News
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Crime Squad in the Standard
13 Jul 2016
Mike Pannett’s sensational new memoir Crime Squad: Life And Death On London’s Front Line was serialised in the Evening Standard this week. The book has just been published by Thistle Books.
London gangster jailed for Pc death ‘may have killed four others’
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Holocaust book to Chicago Review Press
06 Jul 2016
Chicago Review Press have bought North American rights in Jeremy Dronfield’s The Stone Crusher: The True Story of the Kleinmann Family’s Fight for Survival in the Holocaust
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History of Antarctica to OUP
06 Jul 2016
David Day has been commissioned to write a history of Antarctica for an Oxford University Press series.
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Rebel Courts to Hurst
06 Jul 2016
World rights in Frank Ledwidge’s book Rebel Courts have been bought by Hurst & Co.
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
02 Jul 2016
French rights in Looking Through You: The Beatles Book Monthly Photo Archive by Tom Adams.
Chinese rights in The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac.
Hebrew rights in Curse on this Country by Danny Orbach
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New biography of E.S. Nesbit to Duckworth & Overlook
02 Jul 2016
Duckworth and Overlook have jointly bought World English rights in Eleanor Fitzsimons’s new life of Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) considered to be the first modern writer for children and a key influence for writers from C.S. Lewis to J.K. Rowling.
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US & UK rights sold in Ghost Riders
02 Jul 2016
Icon have bought UK and Da Capo North American rights in Ghost Riders, Mark Felton’s filmic account of how GIs joined forces with surrendered German soldiers and liberated prisoners-of-war to save the worlds finest horses from the SS and Red Army in an extraordinary battle at the close of the war in Europe.
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The Ottoman Endgame shortlisted for 2015 Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature
16 Jun 2016
Sean McMeekin’s The Ottoman Endgame is one of six books shortlisted for the 2015 Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature . The final winner will be announced at the annual award ceremony in the autumn .
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Understanding how children tick: managing challenging behaviours
11 Jun 2016
Interesting piece by Casey Watson on how to manage children’s behaviour
http://www.caseywatson.co.uk/2016/understanding-how-children-tick-managing-challenging-behaviours/
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David McClure on royal finances
10 Jun 2016
David McClure has written a very interesting piece for the International Business Times on the royal family’s mysterious finances.
‘They do things differently on Planet Windsor. That’s the term given by Prince Charles’s most recent biographer to the rarefied world inhabited by the royal family. What Catherine Mayer had in mind were the peculiarities and rivalries of court life, but in my experience researching a book on the wealth of the Windsors it also applies to how the royal family is immune to the normal rules of public scrutiny.’
I tried to find out just how rich the royal family is - it’s a well-kept secret
