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  • 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

  • Unravelled film short-listed for a BAFTA

    09 Jan 2018

    Kingdom of Us, Lucy Cohen’s documentary about the Shanks family based on VIkie Shanks’s memoir Unravelled has been short-listed for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer. The prize-giving is on 18th February.

  • The Brideship Wife sold to Simon & Schuster Canada

    08 Jan 2018

    Leslie Howard’s extraordinary debut novel The Brideship Wife has been bought by Simon & Schuster Canada. The book tells the story of one woman’s quest for independence and adventure in the “modern world” of 1862, from England to the gold fields of British Columbia.