News
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US rights in biography of Antarctica sold to OUP
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.
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New Cathy Glass memoir to Harper Collins
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.
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A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England commissioned by Ebury
11 Jul 2011
Andrew Goodfellow at Ebury has bought world rights in A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England, a gazetteer and bedside book featuring the surviving places, objects and stories of Tudor England, from Suzannah Lipscomb currently a lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia.
A Visitor’s Companion will provide both a practical handbook to the 50 best and most interesting Tudor houses, palaces, castles and sites across England, and a colourful, fascinating introduction to the key characters, stories and events of the Tudor age. Ebury publish next year.
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The Plantagenets to Constable
11 Jul 2011
UK rights in Desmond Seward’s history of the Plantagenets, our longest reigning dynasty and on a par with the Habsburgs and Bourbons as among the most important in European history, have been sold to his regular publisher Constable for publication in 2013.
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US rights in The Brontes sold
06 Jul 2011
Pegasus have bought US rights in Juliet Barker’s revised edition of her classic group bigraphy, The Brontes, recently published by Little Brown in the UK.
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Drug dealer memoirs sold to Globe Pequot
05 Jul 2011
Mule, the memoirs of former drug smuggler turned DEA confidential informant Chris Heifner and ghosted by journalist Adam Slutsky have been sold to US publisher Globe Pequot for publication next year.
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The Epigenetics Revolution to Columbia
03 Jul 2011
US rights in Nessa Carey’s popular science book The Epigenetics Revolution have been sold to Columbia University Press with Palgrave the underbider. Icon publish in the UK in September.
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Daniel Tammet's recent TED lecture on perception
24 Jun 2011
Danniel Tammet’s recent TED lecture on how he sees numbers, language and literature can be found at
http://www.ted.com/talks/danieltammetdifferentwaysof_knowing.html
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Rasputin biography sold to Wiley
22 Jun 2011
US rights in Joe Fuhrmann’s new life of Rasputin ,based on fresh Russian archives, have been sold to Wiley for publication in autumn 2012.
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SS: A New History to Penguin(US)
22 Jun 2011
Adrian Weale’s history of the SS, described by MIchael Burleigh as “an extremely important book which I recommend most highly”, recently published in the UK by Little Brown, has been bought by Penguin(US) for publication in autumn 2012.
