News
-
Book on Special Forces and Foreign Policy serialised
30 May 2018
Rory Cormac’s Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy has been generating a lot of publicity, especially in Ireland, including two extracts in the Belfast Telegraph
-
Documents figure in Antiques Roadshow
30 May 2018
A cache of mysterious old documents discovered by author Patrick Garrett will feature in a Special Antiques Roadshow – ‘Pioneering Women’ – on BBC at 8pm on Sunday June 10th.
The documents belonged to the celebrated War Correspondent, Clare Hollingworth, and proved to be the impetus and inspiration for Patrick’s biography of Hollingworth, “Of Fortunes & War”, published last year.
The programme was filmed in the Houses of Parliament, and is timed to celebrate a century since women secured the vote in the UK.
-
Huge interest in new book on Robert Kennedy
29 May 2018
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by Tim Tate and Brad Johnson, published by Thistle Books, was serialised over the weekend in the Daily Mail, and has been generating lots of media coverage.
Why the man who’s spent 50 years in jail for killing Bobby Kennedy COULDN’T have done it
Did the CIA’s girl in a polka-dot dress hypnotise Bobby Kennedy’s killer?
-
Recent Foreign Rights sales
28 May 2018
Romanian rights in The Black Door : Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac.
Hungarian rights in Roger Crowley’s Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire.
Swedish rights in Cathy Glass’s A Long Way From Home
Thai rights in Danny Orbach’s The Plots Against Hitler.
-
Black Dahlia on CWA longlist
20 May 2018
Congratulations to Piu Eatwell whose The Black Dahlia has made the long list for the non-fiction dagger award of the UK Crime Writers Association.
-
-
Paul Jones word book to Elliott & Thompson
16 May 2018
Elliott & Thompson have bought World English rights in Paul Anthony Jones’s latest word book Around the World in 80 Words.
-
Film of Secret Child wins awards
15 May 2018
A short based on Gordon Lewis’s memoir Secret Child has won the Best Short Film at the Oniros Film Awards and Best Short Film at the Gold Movie Awards in London.
-
Halifax child sex ring memoir to Blake
15 May 2018
John Blake have bought Prey: The shocking true story from the girl at the centre of the Halifax child sex ring by Cassie Pike and Katy Weitz for publication next year.
-
American POW story to Hachette and Icon.
09 May 2018
North American rights in Mark Felton’s Men of Confidence: The Untold Escape of American Prisoners-of-War From Hitler’s Holocaust to Hachette and UK rights to Icon.
