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Mistresses is Book of the Year

30 Nov 2020

Linda Porter’s Mistresses: sex and scandal at the court of Charles II has been picked by Tracy Borman as one of her ‘Books of the Year’ in BBC History Magazine describing it as ‘a set of impeccably researched pen portraits of the seven women who dominated the king’s life…an engaging and enlightening read.’

History of North to Collins

24 Nov 2020

Harper North have bought World English rights in Brian Groom’s Northerners: A History. From the Ice Ages to the 21st Century

Mr Five Per Cent: wins Wadsworth Prize for Business History.

24 Nov 2020

Congratulations to Jonathan Conlin whose Mr Five Per Cent: : the many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world’s richest man. has won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History.

Viking biography to Birlinn

09 Nov 2020

Birlinn have bought World English rights in Desmond Seward’s biography of Olav Haraldsson (995-1030), sometimes called the viking saint or ‘Norges evige Konge’ (Norway’s eternal King).

Recent Foreign Rights sales

02 Nov 2020

Bulgarian rights in Roger Crowley’s Constantinople: The Last Great Siege..

Uzbek rights in Jeremy Dronfield’s The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz.

Romanian rights in Tony Spawforth’s The Story of Greece and Rome.

Cathy Glass back in top ten

29 Oct 2020

Cathy Glass’s A Terrible Secret is back in the Sunday Times paperback non-fiction chart at #10

Jail Bird optioned

28 Oct 2020

Drama rights in Tracy Mackness’s Jail Bird: The Life and Crimes Of An Essex Bad Girl have been sold to Moonage.

New Cathy Glass to Harper Collins

28 Oct 2020

Harper Collins have bought world rights in Cathy Glass’s latest fostering memoir A Monster For A Father.

Quantick’s Quite Difficult Quiz Book to Constable

26 Oct 2020

Constable have bought world rights in David Quantick’s Quite Difficult Quiz Book .

Royal love letters to Quercus

26 Oct 2020

Quercus have bought world rights in Love Letters of Kings and Queens by Dan Smith.