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
Churchill : The Radical Chancellor
James Brockhurst
An account of Winston Churchill's time as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Pamela Hartwell
Harriet Cullen
Biography of Pamela Hartwell , a remarkable figure of 20th century social and political history.
The Women Impressionists
Catherine Hewitt
An unprecedented group portrait of the four most prominent female Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès and Marie Bracquemond.
Fiction
A Class of Spy
Duncan Falconer
The Hunt for Red October meets Tinker, Tailer in this thrilling espionage drama set at the height of the Cold War when one wrong move by either side can have catastrophic consequences.
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.
Husbands, Sons, and Lovers
Sooni Shroff-Gander
Vivienne and Richard have it all: a fulfilling marriage, three successful children, and a gorgeous villa in Tuscany where they always spend their holidays but the long, luminous summer days and balmy nights in the Chianti hide secrets and lies, betrayals and deceptions. And nothing is as it seems.
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.
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.
Sex, Murder and Videotape: The untold story of Alfred Bloomingdale, his mistress Vicki Morgan, and the sex tapes that almost cost Reagan re-election
Bridget Arsenault
An investigation into the murder of Alfred Bloomingdale's mistress Vicki Morgan who had secrets bigger than Watergate.
History
A Fragile Fanaticism: Heretics, Renegades and Witchcraft in the Crusades
Steve Tibble
A Fragile Fanaticism is a book about the forgotten and discarded people of the crusades.
Arm of Eve: Investigating The Thames Torso Killer and his four murders
Sarah Bax Horton
Sarah Bax Horton explores the contemperaneous police investigation into the Thames Torso Killer.
Armed and Deadly
Clifford Thurlow,
Kevin Healy
The memoirs of Kevin Healy who spent 18 years on the streets of London as an armed police officer, the longest serving, most experienced and one of the most highly decorated Operational Firearms Commanders in the history of the Met’s elite SO19.
Assassins and Templars: Death Cults of the Crusades
Steve Tibble
Assassins and Templars’ tells an almost unknown story - how two of the medieval world's most extraordinary and high profile organisations formed a shockingly bloodthirsty but entirely unrecognised 'partnership of death'.
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.
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.
Killer Stones
Richard Wallace
Killer Stones uncovers the murders, mischief and cold-blooded malevolence behind the most notorious jewels in history.
Sex and the Holy City: Courtesans and Crusaders
Steve Tibble
Sex and the Holy City is a book about passion and illicit sex in the most unlikely of places - the medieval Holy Land.
Spice: The sixteenth century contest that shaped the modern world
Roger Crowley
Spice 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’.
Stalin’s Looted Art
Ian Senior
An account of how , acting on Stalin’s orders, at the end of the Second World War, soviet trophy brigades looted about two million works of art from Germany and sent them to Russia.
The Decline and Fall of the British Raj
Harshan Kumarasingham
A comprehensive account that covers the rich and evocative history of the final decades of the Raj.
The King's Loot
Richard Wallace
The King's Loot reveals the full extent of King Edward Vlll’s looting of jewellery, artworks, furniture and priceless heirlooms from the Royal Collection, and the historic Crown conventions reinforced by successive British governments and constitutional experts he exploited to do it.
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.
To Catch A Spy: Margaret Thatcher, Peter Wright & the Spycatcher Affair: The Secret History of A Very English Espionage Farce
Tim Tate
Drawing on thousands of pages of court transcripts – many of them never previously published – the contents of still-secret British Government files, and original interviews with many of the key players, To Catch A Spy is the story of Peter Wright’s obsession to uncover Russian spies, both real and imagined, his belated determination to reveal the truth - and the lengths to which the British Government would go to silence him.
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
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.
Memoir
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.
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.
Facing the Music: From Her Majesty’s Palaces to Her Majesty’s Prisons
Alex Wood
In Facing the Music: From Her Majesty’s Palaces to Her Majesty’s Prisons, Alex tells how he and a fellow inmate plotted a multi-million-pound cyber fraud racket from behind bars, which they then executed immediately upon their release – and were both subsequently caught in a massive undercover police sting.
Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist.
Rebecca Myers
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.
Odyssey Moscow: A Westerner’s Encounter with the Dark Heart of Putin’s Russian Justice System
Dan Smith,
Michael Calvey
This is Calvey’s extraordinary story – that of the most high-profile Western business figure to be put through Russia’s prison system.
One Foot In The Mafia
Douglas Wight,
Lisanne Meadowcroft
Groomed and owned by a powerful crime boss … the remarkable true story of one woman’s escape from the Mafia aKer a four-year ordeal.
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
Blindspots: How Looking Without Seeing Shapes Your Life and Determines Your Destiny
David Lewis
The first book to explain the psychology and neuroscience behind looking without seeing and seeing without looking.
Enjoy?: The puzzle of modern pleasure
Chris Woodford
From sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll to dance, play, and comedy, Enjoy? lifts the lid on our minds to explore 10 forms of modern pleasure and the fascinating science behind them
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.