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.
Louis XIV: The Gift of God
Josephine Wilkinson
Louis XIV: The Gift of God is the first popular biography of Louis XIV since 2004.
No Ordinary Woman: 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The first biography for over twenty years of Prince George, Duke of Kent – the Queen's uncle - which, drawing on much unpublished material, reassesses the reputation of George V’s most handsome, glamorous and cultured son.
Princess: The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II
Jane Dismore
The story of Queen Elizabeth 11's early life
Fiction
A Collar for Cerberus
Matt Stanley
A thoughtful, inspirational novel, which tells the story of a callow young graduate who chauffeurs an irascible old Nobel laureate on an epic trip around Greece.
A Drowning Detective
John Williams
A thoughtful crime novel set in Japan.
A Lot of Nerve
Ian McCulloch
A crime novel about Jones, a Londoner living on his wits, who finds himself swept up in events beyond his control. After being blackmailed by MI5, he becomes embroiled in the lives of two notorious and dangerous gangsters.
All My Colours
David Quantick
A horror story about a man who remembers a book that nobody else has heard of, with dire consequences.
Blood Brothers
Nick Pope
An action thriller set in London, in the Tom Clancy / Chris Ryan mould, in which an SAS soldier and a former jihadist are forced to work together to prevent a devastating terror attack.
Corkscrew: The highly improbable tale of a professional wine buyer
Peter Stafford-Bow
A comic crime romp set in the wine trade, stylistically sitting somewhere between Christopher Brookmyre and Lucky Jim.
Diary of an Adorable Fat Girl
Bernice Bloom
A warm, affectionate, and very funny romantic comedy about a woman’s struggle to lose weight and find love, similar in style to Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series.
Staying On
C M Taylor
A bittersweet comedy-drama set amongst the Brexit-threatened English expats of Spain.
The Brideship Wife
Leslie Howard
From England to the gold fields of British Columbia, this is the story of one woman's quest for independence and adventure in the "modern world" of 1862.
The Frontier Society: Volume One – The American Condor
Kieran Lynn
An action-packed middle-grade adventure in which 12-year-old Londoner Sam Eaglestone and New Yorker Madeline Pierce travel together through time to save lost artefacts for museums.
The King's Messenger
Nicholas Best
An exciting thriller based on one of the first acts of the Second World War, the Jablunka Incident, which was a battle for control of the strategically crucial Jablunka railway tunnel.
The Tyre
Christian J Dubois,
Liz C Huntley
When a huge new tyre falls from a passing truck, it changes the life of a poor untouchable in ways he could never have foreseen.
Woodcutter
Shaun Baines
A contemporary crime thriller set in Newcastle Upon Tyne - some family trees are meant to fall.
Wormwood: (US title: The Burial Place)
Larry Enmon
A gritty mystery in which two police detectives investigate an apparent kidnapping.
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.
Men of Confidence: The Untold Escape of American Prisoners-of-War From Hitler’s Holocaust
Mark Felton
Men of Confidence is the story of how a small group of American soldiers, led by a charismatic but reluctant leader, tried to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a diabolical Nazi plan to turn US prisoners-of-war into concentration camp slaves.
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
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.
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
Choices: A Practical Guide to the Science of Choosing Better
David Lewis
Based on over a decade of original research, conducted by Lewis and other scientists at Mindlab International, the book will explain in non-technical language how and why we make choices, the unconscious factors operating behind the scenes which determine those choices and their vulnerability outside influences.
