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News

  • Foreign Rights sales

    26 Sep 2012

    A number of foreign rights deals on the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair:

    Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers to Japan Shed Simove’s spoof Fifty Shades of Gray to Holland Chinese (simplified characters) in Christian Wolmar’s Blood, Iron and Gold Cathy Glass’s Another Forgotten Child to Poland

  • St Martin's buy book on Rendlesham Forest UFO mystery

    26 Sep 2012

    North American rights in Nick Pope’s Rendezvous at Rendlesham have been bought by St Martin’s Press for publication next year. The book draws on the exclusive testimony of two witnesses , John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, to the best documented of all UFO sightings - that at a USAF base in Suffolk in 1980 .

  • Happy Mealtimes for Kids is no 6 Kindle/natural foods.

    26 Sep 2012

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose recent book from Harper Collins Happy Mealtimes for Kids is no 6 Kindle/natural foods.

  • Cathy Glass is no 2

    25 Sep 2012

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose latest fostering memoir Another Forgotten Child is no 2 in its first full week of publication.

  • New Cathy Glass straight in at no 5

    19 Sep 2012

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose latest fostering memoir Another Forgotten Child has gone straight in at no 5 in the bestseller list after a few days on sale.

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    15 Sep 2012

    Basque rights in Nessa Carey’s The Epigenetics Revolution to The University of the Basque Country Press

    Portuguese rights in John Jobling’s U2:The Goal is Soul to Editora Evora

    Portuguese rights in Roger Crowley’s Lords of the Navigation to Presenca

  • Agency author is no 9 in e-book best-seller chart

    14 Sep 2012

    Congratulations to David Long on making no 9 in top 20 e-books of week with his Little Book of London.

  • Angie's Way to Simon & Schuster

    10 Sep 2012

    After a spirited auction, in which Hodder was the under-bidder, Ian Millthorpe’s memoir of bringing up eight children after the death of his wife Angie, ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee, has been bought by Simon & Schuster.

  • 'Bosnia's million bones : solving the world's greatest forensic science puzzle sold to Palgrave

    10 Sep 2012

    Palgrave have bought Christian Jennings’ Bosnia’s million bones - solving the world’s greatest forensic science puzzle for publication next year.

  • Basic commission new book on Russian Revolution

    10 Sep 2012

    Basic have just bought world rights in a popular and revisionist single volume account of The Russian Revolution by acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin.