and Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution (2008).
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
19 Jan 2013
Turkish rights in Nicholas Best’s Five Days That Shocked The World: An Oral History of Europe at the End of World War Two.
Korean rights in Christian Wolmar’s railway history Blood, Iron and Gold
Danish rights in Charlotte Zeepvat’s The Camera and the Tsars: A Romanov Family Album
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US deal for Jon Conlin's Tales of Two Cities
18 Jan 2013
Jonathan Conlin’s Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City , to be published by Atlantic in June, has been bought by Counterpoint. for a Fall 2013 release.
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Vet blog starts
18 Jan 2013
Anna Barrington, whose vet memoir Cows, coffee and cling-film, is currently on submission has begun to blog at
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Cathy Glass's Damaged is no 23 in US lists this week
18 Jan 2013
Cathy Glass’s Damaged continues its long reign in the New York Times e book best seller lists - this week at no 23.
