News
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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.
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St Martin's buys Company Confessions: The CIA, Secrecy and Memoir Writing
13 Apr 2013
St Martin’s Press have bought US rights in Christopher Moran’s Company Confessions: The CIA, Secrecy and Memoir Writing.
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Andrew Lownie calls for limited licenses
12 Apr 2013
“We also all need to look at limited licences — I suggest ten year licences as with translation — to allow greater control of rights at a time of rapid technological change. It is wrong to sign away rights, many not even known, forever, now that books never go out of print. Naturally, publishers and agents will be reluctant to do so arguing that they should reap the benefits of what they have sown, but ten years should be sufficient to recoup the investment made.”
The full Publishing Perspectives piece can be found here.
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Thistle publishes James Chambers
11 Apr 2013
Thistle Publishing has reissued two of James Chambers’ critically acclaimed biographies. Palmerston and Christopher Wren are now available worldwide in both ebook and paperback format.
‘A rollicking biography, weaving raunch with realpolitik, told with the bold swagger of Palmerston himself.’ Daily Telegraph
‘An excellent introduction to the great man’ Independent on Sunday
‘James Chambers exhibits a keen eye for the social as well as the political nuances of the day … He takes a scholarly and properly sceptical approach to the multifarious sources … best of all, he adopts an elegant, ironic literary style perfectly suited to its subject … the author has the knack of making complex diplomatic issues easily comprehensible … [he] superbly captures both the subtlety behind the bluster of this most magnificent of 19th-century prime ministers and what he calls his “infuriating but convincing air of jovial confidence”’ Andrew Roberts, Sunday Telegraph
‘Engaging biography … Chambers captures the puckish personality of the man and his aristocratic, irreverent, often louche milieu’ Sunday Times
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Kris Hollington interview
11 Apr 2013
Agency author Kris Hollington, whose latest bestseller Unthinkable is generating huge interest, is interviewed in this month’s edition of Words With Jam.
