News
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Daniel Tammet interviewed in the Times
17 Aug 2017
Daniel Tammet is interviewed in the Times today talking about his new book Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with Language
‘Tammet’s struggle for everyday conversation in English masked a gift for languages that helped to turn him into a bestselling writer with an eye for the detail that separates good authors from bad.’
‘He has gone from being a person with autism who writes, to a writer with autistic roots. Soon, probably, no one will bother mentioning the autistic roots.’
‘[The book] is a journey through labyrinths of language and the oddities of those who speak it — all of us, in other words. It is not a book about the idiosyncrasies of autism. It is a book about the idiosyncrasies of humanity.’
‘Descriptions fly out at the reader … his literary talents … he found salvation in writing.’
The book will be extracted in the Guardian next week and he is due to be interviewed on Newsnight and will be appearing at the Edinburgh Festival.
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Recent Foreign Rights sales
17 Aug 2017
German rights in Cathy Glass’s Damaged.
Croatian rights in A Very Dangerous Woman : The Lives,. Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy by Deborah McDonald and Jeremy Dronfield.
French rights in Lisa Stone’s first novel The Darkness Within.
Finnish rights in Daniel Tammet’s Born on a Blue Day - the 27th foreign sale.
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Two agency titles reviewed in weekend Telegraph
07 Aug 2017
Lewis Jones described Julia Boyd’s Travellers in the Third Reich as ‘a compelling narrative’ where the voices of her interviewees ‘skilfully orchestrated, speak for themselves…with great eloquence whilst Ivan Hewett reviewing Adam Ockelford’s Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music felt ‘there is much to learn from this book’.
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Latest on tv plans for James Barry book
12 Jul 2017
The latest news with regard to Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield is that Warner Bros TV is getting ready to start pitching to networks to try and get a series off the ground. They’ve signed up actress Sarah Paulson (lead in American Horror Story etc.) to play James Barry.
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Emma Wells's book on world's greatest cathedrals sold to Head of Zeus
12 Jul 2017
Head of Zeus have bought world rights in Emma Wells’s Heaven on Earth , an illuminating narrative of the conception and legacies of twenty of the world’s greatest cathedrals interwoven with an exploration of the lives, legends and scandals of the people who built them .
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Wilde's Women shortlisted for Rubery Book Award
12 Jul 2017
Congratulations to Eleanor Fitzsimons whose Wilde’s Women , published by Duckworth and Overlook, has made the short list for the Rubery Book Award, an international prize for indie writers, self published authors and books published by independent presses.
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Recent Foreign Rights sales
12 Jul 2017
Spanish rights in Julian Maclaren-Ross’s Of Love and Hunger
Macedonian rights in John Worthen’s life of Robert Schumann.
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US rights sold in book on the Queen's childhood
06 Jul 2017
Globe Pequot have bought North American rights in Jane Dismore’s Behind Golden Doors: the life of Princess Elizabeth. The book will be published next year.
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New Cathy Glass memoir to Harper Collins
06 Jul 2017
Collins have bought world rights in Cathy Glass’s latest fostering memoir A Long Way From Home, the story of Anna originally brought up in a state orphanage.
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Yale buy study of Churchill in pivotal year 1921
23 Jun 2017
Yale have bought World English rights in David Stafford’s Churchill 1921: This wonderful and terrible year a year which transformed him from the caricatured figure of the bombastic and unpredictable risk taker to statesmanlike Cabinet member and potential prime minister.
