News
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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.
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Renoir's Dancer sold in US
22 Dec 2016
US rights in Catherine Hewitt’s Renoir’s Dancer, the life of Suzanne Valadon, considered the Impressionists’ most beautiful model, have been sold to St Martin’s Press. Icon publish in the UK in 2017.
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James Barry is a Sunday Times Biography of Year
05 Dec 2016
Congratulations to Jeremy Dronfield and Michael Du Preez whose Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time has been named a Sunday Times Biography of Year and described as “this thoroughly engaging history”.
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Agency author short-listed for Blue Peter Prize
05 Dec 2016
The individuals in David Long’s Survivors (Faber & Faber) owe their good fortune to luck and perseverance as well as to some extraordinary ingenuity. Now this anthology of true stories, concerning eight escapees from the former East Germany, is on to the Blue Peter Book of the Year shortlist – one of just three titles to be selected by the judges.
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Ghostwriting tips from Katy Weitz
01 Dec 2016
Agency ghost writer Katy Weitz gives her top writing tips here
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David Weston in the Telegraph
29 Nov 2016
David Weston has written an entertaining piece in the Telegraph, in the course of promoting his excellent new novel Luciano’s War.
Kirk Douglas vs Richard Harris: Secrets of the most bitter feud in Hollywood’s golden age
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Agency authors make Times 'Books of the Year'
29 Nov 2016
Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield made the Biography section where it was described as ‘gripping, unusual, moving’ .
Josephine Wilkinson’s Katherine Howard : Tarnished Purity was selected in the history section. The Times felt “this book deserves commendation because of the painful truth it reveals about how women are abused by men and then blamed for the lust they arouse. Good history challenges us to think as much about the present as about the past.”
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Roger Howard shortlisted for the Franco-British Society Literary Award 2017.
29 Nov 2016
Congratulations to Roger Howard whose Power and Glory: France’s Secret Wars with Britain and America, 1945-2016 is a Daily Telegraph ‘History Book of the Year’ and has been shortlisted for the Franco-British Society Literary Award 2017.
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Crown of Blood is a BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
29 Nov 2016
Congratulations to Nicola Tallis whose Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey is one of the BBC History Magazine’s ‘Books of the Year’. They describe it as “stunning…throws new light on the dramatic life of one of the most tragic figures in history…Drawing on new research, Tallis presents Jane as complex, intelligent, charismatic, radical and, ultimately, courageous.”
