04 Sep 2012
Living Life the Essex Way, ghosted by Emma Donnan, remains in the hardback non-fiction list at no 4 with Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers at no 8.
01 Sep 2012
Chinese rights in Clare Mulley’s The Spy Who Loved to Beijing World Publishing
Polish rights in Ben McFarlane’s Holiday SOS to Pascal
Polish rights in Sam Pivnik’s Survivor to Proszynski
Simplified Chinese rights to Social Sciences Press for three Roger Crowley titles:
1453, Empires of the Sea, City of Fortune
01 Sep 2012
Congratulations to Daniel Tammet whose new book Thinking in Numbers, Radio 4’s Book of the Week, is no. 8 in the Sunday Times hardback bestseller lists this week.
22 Aug 2012
The Class of 41 a group biography of the last West Point peacetime graduating class by Anne Kazel-Wilcox and PJ Wilcox has been sold to University Press of New England.
18 Aug 2012
Living Life the Essex Way remains at no 3 in the hardback non-fiction lists.
14 Aug 2012
There have been several foreign rights deals recently including:
David Craig’s Great European Rip Off to Slovenia
Complex Chinese rights in Marina Chapman’s The Girl With No Name
Lithuanian rights in Neil McKenna’s Oscar Wilde
Polish rights in Linda Porter’s Mary Tudor
French rights in Casey Watson’s Crying for Help
14 Aug 2012
One World have bought journalist Bobby Friedman’s study of party political funding and will publish this autumn.
14 Aug 2012
Macmillan have bought the memoirs of Noreen Riols one of the last surviving females who served in SOE.
14 Aug 2012
Harper Collins have bought two further books in the Casey Watson fostering series. The latest book Little Prisoners remains in the top twenty paperback non-fiction list.
13 Aug 2012
Michael Jago’s life of the MI5 agent and novelist John Bingham: The Man Who Was Smiley has been bought by Biteback