On Submission
This section lists the Agency's books that are on offer to publishers in both the UK and the US.
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Biography
The first life of the little-known SOE heroine Eileen Nearne. read more...
Major biography of the singer based on many interviewees, who have not spoken before, including band members, an ex-boyfriend and those close to Amy such as Blake’s best friend, help to define her life and solve the mysteries behind her death. read more...
The Ultimate Book of Impostors tells the stories of the boldest and most notorious impostors of the past 500 years. read more...
Using not just exclusive insights from those who know him, but - uniquely - those of qualified psychotherapists, this title gets under the skin of one of the most colourful and controversial comedians of the 21st century to reveal the real Russell and what truly motivates his behaviour. read more...
Biography of the Scottish aristocrat giving a new insight in the Rudolph Hess mission. read more...
Burma’s Spring follows the journey of an undercover journalist as she witnesses Burma’s emergence from military dictatorship to undreamed of freedom read more...
A biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley's first wife and important influence on his writing. read more...
A psychological study of Richard 111 based on new evidence from the recent archaeological discovery of Richard’s body in a Leicester car park. read more...
Rasputin, the Untold Story is the first study of Rasputin to draw fully on archives closed to foreign scholars before the collapse of the USSR. read more...
Biography of the mother of Anne and Mary Boleyn and grandmother of Elizabeth 1. read more...
The story of Captain Robert M. Trimble, an American hero of World War II, who laid his life on the line to help his fellow Americans to freedom, along with other expatriates stranded in Eastern Europe. read more...
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. read more...
The incredible tale of the bewitching courtesan, the Countess Valtesse de la Bigne, who clawed her way up from humble, impoverished origins to become one of the most sought-after and glamorous women in Paris read more...
This groundbreaking new book explores the many rewarding relationships that the writer Oscar Wilde enjoyed with a series of fascinating and accomplished women throughout his life. read more...
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.
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Drawing on fresh primary material, Deborah McDonald tells the story of Moura Budberg- adventuress, secret agent and lover of H G Wells and Maxim Gorky. read more...
Fiction
Edgy chick lit, in which fearless war correspondent Anna travels across Helmand Province in pursuit of her story, and her man. read more...
New thriller series introducing Cal Winter assassin for an organisation known only as ‘The Firm.’ read more...
A biographical novel, based on the extraordinary life of pioneering writer, Dorothy Richardson, and set in Edwardian England. read more...
A psychological thriller set in an English village. read more...
A sequel to Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth. read more...
A gripping, old-fashioned spy thriller, in the style of John Buchan. read more...
A beautiful young girl he meets by chance in Singapore awakens troubling memories for Lim, who deliberately turned his back on love more than fifty years before. A powerful and surprising novel. read more...
An epic wartime revenge drama, which unfolds over the course of three major twentieth century conflicts. read more...
An epic crypto-thriller in the style of Dan Brown, involving the Knights Templar, Nazis, and the Ark of the Covenant. read more...
A powerful historical novel set in the tin mines of 19th century Malaya. Currently fourth favourite for the prestigious IMPAC Literary Award. read more...
When Gregory loses his job, his savings and his lodgings – in fact everything except his virginity – becoming a monk has all the makings of a sound career move... A hilarious, absurd comic novel. read more...
General
A day-by-day yearbook comprising the biographies of 366 people (plus a dog, a dishonest gorilla and a talking elephant) whose achievements, discoveries, claims to fame and marks on history have long been forgotten or else remain little-known, overlooked or under appreciated. read more...
A new and convincing solution to the worlds greatest historic mystery, Atlantis. read more...
A series of interviews with single parents who have strong real life experience of lone parenting, from teen mums through to 40-somethings who chose to go it alone, to lone parenting after the death of a partner, or relationship breakup, or falling pregnant by accident. read more...
The first in Paul Merrill’s ‘Muddle’ series, this is a hilarious spoof guide to how to survive as a modern grandparent. read more...
The second book in Paul Merrill’s ‘Muddle’ series, this is a politically incorrect, humorous guide to every aspect of fatherhood read more...
