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  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    17 Dec 2018

    Romanian rights in Nicholas Best’s Target Jablunka.

    Italian and Polish rights in Julia Boyd’s Travellers in the Third Reich.

    Greek rights in Nessa Carey’s Junk DNA.

    Vietnamese rights in Cathy Glass’s Another Forgotten Child.

    Romanian rights in Christian Jennings’s The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German code-breaking 1935-‘45.

  • 'Darling Winston, Dearest Mamma' is Book of the Year

    17 Dec 2018

    Congratulations to David Lough whose collection of correspondence between Winston Churchill and his mother , Darling Winston, Dearest Mamma, was a Daily Mail Book of the Year. They wrote ‘This sparkling volume will be devoured by all who revere Churchill.’

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    27 Nov 2018

    French rights in Julia Boyd’s Travellers in the Third Reich.

    Polish and German rights in Jeremy Dronfield’s The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz..

    Czech rights in Hitler’s Last Plot : The 139 Men, Women, and Children Saved from Imminent Execution in the Final Days of the Third Reich by Ian Sayer and Jeremy Dronfield.

  • New Cathy Glass book to Collins

    27 Nov 2018

    Harper Collins have bought world rights in Cathy Glass’s next fostering memoir. Innocent is the true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries. It will be her 31st book and 23rd fostering memoir.

  • Agency is no 1 for UK non-fiction

    15 Nov 2018

    According to the latest publishermarketplace Andrew Lownie is

    1 in International rights: UK Non-fiction; 1 in Non-fiction: Reference; 5 in Non-fiction: History/Politics/Current Affairs;

    The agency is

    1 in International rights: UK Non-fiction; 3 in Non-fiction: Reference; 10 in Non-fiction: True crime;

  • Travellers in the Third Reich a Spectator Book of the Year

    12 Nov 2018

    Congratulations to Julia Boyd whose Travellers in the Third Reich was a Spectator Book of the Year this week.

  • Book on Royal Family's links to Intelligence Services bought by Atlantic

    12 Nov 2018

    UK and Commonwealth rights in Spying on the Royals: Intelligence, Security and the Monarchy from Victoria to Diana by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac have been bought by Atlantic.

  • Ambassadors of Goodwill short-listed for the Cricket Society Book of the Year

    12 Nov 2018

    Congratulations to Mark Peel whose Ambassadors of Goodwill: On tour with the MCC 1946-71 has been short-listed for the Cricket Society Book of the Year

  • Third month for Cathy Glass in bestseller list

    07 Nov 2018

    Cathy Glass’s Where Has Mummy Gone? is Number 6 in the Sunday Times Bestsellers this week .

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    07 Nov 2018

    Romanian rights in The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac.

    Swedish rights in Julia Boyd’s Travellers in the Third Reich.

    Hungarian rights in Roger Crowley’s Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire .