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  • Helen Fry on 'David Jason’s Secret Service'

    19 Dec 2017

    Don’t miss author and historian Helen Fry on ‘David Jason’s Secret Service’ tonight at 9pm on More4, talking about her extraordinary book Spymaster.

  • John Woolf wins Biographers Club Prize

    18 Dec 2017

    Congratulations to John Woolf whose Queen Victoria’s Freaks is the winner of this year’s Biographers Club prize for the best uncommissioned proposal.

  • Daniel Tammet one of the winners for the Booklist Editors' Choice awards 2017.

    17 Dec 2017

    Congratulations to Daniel Tammet whose Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with Language was one of the winners for the Booklist Editors’ Choice awards 2017.

  • Gavin Evans gives TED talk on Feminism, Fatherhood and the Nurturing Instinct

    13 Dec 2017

    Gavin Evans, the author of Mapreaders and Multitaskers: Men, Women, Nature Nurture, has given a fascinating TED talk on the topic of Feminism, Fatherhood and the Nurturing Instinct. You can watch it here.

  • Vikie Shanks on Woman's Hour

    13 Dec 2017

    Vikie Shanks was on Woman’s Hour this week, discussing her book Unravelled, and the resulting Netflix film Kingdom of Us. You can listen again here (interview starts at 18.36).

  • Award nomination for James Dixon

    13 Dec 2017

    James Dixon’s extraordinary debut novel The Unrivalled Transcendence of Willem J. Gyle has been nominated for the Rosie’s Book Awards 2017. You can vote here (please do).

  • Cathy Glass remains in bestseller list

    03 Dec 2017

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose Cruel to be Kind is number 18 in the Sunday Times this week.

  • Author Helen Fry on More4

    29 Nov 2017

    Author and historian Helen Fry was a contributor to David Jason’s Secret Service, starting on December 5th, 9pm on More4. Helen is set to feature in episodes 1 and 3.

  • Black Dahlia, Red Rose Times Book of the Year

    25 Nov 2017

    Congratulations to Piu Eatwell whose Black Dahlia, Red Rose about the savage killing of Elizabeth Short in 1947 , a case which inspired James Elroy’s The Black Dahlia, has been chosen as a Times Book of the Year. Marcel Berlins is impressed by her ‘thorough research, which includes evidence never revealed before, or even known to have existed. Readable and convincing.’

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    22 Nov 2017

    Slovakian and Czech rights in The Borgias by Mary Hollingsworth.

    Croatian rights in Danny Orbach;’s The Plots Against Hitler.

    Chinese rights in Daniel Tammet’s Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with Language.