News
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Travellers in the Third Reich is a top 5 bestseller
18 Sep 2017
Congratulations to Julia Boyd whose Travellers in the Third Reich was a top five London Bestseller in the Standard.
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Listen again to Lavinia Greacen
15 Sep 2017
You can now listen again to Lavinia Greacen’s fascinating interview on RTE Radio about the amazing Eric Dornan-Smith, the subject of her acclaimed biography Chink.
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Cathy Glass enters lists at no 2
13 Sep 2017
Cathy Glass’s Cruel to be Kind has hit the Sunday Times Paperback bestsellers at Number 2 , its first week of publication.
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Lavinia Greacen on RTE Radio
07 Sep 2017
Don’t miss Lavinia Greacen, the author of the fascinating biography Chink, on RTE Radio this weekend talking about the subject of her book, the extraordinary Eric Dorman-Smith. The broadcast will be on Saturday, September 9th., RTÉ Radio 1 at 1pm.
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Battleship moves into Amazon bestsellers
07 Sep 2017
Peter Padfield’s Battleship, the complete history of battleships, has moved into the Amazon top 100 bestsellers.
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Ebury buys book on how a terminal illness brought a couple closer together
02 Sep 2017
World English rights in Patrick Dillon’s moving account of the death from leukemia. of his wife the theatre producer Nicola Thorold A Moment of Grace have been bought by Ebury for publication in May.
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The Black Dahlia optioned
30 Aug 2017
Documentary rights in Piu Eatwell’s Black Dahlia, Red Rose, which provides a new and startling solution to the infamous ‘Black Dahlia’ murder of 1947, have been optioned by Peacock Productions at NBC Universal. The book is published in October in the US by Norton and in the UK by Hodder.
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Pegasus buy US and Canadian rights in two agency titles.
30 Aug 2017
Pegasus have bought US and Canadian rights in Adam Ockelford’s Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music Travellers in the Third Reich just out from Elliott & Thompson. -
Biography of John McDonnell to Biteback
30 Aug 2017
Biteback have bought rights in Bobby Friedman’s life of Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell McDonnell: Corbyn’s left-hand man for publication this autumn. BBC journalist and lawyer Friedman’s previous books include a biography of Speaker John Bercow and study of party political funding.
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Auschwitz survivor Sam Pivnik dies
30 Aug 2017
I am sorry to announce that agency author Sam Pivnik died in London this morning two days before his 91st birthday.
During the Second World War, Sam was incarcerated in a number of concentration and extermination camps in Poland and Germany and he is believed to be the last remaining Jewish survivor to have worked on the ramp at Auschwitz. At the end of the war, Sam was one of the detainees on the prison ship Cap Arcona, which was bombed and sunk by the RAF, in an incident which remains a source of controversy.
After the war, Sam played an important role in the foundation of the state of Israel. During the War Of Independence, he fought in the 79th Brigade alongside Jews and gentiles, including former British soldiers who sympathised with the Jewish cause. Eventually, he came to live in London, where he worked initially as a tailor, before becoming a respected art dealer and restorer.
His memoir Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March and My Fight for Freedom was published by Hodder in 2012 and rights sold in US, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Holland, Italy, France,
