News
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France's Great Game to Biteback
01 Mar 2016
Biteback have bought World English rights in Roger Howard’s France’s Great Game which , drawing on original French, British and American archival sources and interviews, tells the true story of the ‘Great Game’ that France has played against Britain and America since 1945.
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Book on colour to Michael O'Mara
01 Mar 2016
Michael O’Mara have commissioned world rights in Gavin Evans’s The Story of Colour: Uncovering the Rainbow’s Hidden Meanings , a social, historical and cultural look at colour and its meaning and significance in different cultures.
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Cathy Glass goes straight into bestseller list at no 1
01 Mar 2016
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose The Silent Cry has gone straight to No. 1 in the non-fiction paperback best sellers this week.
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Lots of media coverage for Julie Shaw
01 Mar 2016
Julie Shaw’s new book Blood Ties has been generating lots of media interest, including the following pieces in the Big Issue in the North, and Sunday People: Love Sunday.
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Vikie Shanks on BBC Radio
01 Mar 2016
Vikie Shanks was on the Graham Torrington show, promoting her powerful memoir Unravelled. You can hear the full interview here (begins at 1.23).
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
21 Feb 2016
Chinese rights in Lynne Barrett-Lee’s Novel: Plan it, Write it, Sell it
Russian rights in Roger Crowley’s Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire.
German and Polish rights in Rachel Kelly’s Walking on Sunshine: 52 Steps to Happiness
Polish rights in Andrew Lownie’s Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
Indonesian rights in Eleanor of Aquitaine by Desmond Seward
Bulgarian rights in Desmond Seward’s Napoleon and Hitler
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Book on Japanese military culture sold to Cornell University Press
21 Feb 2016
World English rights in Danny Orbach’s Curse on this Country have been sold to Cornell University Press. Based on original documents in fifteen archives and five different languages, the book sheds light on the underground culture of insubordination that became increasingly dominant in the Japanese armed forces, until it made the Pacific War possible
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Thistle in Writing Magazine
16 Feb 2016
There’s a nice piece on the agency’s publishing imprint Thistle Books in the current issue of Writing Magazine.
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