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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
Anne Boleyn
Josephine Wilkinson
Making extensive use of original documents and drawing on the latest academic research, Anne Boleyn shows her to have been much less in control of her own fate than tradition allows.
Centurion of the Inner Circle: The Secret Service of Ronnie Sinclair: 1889-1988
Ben Wright
Biography of British intelligence agent ‘Reginald Teague-Jones, almost entirely overlooked in intelligence history, placing him where he deserves to be: at the heart of the British counter-intelligence effort against numerous adversaries during the first half of the Twentieth Century.
Churchill : The Progressive Chancellor
James Brockhurst
An account of Winston Churchill's time as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Traitor's Odyssey: Martha Dodd, her Circle and Soviet Espionage in America
Brendan McNally
Tells Martha Dodd’s full story: from her many dalliances among Hitler’s inner circle, to her work in Soviet spy rings in America, to her and her husband’s role in Henry Wallace’s disastrous 1948 presidential campaign, her years under FBI surveillance, her escape, and lonely exile and death in Prague.
Fiction
Café No Problem
Anthony Brettell Lodge
A literary thriller and murder mystery set inside the ramshackle guts and glory of a huge UN peacekeeping mission.
Times Like These
Lynne Barrett-Lee
With a cast of characters that include an ageing rock star, a malamute husky called Alaska, some campaigning Bag Ladies and a hamster who goes by the name Mark Rothko, Times Like these is a comedy of romantic errors that examines what happens when walls start coming down; walls that are both actual and emotional.
We Shall Pass: Love and death at the heart of the Spanish Civil War
Clifford Thurlow
A novel set agaiunst the Spanish Civil War.
When You Were Mine
Rosie Lewis
When a single mother takes on the tech company responsible for her mother's death, the digital leaches into reality, with heartbreaking consequences.
General
Breathless: How air pollution became the world's biggest killer
Chris Woodford
Breathless is a compelling guide to one of the 21st century’s most pressing global issues.
Every Breath You Take: China's New Tyranny
Ian Williams
The first book to describe in detail the building of the world’s first digital totalitarian state.
Man at the Door
Duncan Robertson
A re-examination of the case of David Jeffs suggesting he was innocent of the murder of Robert Troyan.
Security
Mike Croll
Security explains how security developed into a $250 billion global business and how our insatiable appetite for security will create a world where everything is monitored and controlled.
Sedated: : How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis
James Davies
The first popular book of its kind to illuminate how the grand economic reforms of our times have corrupted how we now understand and manage our emotional suffering, leading to worsening mental health outcomes and disability overall.
Stupid Bankers
Paul Kilduff
Stupid Bankers features the worst disasters in banking ever and the people who made them.
The Fire of the Dragon: China’s new Cold War
Ian Williams
A timely, accessible and up-to-date study of how the threat of war with the West over Taiwan has massively increased under Xi Jinping.
The Great Zoo Myth
Helena Horton
Helena's shocking investigation shatters the illusion that zoos are there for conservation, and with interviews with celebrities, campaigners and zoo insiders she tells the fascinating, if painful, story of the modern zoo - and whether it will exist in years to come.
The Wuhan Lab Leak: the conspiracies, the cover-ups and the fatal consequences
Barry O’Halloran
The shocking story of how China covered-up, supressed scientific information, and deliberately lied about the lab leak at Wuhan.
History
A History of Communism From Theory to Practice
Sean McMeekin
Blending narrative with cutting-edge scholarship, A History of Communism From Theory to Practice will revolutionize our understanding of the evolution of Communism.
Code Orange: What the Allies knew about the Holocaust, and what they did about it
Christian Jennings
What exactly did Great Britain and the United States, as well as their European allies and neutral countries, know, or not know, about the ongoing Holocaust? And what exactly did the Allies do, or not do about it? And how, when and why? Code Orange is the inside account, the first book written in English that brings together all elements of the story.
Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans: : The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49
Daniel Cowling
Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans recounts the political and military history of the occupation alongside compelling, heartwarming, and, at times, scandalous tales of life amid the ruins of the Third Reich.
