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Mortuary memoir optioned for drama

09 Feb 2021

Shoni Productions have optioned Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue by Peter Everett and Kris Hollington.

Two more Casey Watson memoirs to Harper Collins

09 Feb 2021

Harper Collins have bought world rights in two more Casey Watson fostering memoirs – nos 19 and 20 – I Just Want to be Loved and I Want my Daddy!

Biography of Margaret Tudor to Head of Zeus

05 Feb 2021

Head of Zeus have bought World English rights in Linda Porter’s biography of Margaret Tudor The Thistle and the Rose.

Douglas Jardine biography to Pitch Publishing

04 Feb 2021

Pitch Publishing have bought world rights in Mark Peel’s biography of cricketer Douglas Jardine

Alcott book nominated for award

02 Feb 2021

Congratulations to Kristina West whose book, Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child, has been nominated for the International Research Society of Children’s Literature (IRSCL) 2021 Book Award

Women in Intelligence to Yale

28 Jan 2021

Yale University Press have bought world rights in Helen Fry’s Women in Intelligence.

RAF memoir fighting ISIS to Michael Joseph

28 Jan 2021

Michael Joseph have bought World English rights in First Strike, Mike Sutton’s memoir of flying against ISIS written with Clifford Thurlow.

Recent Foreign Rights sales

22 Jan 2021

Bulgarian rights in The Lenin Plot: the unknown story of America’s war against Russia. by Barnes Carr.

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

Lithuanian rights in San McMeekin’s Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II

Courtesan's life optioned for drama

22 Jan 2021

Shoni Productions have optioned Catherine Hewitt’s life of the courtesan, the Countess Valtesse de la Bigne,The Mistress of Paris.

US Spy book optioned

18 Jan 2021

Bufalo Drive Pictures have optioned Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI Brought Down the Nazis in America.