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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.
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Three Daniel Tammet books in French top ten
18 Jan 2013
Daniel Tammet currently has an astonishing three books in Amazon France’s top ten bestsellers. In fact, if it weren’t for the Fifty Shades phenomenon, he would currently be holding positions 1, 2 and 4!
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'What Editors Want' generates interest
16 Jan 2013
The agency’s annual series of articles asking ‘What Editors Want’ has generated a lot of media interest this year, including the following…
The articles are also generating a lot of discussion and debate on the agency website. They can be found here:
What Fiction Editors Want 2013
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Another Forgotten Child is no 14
15 Jan 2013
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose latest fostering memoir remains in the top twenty paperback non-fiction list.
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Launch of 'Afghanistan Revealed'
13 Jan 2013
Last night saw the launch of Afghanistan Revealed at the Royal United Services Institute, with attendees including General Sir David Richards, Chief of the Defence Staff, and Sandy Gaul.
The book features a chapter from agency author Bijan Omrani. Other contributors include Ahmed Rashid and the BBC’s David Loyn. The e-book has been published to raise money for the Afghanistan Appeal Fund, which raises money to build schools in Afghanistan.
