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  • Two more bestsellers for Thistle Books

    21 Nov 2016

    Over the weekend, two agency titles published by Thistle Books reached the Amazon top 100 bestseller list: Earth: An Alien Enterprise by Timothy Good, and War Beneath the Sea by Peter Padfield (which reached the top 40).

  • Ninth week in bestseller list for Cathy Glass

    19 Nov 2016

    Can I Let You Go? by Cathy Glass remains in the top 20 - this week at number 17.

  • US rights in Caesar's Footprints to Pegasus

    16 Nov 2016

    Pegasus have bought US rights in Bijan Omrani’s Caesar’s Footprints, the legacy of Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul in 50 BC .

  • Without a Mother's Love on TV this Sunday

    16 Nov 2016

    CBS Reality – Saturday 19 November 10pm – The Day I Should Have Died

    Author Amanda Wright’s incredible story of survival is told in compelling detail this Sunday when CBS Reality airs an hour long documentary about how John Dickinson strangled her mother and then came after four-year-old Amanda. He lay their lifeless bodies on the bed side by side then set fire to the house before fleeing the scene of the crime.

    For the first time on TV, this shocking murder is examined through the testimony of those who were witnesses to what happened and its terrible aftermath. It is based on Amanda’s heartbreaking memoir Without a Mother’s Love, co-written with Katy Weitz, which was published by Blake this year and can be ordered through Amazon.

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    14 Nov 2016

    Korean rights have been sold in Joe Fuhrmann’s Rasputin: The Untold Story.

    Hebrew rights have been sold in Danny Orbach’s The Plots Against Hitler.

    Chinese rights have been sold in Joff Sharpe’s Who Dares Wins in Business: Doing business the SAS way

  • The Plots Against Hitler sold to Head of Zeus

    14 Nov 2016

    UK and Commonwealth rights in Danny Orbach’s acclaimed book on resistance to Nazism The Plots Against Hitler have been sold to Head of Zeus. Houghton have just published in the US.

  • Sean McMeekin's new history of Russian Revolution sold to Profile

    14 Nov 2016

    Sean McMeekin’s revisionist account of the Russian Revolution, drawn from new archives, has been sold to Profile. Basic will publish in the US.

  • Cathy Glass remains in bestseller list

    09 Nov 2016

    Cathy Glass’s Can I Let You Go? remains in the charts for an eighth consecutive week - this time no 14.

  • Chloe Banks back in Amazon bestseller list

    08 Nov 2016

    Chloe Banks’ debut novel, The Art of Letting Go, has once again returned to the Amazon bestseller list, reaching number 39 over the weekend.

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    08 Nov 2016

    German rights in Duncan Falconer’s The Hostage.

    Italian rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

    Korean rights in Clare Mulley’s The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb