News
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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:
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Clare Hollingworth
13 Jan 2017
As most will be aware, this week brought the sad news of the passing of the great Clare Hollingworth, recently memorialised by Patrick Garrett in Of Fortunes and War.
The global response has been extraordinary. The following are just a handful of the more interesting pieces:
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Matt Wilven part of WH Smith 'Fresh Talent' selection
13 Jan 2017
Matt Wilven, whose debut novel The Blackbird Singularity was recently longlisted for the Not The Booker prize, has been selected by WH Smith as one of 12 Fresh Talents for 2017.
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US rights sold in The Accidental Dictionary
06 Jan 2017
Pegasus have bought US rights in Paul Jones’s The Accidental Dictionary: The Surprising Evolution of 100 Words.
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Roger Howard's Warmongers to Amberley
03 Jan 2017
Amberley have bought UK and Commonwealth rights in Roger Howard’s Warmongers which looks at ‘unnecessary’ wars, or where political figures have used a grossly disproportionate, ‘unnecessary’, amount of force.
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Roger Crowley moves to Yale
03 Jan 2017
Roger Crowley has moved with his editor Julian Loose to Yale who have bought UK and Commonwealth rights in End Game of the Crusades: The Siege of Acre 1291. Perseus have US rights.
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David McClure on King Charles III
23 Dec 2016
An interesting new piece by David McClure in the International Business Times:
King Charles III: Is the Queen getting ready to hand over the reins to her son?
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The People's Book Prize
22 Dec 2016
Two agency titles - David McGrath’s scintillating debut novel Rickshaw, and gripping police memoir A Life in Death - have been longlisted for The People’s Book Prize. Both are published by Thistle Books. You can vote for them here.
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Recent Foreign Rights sales
22 Dec 2016
Polish rights in Mary Hollingsworth’s The Medici.
Polish rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Russian Revolution.