Empires of the Wind: The contest for the spice trade that shaped the modern world
Roger Crowley
Empires of the Wind is the story of six crucial decades, 1511-1571, from the Portuguese conquest of Malacca to the founding of Manila – a defining moment, when the world ‘went global’.
Fighting Retreat: : Winston Churchill and India
Walter Reid
This study of his involvement with India reveals him at his worst, malign, cruel, obstructive and selfish.
Ghosts of the Rhine
Duncan Wade,
Tim Tate
Ghosts of the Rhine, meticulously researched from eye-witness accounts of survivors, official documentation from American, British, French and Soviet archives, newspaper articles, diaries and personal interviews, shows how conditions in the German POW camps, were every bit as ghastly as the Nazi labour camps liberated in 1945.
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich
Urs Brunner,
Julia Schrammel,
NIgel Jones
At once a deconstruction and reconstruction of a hidden history, ‘Kitty’s Salon’ is a gripping true story of historical detection that sheds a harsh light on one of the darkest last secrets of the Third Reich.
Nazis, Communists and Spies: The Secret History of Germany After Hitler
Luke Daly-Groves
Nazis, Communists and Spies is the first narrative history of occupied Germany to focus on espionage, a secret history of shootouts, deception, torture, murder, Nazis, Communists, soldiers and spies.
The Klan: An American History
Kristofer Allerfeldt
Based on twenty years of research, a history of the Ku Klux Klan from foundation to the present day.
The Men Behind the Man Who Shot J.F.K.
Jonathan Hainsworth
On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Assassination of J.F.K., this will be the first book to bring the late Loran Hall and his fellow plotters to account.
The Spy War Against Hitler 1939-41 : The International Effort to Watch the Third Reich
R T Howard
A revisionist account of how British Intelligence worked closely with the exiled governments that the Poles, Czechs and others ran from Paris and then London and the intelligence services of some neutral countries, such as the United States, Switzerland, Spain, Vichy France, Sweden and Portugal in their fight against Nazi Germany.
Memoir
A Shift Inside: : Diaries of a Forensic Psychologist
Rachel Rose
The memoir of a young, female, forensic psychologist who, bruised by her own childhood, enters the gritty world of a male maximum-security prison and delivers therapy to some of the most dangerous, damaged and deviant offenders in the prison system.
Above and Beyond: Secrets of a Private Flight Attendant
Nicola Stow
Featuring a cast of colourful, quirky characters, Above and Beyond: Secrets of a Private Flight Attendant 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.
Bloodied but Unbowed
Bronwyn Royce
A mother's memoir of her soldier son who lost both legs in an IED explosion.
Cold Water: The Swimmer’s Tale
Chris Granlund
Cold Water: The Swimmer’s Tale is the story of an attempt to swim in the same pond every day for 365 days even as the wind howls, snow falls and icicles form on the steps down into the water.
Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue
Kris Hollington,
Peter Everett
The memoirs of the Superintendent of a mortuary now optiond for a drama series.
In My Grandfather’s Shadow: A lost story of war, trauma and the legacy of silence
Angela Findlay
In My Grandfather’s Shadow charts the journey Angela makes to discover the truth about her German roots. Using the memories, letters and memoirs of three generations of her own family as a scaffold on which to hang the bigger picture of Germany’s war story, Angela uncovers the ‘history of the losers’.
Kintsugi: The Art of Precious Scars
Katy Weitz,
Julia Engelhorn
Julia’s inspiring story of how she put herself back together again after being broken apart by unthinkable loss - the murder of two of her children by their father.
Military History
Anatomy of a Massacre: : How the SS got away with war crimes in Italy.
Christian Jennings
From Tuscany to Rome and to the modern-day streets of Hamburg, Anatomy of a Massacre tells the story of the massacre at Sant’Anna di Stazzema, and the 75-year international failure to bring the killers to justice.
Popular Science
Flaws of Nature: A guide to the outer reaches of evolution
Andy Dobson
Drawing on scientific research in topics from ecology and palaeontology to sexual selection and genetics, this book takes the reader on the little-travelled journey of evolutionary eccentricities.