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  • Death of agency author Patrick Delaforce

    05 Feb 2018

    It is with regret we announce the death of agency author Patrick Delaforce.

    Patrick served as a troop leader in Normandy, was with the first battle group into Bergen- Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, was twice mentioned in despatches, and was awarded the Bronze Cross of Orange-Nassau.

    In autumn 1945 he served on a War Crimes Tribunal in Hamburg and tried many concentration camp guards and was an official British Army of the Rhine witness when Mr Albert Pierrepoint, the British hangman, executed 13 convicted war criminals in Hameln on 13 December 1945.

    After leaving the army, he worked as a port wine shipper and ran an advertising agency in New York, before becoming a professional writer, mainly on historical and military subjects.

  • Andrew Lownie top-selling non-fiction agent in world

    05 Feb 2018

    According to publishersmarketplace, Andrew Lownie is the top selling non-fiction agent in the world with 51 recorded deals over the last year. He is also no 1 in biography.

    The agency is no 1 for UK non-fiction and no 2 world wide in biography.

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    02 Feb 2018

    Portuguese rights in Jonathan Conlin’s Mr Five Per Cent: : the many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world’s richest man.

    Turkish rights in Cathy Glass’s Happy Adults and Happy Kids.

    Finnish rights in Stuart Smith’s The Most Dangerous Man in Europe : The Reputation of Colonel Otto Skorzeny

  • New Cathy Glass memoir to Harper Collins

    02 Feb 2018

    Collins have bought World rights in Cathy Glass’s latest fostering memoir Where has Mummy Gone?, the story of eight-year old Melody.

  • Holocaust memoir to Michael Joseph

    02 Feb 2018

    UK rights in Jeremy Dronfield’s The Stone Crusher: The True Story of the Kleinmann Family’s Fight for Survival in the Holocaust have been bought by Michael Joseph.

  • UK rights in Stalin's War to Penguin

    02 Feb 2018

    UK & Commonwealth rights , excluding Canada, in Sean McMeekin’s revisionist study Stalin’s War have been bought by Penguin.

  • History of Anglo-Chinese relations to Weidenfeld

    02 Feb 2018

    World rights in Lawrence James’s Lion and Dragon , a history of Anglo-Chinese relations have been bought by his regular publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

  • Reissue of Naples: A Travellers' Companion

    02 Feb 2018

    :Little Brown have bought World English rights in Desmond Seward’s Naples: A Travellers Companion , a topographical anthology which recreates for today’s tourist the drama, the history and the life of the city in buildings and locations that can be visited.

  • Mail on Sunday serialise police dog memoir

    28 Jan 2018

    Mail on Sunday have begun their serial of Fabulous Finn: The Brave Police Dog Who Was Stabbed and Came Back from the Brink to be published next month by Quercus. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5320577/Finn-police-dog-refused-let-go.html

  • Another glowing review for J. D. Dixon

    09 Jan 2018

    J. D. Dixon’s astounding debut novel The Unrivalled Transcendence of Willem J. Gyle has received another rave review:

    “Will keep you engrossed at every turn… This gut-wrenching novel… This book is a must -read for everyone.” Underrated Reads