21 Jul 2016
US rights in Elizabeth Norton’s The Lives of Tudor Women, the first comprehensive look at the experiences of 50% of the English population in the period, have been sold to option publisher Pegasus.
21 Jul 2016
Head of Zeus have bought World English rights in Mary Hollingsworth’s history of the Medici family for publication next year.
21 Jul 2016
North American rights in Catharine Arnold’s Pandemic 1918 have been sold to St Martin’s Press.
21 Jul 2016
Alice Well’s Eating the Elephant , serialised in the Mirror today , has gone to 386 on Amazon
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-married-paedophile-abused-daughter-8459680
20 Jul 2016
Congratulations to Julie Shaw whose latest memoir in the Hudson family series Bad Blood has gone straight into the non-fiction paperback list after a half week of sales at no 3.
18 Jul 2016
Patrick Dillon’s new novel Ithaca, a retelling of Homer’s Odyssey, has been getting fantastic reviews: ‘A vibrant retelling of The Odyssey … The book deftly chronicles the 16-year-old’s feelings of abandonment, humiliation, and anguish …as rich as it is complex. This is a smart and highly readable adventure, and a fresh take on a classic story.’ Publishers Weekly (available online here): ‘Dillon’s done an excellent job of reimagining The Odyssey… Smoothly told and suspenseful … invites a sequel.’ Michael Cart, Booklist ‘An extraordinary reimagining … daring and completely successful. The prose is at once spare and rich, the descriptions intense and compelling. This is a book not to be missed.’ Terence Hawkins, author of The Rage of Achilles
13 Jul 2016
Congratulations to Chloe Banks, whose wonderful debut novel The Art of Letting Go was a finalist at last night’s People’s Book Awards, hosted by Frederick Forsyth.
13 Jul 2016
Mike Pannett’s sensational new memoir Crime Squad: Life And Death On London’s Front Line was serialised in the Evening Standard this week. The book has just been published by Thistle Books.
London gangster jailed for Pc death ‘may have killed four others’
06 Jul 2016
Chicago Review Press have bought North American rights in Jeremy Dronfield’s The Stone Crusher: The True Story of the Kleinmann Family’s Fight for Survival in the Holocaust
06 Jul 2016
David Day has been commissioned to write a history of Antarctica for an Oxford University Press series.