Current Submissions
This section lists the Agency's books that are on offer to publishers in the UK and the US.
Book rights available in the UK
Book rights available in the US
Biography
Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time
Michael Du Preez,
Jeremy Dronfield
The fullest, most authoritative biography yet of this pioneering, convention-defying woman – a brilliant medical professional and social reformer - who chose to live her life as a man.
Loose Ladies
Linda Porter
The story of the women who shared Charles 11's bed and their influence on the politics and cultural life of the reign.
Painting like a Man : Rosa Bonheur, France’s Greatest Painter of Animals
Catherine Hewitt
Biography of perhaps the greatest painter of animals France had ever seen and the first woman to be made an Officier de la Légion d’honneur.
Prince George: Duke of Kent
Glyn Gowans
The first biography for over twenty years of Prince George, Duke of Kent – the Queen's uncle - which, drawing on much unpublished material, reassesses the reputation of George V’s most handsome, glamorous and cultured son.
General
The Queen's True Worth
David McClure
Drawing on recently-unearthed state papers and interviews with palace insiders, The Queen's True Worth is full of fascinating new insights into the Queen’s finances .
History
American Detective: Leon Turrou and the Exposure of the Nazi Spy Ring in America
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
The remarkable life-story of the Polish-born FBI agent Leon Turrou detailing his role in the FBI’s war on mobsters and how he exposed the Nazi Spy Ring of 1938.
Fugitives : Cold War Nazis in the Middle East
Danny Orbach
Using original documents from hitherto closed archives, this book will uncover the story of the Nazi diehards who settled in Egypt and Syria, and the role they played in Cold War espionage, arms trafficking and conflicts around the region.
Spying on the Royals: Intelligence, Security and the Monarchy from Victoria to Diana
Richard J. Aldrich,
Rory Cormac
Spying and the Royals uncovers the remarkable relationship between the Royal Family and the intelligence community since the reign of Queen Victoria.
The Canal Busters: The First ‘Dambusters’ and the Race to Save Britain
Mark Felton
The Canal Busters is an incredible true story of a spectacular, though totally ignored and forgotten, wartime mission to strike a vital blow against Hitler’s war machine in Britain’s darkest hour, earning one of them the RAFs first Victoria Cross of the war and laying the foundations for other special missions to come, most famously the Dambusters Raid.
Memoir
Gulfstream Girl: Confessions of a Private Jet Stewardess
Nicola Stow
Featuring a cast of colourful, quirky characters, Gulfstream Girl: Confessions of a Private Jet Stewardess offers an unprecedented account of what it's really like to be a corporate flight attendant, exposing both the glamour and sinister underbelly of this mysterious industry.
Higher Than The Sun: Coming Up in the 90s Underworld
Kris Hollington
Higher Than The Sun, set in 1990s Camden Town, is a coming-of-age story featuring mega-squats, illegal music/drugs festivals, magic mushroom parties, Hell’s Angels, Hari Krishnas, Lou Reed, stabbings, overdoses, police raids, smuggling missions, break-ins, fake weddings and attempted murder.
The Ants’ Nest: Saving the lives of jihadi brides
Clifford Thurlow,
John Carney
If your teenage daughter runs off to marry a jihadi warrior and you want to bring her home, there’s only one man to call.
You Are Mine: Drugged and Held in a Secret Bunker. This is My True Story of Escape.
Isabel Eriksson
A first person account of how a young woman was kidnapped and held hostage by a young doctor who wanted her as his girlfriend.
Popular Science
Sex: The Inner Workings of Attraction, Sex, and Love
Simon LeVay
Written by a renowned sex researcher and New York Times best-selling author, Sex—The Inside Story presents ideas about sex that will engage any reader who wants more than “Second-Date Ideas That Beat Dinner and a Movie.”
Reference
Movie Moments
Kieron Connolly
Movie Moments goes behind the making of 75 of these most popular slices of cinema and tells their stories.