News

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Christopher Wren

    Palmerston

    ‘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

  • 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.

    Words With Jam

  • Amazon promotion for The Great Railway Revolution

    11 Apr 2013

    Christian Wolmar’s The Great Railway Revolution is currently being promoted in the 100 Books Under £2.99 promotion, and is riding high in the charts.

    The Great Railway Revolution

  • Please Don't Take My Baby and I Miss Mummy bundle now available

    11 Apr 2013

    Two new E book bundles of Cathy Glass’s books are now available for pre-order on Amazon. Both will be released alongside her new book on 25 April .

    Below are short forms of the links to the pages:

    http://amzn.to/16AYlDo http://amzn.to/10ycRZL

  • Sunday Mirror page for Unthinkable

    10 Apr 2013

    A nice piece in the Sunday Mirror on Kris Hollington’s Unthinkable currently in the best seller lists

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britain-facing-rape-gang-epidemic-1815558

  • Marina Chapman is bestseller

    10 Apr 2013

    Marina Chapman’s The Girl With No Name is currently at number six in the overall Amazon bestseller chart, and number two in ‘Movers and Shakers’.

    The Girl With No Name

  • Three agency books in top fifteen...

    09 Apr 2013

    Congratulations to the following agency authors for making the top fifteen non-fiction paperback list this week:

    Kris Hollington for Unthinkable:The Shocking Scandal of Britain’s Trafficked Children at no 14

    Casey Watson for Mummy’s Little Helper: The heart rending true story of a young girl secretly caring for her severely disabled mother at no 11

    Susan Ottaway for Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WW2 Special Agents at no 7

  • London Book Fair

    09 Apr 2013

    The agency is gearing up for the London Book Fair.

    Andrew is profiled here .

    And there are some author tips from Andrew and David on Novelicious.