22 Jul 2011
Broken Angel , the third book in Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington’s Child Protection series, following on from the bestsellers Baby X and Little Victim has been sold to Simon & Schuster for publication next year.
22 Jul 2011
Gibson Square Press have bought The Clegg Coup, the story of Nick Clegg’s rise to power and the Liberal revival, by distinguished journalist and Liberal Party insider Jasper Gerard for publication later this year.
22 Jul 2011
George Morley at Macmillan has bought UK rights in Clare Mulley’s The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville , one of the most daring, successful, and most loved of all the Allies’ female special agents in the Second World War, for publication next year.
13 Jul 2011
Alan Baker’s unpublished thriller Dyatlov Pass has been optioned for film by director Simon Fellows and screenwriter/producer Andy Briggs. The novel is based on a true story, the Dyatlov Pass incident , in which nine ski-hikers died under bizarre and mysterious circumstances in the Ural Mountains in 1959.
Fellows has a number of feature films to his credit, including Malice in Wonderland (2009), a modern retelling of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale. Andy Briggs has written the YA series of novels HERO.COM and VILLAIN.NET, and has recently published the first of a new series of Tarzan novels with Faber & Faber.
A screen treatment of the story has been developed, funding with 2B Pictures is being negotiated and production may start as early as summer 2012.
13 Jul 2011
Alan Baker’s unpublished thriller Dyatlov Pass has been optioned for film by director Simon Fellows and screenwriter/producer Andy Briggs. The novel is based on a true story, the Dyatlov Pass incident , in which nine ski-hikers died under bizarre and mysterious circumstances in the Ural Mountains in 1959.
Fellows has a number of feature films to his credit, including Malice in Wonderland (2009), a modern retelling of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale. Andy Briggs has written the YA series of novels HERO.COM and VILLAIN.NET, and has recently published the first of a new series of Tarzan novels with Faber & Faber.
A screen treatment of the story has been developed, funding with 2B Pictures is being negotiated and production may start as early as summer 2012.
11 Jul 2011
Kate Moore at Osprey has bought two books from Special Forces veteran Robert Stirling - Special Forces: The Ultimate Guide To Combat and Special Forces Sniper Skills - both to be published next year.
11 Jul 2011
UK rights in Nick Best’s Five Days That Shook The World: An Oral History of Europe at the End of World War Two , the story of five momentous days at the end of the Second World War, from the execution of Mussolini and the surrender in Italy to the announcement on German radio that the Führer had fallen at his post, fighting to his last breath against Bolshevism, have been bought by Osprey. They and St Martin’s Press will be publishing in spring 2012.
11 Jul 2011
Random House have bought David Long’s Murderous London , which pinpoints the exact locations of scores of the bloodiest, most intriguing and sinister murders in London’s last 100 years, for publication next year.
11 Jul 2011
US rights in David Day’s biography of Antarctica have been sold to Oxford University Press - Random House Australia already control UK & Commonwealth rights - for publication next year.
11 Jul 2011
Cathy Glass’s latest fostering memoir The NIght the Angels Came , the story of a father’s selfless love and devotion for his son and a small boy’s belief that when the time comes the angels will take his daddy to be in heaven with his mummy, has been bought by her regular publisher Harper Collins for publication this autumn.