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  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    17 Mar 2012

    There have been a succession of foreign rights deals in the weeks before the London Book Fair including:

    Sam Pivnik’s Holocaust memoir Survivor to Holland, Italy, France & in Catalan.

    Stewart Lansley’s business book The Cost of Inequality to Korea and China.

    Nicholas Best’s Five Days That Shocked the World to Italy and Poland.

    Barbara Stcherbatcheff’s memoir City Girl to Poland.

    Marina Chapman’s The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys to Holland, Italy and Germany.

    Adrian Weale’s The SS: A New History to Sweden following deals with Italy, Poland and Spain.

    Cathy Class’s Run Mummy, Run! to Poland.

  • John Bradley remains a no 1

    14 Mar 2012

    John Bradley’s book on the Arab Spring continues to do well especially on Amazon:

    • #1 in Books > History > Political History > Revolutions & Coups • #1 in Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Multicultural Studies > Islamic Studies • #2 in Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Government & Politics > Countries & Regions > Middle East

    One of the most authoritative commentators on the Middle East, his latest interview for The Middle East Report can be found at

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7WEB_cu4oQ&list=UUyehrYZ5104Yr4krrldtLig&index=3&feature=plcp

  • The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers serialised in Mail on Sunday

    11 Mar 2012

    Congratulations to Angela Patrick and Lynne Barrett-Lee whose The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers is serialised in today’s Mail on Sunday.

  • Blitz Kids serialised in the Daily Mail today.

    10 Mar 2012

    Congratulations to Sean Longden whose book on children during the Second World War Blitz Kids is serialised in the Daily Mail today.

  • Andrew Lownie is the top deal maker in UK non-fiction according to Publishers Marketplace

    10 Mar 2012

    According to Publishers Marketplace Andrew Lownie is the top deal maker in UK non-fiction

    He has had 16 announced deals in this category in the last 12 months | 3 in the last 6 months | 71 overall | 10 six-figure+ deals

    The agent behind him has had 8 deals in this category in the last 12 months.

  • Hurting Too Much is no 6

    08 Mar 2012

    Congratulations to Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington whose Hurting Too Much:Shocking Stories from the Frontline of Child Protection is#6 The Sunday Times, #6 The Guardian, #6 Live Magazine and #7 The Bookseller PB Non-Fiction chart this week.

  • Crying for Help remains in top twenty

    06 Mar 2012

    Congratulations to Casey Watson whose Crying for Help is no 18 this week.

  • US rights in Operation Damocles sold

    05 Mar 2012

    Pegasus have bought US rights in Roger Howard’s Operation Damocles, the forgotten story of the former Nazi scientists who were recruited by Egypt in the 1950s and ‘60s to develop a long-range missile capable of striking Israel. They publish later this year.

  • Two Agency Titles in Top Twenty

    28 Feb 2012

    Congratulations to Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington whose Hurting Too Much:Shocking Stories from the Frontline of Child Protection is no 5 and Casey Watson whose Crying for Help: The Shocking True Story of a Damaged Girl with a Dark Past is no 14 in the non-fiction paperback list this week.

  • The power of radio to affect chart position

    27 Feb 2012

    In an interesting shift, an Irish radio interview has led to an ebook edition of a book spiking on Amazon’s bestseller lists. Constable author, Tim Newark, whose book, The Fighting Irish was the subject of a Pat Kenny interview Wednesday 22nd February. By the end of the day the book had climbed to the top of the Kindle Irish History bestseller charts and had spiked in the paperback Irish History Bestseller charts. It remains at #5 on the Kindle chart and #88 on the print bestseller charts a day later. It’s an example of how the immediacy of availability can move units and drive sales for publishers.