News
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Recent Film deals
16 Mar 2013
The documentary rights in Marina Chapman’s memoirs The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys sold to Blink Films for a two hour National Geographic programme in the autumn.
Rights for a 90 minute tv drama in Neil McKenna’s Fanny & Stella have been bought by Bentley Productions.
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Bye, Mam, I love you bought by John Blake
16 Mar 2013
Sonia Oatley’s poignant memoir about the murder of her daughter Bye, Mam, I love you, ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee, has been bought by John Blake.
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What if you don’t want marriage and kids?” sold to Blake
16 Mar 2013
John Blake has bought Helen Croydon’s What if you don’t want marriage and kids?” for publication later this year.
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The Spy Who Loved selected as one of Amazon’s Big Spring Books under biography .
16 Mar 2013
The US edition of Clare Mulley’s The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, to be published in June, has been selected as one of Amazon’s Big Spring Books under biography .
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The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham makes Heywood Hill best seller list
13 Mar 2013
Congratulations to Michael Jago whose The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham is no 5 in the Heywood Hill non-fiction best seller list.
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'Unravelled' trailer
11 Mar 2013
The trailer for Vikie Shanks’ Unravelled, produced by Maurice Smith, has now been released.
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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
