News

  • Red One No 12

    23 Aug 2010

    Largely as a result of yesterday’s BBC Meet the Author feature, Kevin Ivison’s Red One was No 1 Amazon History and No 12 overall.

  • I Miss Mummy is No 2

    23 Aug 2010

    As well as being at no 3 in The Sunday Times bestseller list, I Miss Mummy is at no 2 in WHSmiths non-fiction bestseller chart.

  • New edition of Juliet Barker's Conquest

    18 Aug 2010

    Juliet Barker’s Conquest: The English Kingdom of France has had another paperback reprint of another 10,000 copies.

  • Agency Representation by Year

    18 Aug 2010

    I’m often asked how many authors I take on and sell each year. Here are the top 100 active authors – sold and still writing - broken down by when they first joined the agency. Inevitably there will be more writers in recent years as many books were one-offs and the authors no longer writing.

    Pre 1994 when new agency contact introduced – 8 1995 – 1 1997 – 2 1998 – 1 1999 – 4 2000 – 3 2001 – 8 2002 – 3 2003 – 6 2004 - 13 2005 – 4 2006 – 10 2007 - 17 2008 - 12 2009 – 6 2010 – 2

  • Red One is Amazon bestseller

    17 Aug 2010

    Kevin Ivison’s memoir of his time as a bomb disposal officer, Red One, has become an Amazon bestseller on the strength of some good reviews and a Mail on Sunday serial.

    1 in Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Warfare & Defence > Weapons & Equipment 1 in Books > History > Military History > Weapons & Warfare > Conventional 1 in Books > History > Countries & Regions > Asia > Middle East > Arabian Peninsula
  • Indian Superfood goes to No 1

    17 Aug 2010

    Gurpareet Bain’s Indian Superfood has gone to No. 1 in Indian Food (National and International Cookery) and No. 3 in Healthy Eating (Diets and Healthy Eating) on Amazon on the strength of this piece in the Sunday Times:

    http://gurpareetbains.co.uk/sundaytimesstyle.pdf

  • I Miss Mummy stays in bestseller list

    17 Aug 2010

    Cathy Glass’s fostering memoir I Miss Mummy which was number 2 last week remains in the non-fiction paperback list at number 3.

  • Two Little Brown Agency Books in Promotions

    05 Aug 2010

    Waterstone’s will be promoting the paperback edition of Lawrence James’s Aristocrats in their Summer Reading 3 for 2 promotion.

    Adrian Weale’s SS: A New HIstory will be promoted airside in WHSmiths Travel in the ‘2 for £20’ promotion

  • I Miss Mummy no 3

    03 Aug 2010

    Cathy Glass’s I Miss Mummy is at number 3 this week, selling 5,612 copies.

  • Novel fish and chip recipe

    03 Aug 2010

    Gurpareet Bain’s Indian Superfood has generated a lot of interest. His recipe for fish and chips is now running on Love Reading here: http://www.lovereading.co.uk