News
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Collection of Churchill letters sold to Head of Zeus
16 Mar 2017
UK & Commonwealth rights in an edition of Winston Churchill’s correspondence with his mother have been sold to Head of Zeus. Darling Winston: My Dearest Mama edited by David Lough, whose last book No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money was shortlisted for the History Today Award, will be published next year.
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Jerusalems Traitor: Josephus, Masada and the Fall of Judaea optioned to Hollywood
13 Mar 2017
RJM Productions have optioned Desmond Seward’s Jerusalem’s Traitor: Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judaea .
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Recent Foreign Rights sales
13 Mar 2017
French rights in Cathy Glass’s Cut
Romanian rights in Danny Orbach’s The Plots Against Hitler
Turkish rights in Gary Smith’s Standard Deviations.
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Chinese buy seven back-list Robert Hutchinson titles
13 Mar 2017
New World publishing in China have bought Robert Hutchinson’s
The Spanish Armada Young Henry The Last Days of Henry V111 Thomas Cromwell Elizabeth’s Spymaster House of Treason The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood
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Book on German wartime code-breaking sold to Osprey.
13 Mar 2017
Osprey have bought World English rights in Christian Jennings’s The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German code-breaking 1935-‘45 , the inside story of Germany’s huge pre-war and wartime code-breaking operations.
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Female spy biography optioned
13 Mar 2017
New Pictures have optioned Paddy Hayes’s biography of the spy Daphne Park Queen of Spies
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Book on Charles 11's mistresses to Macmillan
13 Mar 2017
Macmillan have continued their association with Linda Porter buying UK & Commonwealth rights in a book, provisionally called Loose Ladies, about he mistresses of Charles 11.
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Dog memoir to Quercus
13 Mar 2017
At auction Quercus have secured World English rights in Finn: The courageous police dog who was stabbed and came back from the brink, and is now about to change the law. Ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee, it charts the relationship between Dave Wardell and his dog Finn. The under-bidder was Sidgwick & Jackson.
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John Blake buy memoir about septicaemia
13 Mar 2017
John Blake have bought World English rights in Starfish by Tom and Nic Ray a powerful love story about the triumph of the human spirit against adversity. Tom Ray, an Exeter University graduate, was working in banking , with one young child and another on the way, when just before his fortieth birthday he was struck down by septicaemia. The result was the loss of his limbs and half his face.
It is a moving account of how he rebuilt his life with the support of his wife against not just psychological and medical challenges but also financial hardship. The story inspired last year’s film ‘Starfish’ featuring Tom Riley (Da Vinci’s Demons, The Collection) as Tom and Joanne Froggatt (Golden Globe Winner, Downton Abbey)as Nic.
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Nobody’s Son is Number 1 in the Sunday Times Paperback Bestsellers for second week
10 Mar 2017
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose latest fostering memoir Nobody’s Son remains at Number One in the Sunday Times non-fiction paperback bestseller list for a second week.
