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
Behind Golden Doors: the life of Princess Elizabeth
Jane Dismore
The story of Queen Elizabeth 11's early life
Beloved Unicorn
Peter Thompson
The thrilling story of the love affair between the Russian revolutionary Alexander Kerensky and Lydia Ellen ‘Nellé’ Tritton, an Australian journalist and poet.
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.
Elizabeth Harrower: rediscovering a lost writer
Amy Ripley
A biography of one of Australia’s most important postwar writers, very nearly forgotten by the literary world.
King of Hearts: Edward VII and the Women in his Life
Catharine Arnold
Gossipy, anecdotal and peopled with unforgettable characters, King of Hearts sees Catharine Arnold cast an amused and tolerant eye over Edward’s amorous adventures in a hugely enjoyable, gossipy book peopled with unforgettable characters.
Oil Burns the Hands: The Life and Times of Calouste Gulbenkian
Jonathan Conlin
Given unprecedented and exclusive access to over 600 meters of Gulbenkian's private correspondence, Jonathan Conlin pieces together the story of this remarkable Armenian deal-maker and business architect for the first time
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The first biography for over twenty years of Prince George, Duke of Kent – the Queen's uncle - which, drawing on much unpublished material, reassesses the reputation of George V’s most handsome, glamorous and cultured son.
Renoir's Dancer
Catherine Hewitt
Biography of Suzanne Valadon , considered the Impressionists’ most beautiful model, who gave birth to an illegitimate son, the painter Maurice Utrillo, when she was just eighteen and enjoyed affairs with countless painters and composer Erik Satie.
Fiction
A Bride for Sunil
Joyce Mackenzie
A tale of stormy relationships in the melting pot of post-colonial India.
A Journey to the Centre of the Moon
Alan Baker
A sequel to Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
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.
Dark Water
Simon Thould
An action-packed thriller in which former soldier Alex Rafter has to use his army skills in a race against time to find a girl missing in the New Forest.
Hollywood Hang Ten
Eve Goldberg
When PI Ryan Zorn’s investigation of a missing child turns into a case of blackmail and murder, Ryan is drawn deep into Hollywood’s hidden past — a past that involves the 1950s anti-communist witch hunts and the repression of closeted gay stars.
In-Laws and Outlaws
Kate Fulford
A shocking, hilarious novel in which a young woman struggles to deal with her fiancé's hostile mother.
Jack Was Here
Christopher Bardsley
A traumatised ex-soldier is tasked with recovering Jack Kerr, a nineteen year-old backpacker who has inexplicably disappeared from the beaches of southern Thailand.
Kidon
Bob Dickinson
An epic wartime revenge drama, which unfolds over the course of three major twentieth century conflicts.
Mishenka
Daniel Tammet
Mishenka is a fascinating account of the age-old confrontation between thought and feeling, art and science – at a watershed moment in the history of a nation, and the Royal Game.
Orca Rising
Chris Hannon
A YA novel about a high-achieving teenager who gets recruited into a freelance spy agency, and the question of whether he can align his morals to their dubious methods.
Redferne Lane
Sarah Scholefield
A romantic, reading-group novel about love, loyalty and loss.
Rickshaw
David McGrath
Rickshaw is a gritty, comic tale of London nightlife and redemption from David McGrath.
The Art of Letting Go
Chloe Banks
A psychological thriller set in an English village.
The Devil's Work
Dominic Adler
A hard-boiled thriller in the style of Lee Child, in which reluctant assassin Cal Winter finds himself in Africa investigating an MI6 mole.
The Hickory Stick
Ted Bocking
A nostalgic tale of a rural Victorian policeman, based on the diaries of a real figure.
The Unrivalled Transcendence of Willem J. Gyle
James Dixon
A powerful state-of-the-nation novel. Willem is a giant of a man, a labourer recently laid off and made homeless, who must come to grips with the new world into which he has been thrust, as he navigates the underworld of Scotland’s homeless communities.
General
F is for France: A Curious Cabinet of French Wonders'
Piu Marie Eatwell
F is for France is a compendium of everything you didn’t know about the world’s favourite tourist destination: facts and insights that are astonishing, bizarre, or hitherto well-kept secrets of the francophone world, revealed to anglophone readers for the first time.
Serious Money: Exploring Plutocratic London
Caroline Knowles
Serious Money tracks the rich down in their homes and neighbourhoods as the author explores a vortex of wealth stretching from Virginia Water, through Richmond, Chelsea, Knightsbridge and Mayfair.
History
A popular history of the Jacobites
Desmond Seward
A popular history of Jacobitism.
Avec les Hommes: Stories from the French Foreign Legion
Nicholas Valldejuli
The story of the French Foreign Legion over the last thirty years as told by fifteen legionnaires representing seven nationalities.
Dark Secrets and Silences: Allied Intelligence and the Holocaust
Helen Fry
Firmly places on record what was known about the Holocaust and other atrocities by the Allies, and when and asks why so little was done to address the issue until 1945.
Seven Days of Infamy
Nicholas Best
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.
The Accidental Agent
Phil Craig,
C J Jenner
Based on a wealth of previously classified documents, this page-turning story of spies, high politics and covert cover-ups, casts fascinating new light upon one of the most renowned turning points in World War II.
The Duchess of Manchester's Tiara
Alina Garcia-Lapuerta
The extraordinary story of Consuelo Yznaga a Cuban-American who became the Duchess of Manchester.
The Plots Against Hitler
Danny Orbach
The story of the anti-Nazi underground in the German army and its various attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler
The Stone Crusher: The True Story of the Kleinmann Family’s Fight for Survival in the Holocaust
Jeremy Dronfield
A unique tale in the Holocaust genre: a story of tragedy and horror but also an adventure, an edge-of-seat read in the style of Dronfield’s previous bestselling WWII book, Beyond the Call, with a similar uplifting emotional heart – human love and dedication amid the horror of war.
The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German code-breaking 1935-‘45
Christian Jennings
The Third Reich is Listening is the inside story of the science, the successes and failures of Germany’s codebreaking and signals intelligence operations from 1935 to the end of the war, told through the eyes of ten different characters.
Trieste ’45 : First Battle of the Cold War
Christian Jennings
Trieste ‘45 is the story of one year in one city as the Cold War begins, told through the interweaving lives of twelve different characters.
Warmongers
Roger Howard
Warmongers mixes historical fact with ‘what if’ and ‘what could have been done differently’ to look at why leaders go to war.
Winston Churchill’s Great Game: How Nineteenth Century Grand Strategy Shaped the Twentieth Century’s Cold War
Warren Dockter
Winston Churchill’s Great Game examines Winston Churchill’s role in the Cold War and will show that his attitudes and policies relating to Soviet Russia during the Second World War and Cold War were predicated on his understanding of the Victorian geopolitics of the ’great game’ in his youth
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.
LARPing with the Otherkin
Lucy Feltham
In a bid to step outside of her comfort zone and take a holiday from her corporate life as a 28-year-old Partner in a headhunting firm, Lucy Feltham spends a year investigating 26 subcultures, from Aristocrats, Battle Re-enactors and Circus Performers to Xtreme Sport Fanatics, Yogi's and 'Zeitgeist' Political Activists.
Starfish
Tom Ray,
Nicola Ray
A powerful love story about the triumph of the human spirit against adversity after a man suffers quadruple amputation after contracting septicaemia.
Under the Rainbow
Lynne Barrett-Lee,
Matt Deighton
Under the Rainbow is an intensely personal story, one not so much about a man and his dog, but about a dog – a very special dog – and how she helped a man, through helping others, find new meaning in his life.