U2: The Goal is $oul will be the first unauthorised biography of U2 to document and analyse their 35-year career objectively, going beyond the myth to present a fascinating warts-and-all portrait of the Irish rock band. read more...
Combining lavish illustrations with detailed narrative and – for the first time ever in a book – interviews with her creative directors, stylists, designers and fellow artists, this title aims, through style, to decode one of the most famous pop icons of all time. read more...
A quest to discover alternative models of romance to the conventional, monogamous, 24-7, happily-ever-after fairytale. read more...
A meticulously researched book which answers the question of how man emerged from the Palaeolithic swamps, navigate his way through all that boring history stuff to become the fine specimen of masculinity he is today, by cleverly linking man’s ascent to 100 key objects. read more...
A collection of dozens of examples of tortuous reasoning, typically involving well-intentioned researchers who are blissfully unaware of the mischief they are committing. read more...
Successful businesswomen from around the world reveal exactly what changes should be made to cure the world's economic woes. read more...
A guide to how to spice up your sex life, manifest the perfect man, heal your heart, explore new levels of consciousness and embrace your own gifts and talents read more...
Earth - An Alien Enterprise focuses on unpublished or little-known contacts with aliens, the infiltration thereof, and Earth’s top-secret liaison programmes. read more...
A new look at probably the most significant UFO sighting - that at USAF bases Bentwaters and Woodbridge in Suffolk in 1980 - drawing on the testimony of two key witnesses. read more...
Heir Raising is a book of humorous cartoons which takes a wry look at parenting styles through several recognisable 'types'. read more...
An anecdotal history of the elephant, with each section telling the tale of a particular elephant, from Hattie the “best elephant in the world” to Lyuba the baby mammoth, and from Topsy, the killer elephant who was electrocuted by Thomas Edison to Hannibal’s favourite fighting elephant. read more...
Thin Wild Mercury: The Voice of Bob Dylan brings writers, poets, musicians and the world’s leading Dylan commentators together for the first ever book-length examination of the Voice of a Generation. read more...
Heads Up will tell a human story of the men and women who run our leading independent schools, lifting the curtain upon what happens behind closed doors, how Heads think, and what they seek to achieve. read more...
The Gowrie Gang is a heart-warming story of the special connection between a man and a group of primates that are often ridiculed, disrespected and even vilified as vermin read more...
The Konjac Diet is a weight loss and weight management plan that incorporates what has been described as ‘the perfect food’ – Konjac.
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Ask a Silly Question- Messages from eBay's most troublesome customer is a collection of stupidly funny and completely genuine email exchanges between the quirky Fredrick Facedass and the online sellers of eBay.
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How the methods of the Special Forces can and should be used by businesses to give companies a crucial edge in the vastly competitive corporate world. read more...
In the tradition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, shows how we are being given false ‘healthy eating’ advice by government agencies, and people who claim to be experts, with committees shot through with conflicts of interest. read more...
History
The story of seven momentous days during the attack on Pearl Harbour which is also a snapshot of the whole world during an extraordinary week in its history. read more...
A history of a house and its many famous visitors. read more...
Zero Night tells the incredible and forgotten story of the ‘first great escape’. read more...
First World War diaries compiled by author and journalist killed on first day of the Battle of the Somme. read more...
Operation Damocles tells the forgotten story of the former Nazi scientists who were recruited by Egypt in the 1950s and '60s to develop a long-range missile capable of striking Israel. read more...
The first popular history book to tell the epic story of African origin soldiers in British and American armies in their words, taken from personal journals, diaries and interviews. read more...
A history of the Royal Tour concentrating on the last sixty years and, in particular, the travels of the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Diana and Princes William and Harry. read more...
The story of the dramatic 1559 papal election which has resonances for our time. read more...
A combination of travel and history describing a journey through the lands that Caesar conquered in Gaul and Britain. read more...
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, proves conclusively that conditions in the German POW camps, every bit as ghastly as the Nazi labour camps liberated in 1945, were imposed deliberately, not merely by General Eisenhower, Commander in Chief of the Allied Forces in Europe, but by President Roosevelt and his Secretary of State Henry Morgenthau. read more...
The Companion to British History is the largest single-volume encyclopaedia of British History ever written, and the only one compiled by a single author rather than a committee. It has run to three editions (two by Longcross and one by Routledge) and the fourth is under preparation. read more...
The sceret Holocaust diary of a man who survived for six years in three of the Nazi regime’s most infamous concentration camps. read more...
The absorbing and untold story of the development of CIA memoirs. read more...
An examination of British Prime Ministers's relationship with the Secret Services and their use and misuse of intelliegence information. read more...
A history of Russia through the prism of the Bolshoi Theatre by the Independent's Moscow correspondent. read more...
An account of the personal experiences of the Soviet, British and American liberators of he concentration camps and how they reacted to the horrors they witnessed. read more...
Memoir
The memoirs of Joella Holliday dubbed 'the world's youngest transsexual' . read more...
Jacky Donovan’s humorous account of her life as a Dominatrix – a “dom rom com” - recounts her sessions with her submissive clients set against the backdrop of her transition from frumpy housewife to becoming one of London’s premier Dominatrixes read more...
The memoirs ofTom Watkins, a real life Ace Ventura, who runs Europe’s largest, and most successful, pet detective agency with 14 uniformed staff, a fleet of cars, a 24 hour missing pet hotline, and 100 requests a day for Tom’s help to find their lost loved one. read more...
A memoir of nine years as an internet webcam porn star. read more...
The memoirs of the former Big Brother contestant giving her side of the story of her affairs with comedian Russell Brand and footballers Jermain Defoe and Ryan Giggs. read more...
The memoirs of the intersex Joella Holliday. read more...
The bizarre and hilarious story of the launch of ZOO magazine and the surreal events that followed. read more...
In Art Hunter, Chris Marinello, General Counsel and Executive Director of the Art Loss Register (ALR), takes us behind the scenes to show how heisters, corrupt art dealers, opportunists and terrorists and drugs dealers have stolen and sold or exchanged priceless works of art by Monet, Manet, Picasso, Cezanne and Klimt, amongst many others – not to mention countless priceless antiquities. read more...
The memoirs of Vikie Shanks left to bring up seven children, all on the autism spectrum and two with cerebral palsy, after her husband committed suicide. read more...
Bonnie tells in graphic and humorous detail how selling her body enables a young woman too turn around a life of unhappiness and vulnerability to become a happy and self-confident young business- woman. read more...
The Family is the incredible true story of a girl who was born and raised in one of the world's most notorious religious cults. read more...
Set against a backdrop of exotic locations, featuring a cast of zany, uninhibited characters, Cabin Fever offers an exhilarating, and often hilarious, account of what it’s like to be a stewardess in the modern world of air travel.
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The memoirs of owner of the North’s most successful escort agency. read more...
The memoirs of pop star Michelle Heaton. read more...
Nurse's diary from nursing through the London Blitz to Normandy with the Army Nursing Corps in June 1944. read more...
Popular Science
Backdoor Science explores the science of everyday life , taking a tour round the house and picking out the fascinating and surprising scientific explanations behind a variety of very common (and often entertainingly mundane) household phenomena, from gurgling drains and squeaky floorboards to rubbery custard and shiny shoes. read more...
Black brain, white brain challenges the idea that intelligence is influenced by racial origin. read more...
Gender Bender: men, women and evolutionary psychologists sets out to show that male and female minds do not emerge from different planets and that our emotional and intellectual capacities are molded more by culture than biology. read more...
Reference
The Trivia Atlas of the British Isles is a vast general knowledge gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. read more...
The Ultimate Guide to Filming Locations in New York City presents 500 unique locations that have starred in 100 diverse films from the last 50 years where New York is as big a star as the actors and actresses who appear in them. read more...
Describes scores of key sites at which significant espionage events have unfolded, explaining what happened and – as far as is known – why it did. read more...
The Cool Guide to Edinburgh reveals the most stylish, coolest places in the city for visitors who want to discover what other guidebooks just don’t seem to cover. read more...
A look at over forty types of building and how their histories can be researched. read more...
