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Andrew Lownie second top selling agent in world
28 May 2016
According to publishersmarketplace, Andrew Lownie is the second top selling agent in the world with thirty three deals in the last six months just behind Jill Marsal , who specialises in women’s romance, at thirty six.
He is also
1 in International rights: UK Non-fiction 2 in Non-fiction: History/Politics/Current Affairs 2 in Biography 3 in Reference -
Shadow State reviewed in Evening Standard
28 May 2016
Wonderful review of Alan White’s Shadow State: Inside The Secret Companies That Run Britain in Evening Standard
”..this powerful account of the impact of the privatisation of public services in this country,..this book is worth reading…a timely and important analysis of this often overlooked feature of public life.”
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
27 May 2016
Chinese rights in Lawrence James’s Churchill and Empire and Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa, 1830-1980.
US rights in Desmond Seward’s Henry V.
Polish rights in Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers.
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Paedophile memoir to Mirror Books
27 May 2016
Mirror Books have bought World English rights in Alice Wells’s Eating the Elephant, a mother’s account of the impact of a husband’s devastating addiction to internet child pornography and how this dark world reached right into the heart of her own home. They publish in July.
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Good review for ITHACA in Booklist
27 May 2016
Patrick Dillon’s new novel Ithaca, an imaginative retelling of the Odyssey, has had another terrific review, this time from Booklist.
“Dillon has done an excellent job of reimagining the end of The Odyssey and charting Telemachus’ growth from a timid youth to a capable young man. The story is smoothly told and suspenseful.”
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Black Brain, White Brain nominated for Media24 award
27 May 2016
Gavin Evans’ book on the myths surrounding intelligence and race Black Brain, White Brain has been nominated for a Media24 award.
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More coverage for A Life In Death
25 May 2016
Richard Venables’ powerful new police memoir A Life In Death has been receiving lots of press coverage. The book was released last week by Thistle Publishing.
How Hillsborough disaster motivated policeman to help victims of world’s worst tragedies
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New word book to Elliott & Thompson
21 May 2016
Elliott & Thompson have commissioned a new trivia book from Paul Anthony Jones. How Rocks Became Clouds: The Surprising Evolution of 100 Words will be published for Christmas.
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Voting opens for the People's Book Prize
20 May 2016
Voting has opened for the People’s Book Prize 2016, and Chloe Banks’ debut novel The Art of Letting Go is one of the finalists (and needs your vote!).
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ITV Studios option Murder in the Family
18 May 2016
ITV Studios have optioned Jeremy Josephs’s Murder in the Family the gripping account of Jersey’s most notorious and fascinating murder case.
