News
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Recent Foreign Rights sales
09 Feb 2017
Romanian rights n Richard Aldrich’s GCHQ.
Japanese rights in Patrick Dillon’s The Story of Buildings.
Romanian rights in Mark Felton’s Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini’s Colditz.
French rights in Cathy Glass’s The Girl in the Mirror.
Complex Chinese rights in Lawrence James’s Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa, 1830-1980. Chinese rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Russian Revolution.
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Travellers in the Third Reich to Elliott & Thompson
03 Feb 2017
Elliott & Thompson have bought UK & Commonwealth rights in Julia Boyd’s account of travellers in the Third Reich for publication in August.
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Coronet buys book on Black Dahlia case
03 Feb 2017
Coronet have bought UK rights in Piu Eatwell’s re-examination of The Black Dahlia case Black Dahlia, Red Rose. North American rights have been sold to Norton.
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World English rights sold in Otto Skorzeny biography
03 Feb 2017
Osprey have bought World English rights in Stuart Smith’s The Most Dangerous Man in Europe : The Reputation of Colonel Otto Skorzeny
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US rights sold in Elizabeth’s Rival: The Life of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester
03 Feb 2017
Pegasus have bought US rights in Nicola Tallis’ Elizabeth’s Rival: The Life of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester UK rights have already been sold to O’Mara Books.
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A Life in Death moves into bestseller list
30 Jan 2017
Richard Venables’ extraordinary memoir A Life in Death moved into the Amazon top ten bestseller list at the weekend, reaching #7.
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Stalin's Englishman wins Intelligence Book Award
25 Jan 2017
Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess has won the St Ermin’s Intelligence Book of the Year award. Adam Sisman’s John le Carre: The Biography was the runner-up.
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New Cathy Glass memoir to Harper Collins
20 Jan 2017
Harper Collins have bought world rights in Cruel To Be Kind, Cathy Glass’s account of fostering six year old Max.
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Recent Foreign Rights sales
20 Jan 2017
Hungarian rights in Roger Crowley’s City of Fortune.
Romanian rights in Peter Padfield’s biography Donitz.
Portuguese rights in Hitler’s Forgotten Children by Tim Tate and Ingrid von Oelhafen.
Polish rights in Casey Watson’s memoir Runaway Girl.
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Of Fortunes and War extract in the Mail
16 Jan 2017
There continues to be huge interest in Clare Hollingworth, who sadly passed away last week. This weekend, the Daily Mail serialised a passage from Patrick Garrett’s biography Of Fortunes and War:
There was also a piece in the Times:
