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
'Passion and Power: The lives and loves of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough
Amy Ripley
A joint biography of two aristocratic sisters - Anne the future wife of Ian Fleming and Laura later Duchess of Marlborough.
Allan Pinkerton and His Legacy
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
The life and legacy of Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency,
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.
Edna Clarke Hall: A Portrait
Charlotte Peacock
This first, full-blown biography of Edna Clarke Hall re-establishes her as one of the most original British artists of the early twentieth century and reveals the darker story beneath her struggle to remain true to her art.
Playing Pilgrims: : The Real Little Women
Kristina West
Playing Pilgrims: The Real Little Women tells the stories of all four of the Alcott girls on whom the fiction is based: theatrical Anna, who longed for domestic happiness as a wife and mother but yet never forgot her longing for the stage; Louisa, the writer, who worked at both children’s stories and her ‘blood-and-thunder’ scandalous novels to make money for the ‘pathetic family’ who were living in poverty; Lizzie, the musical girl and the ‘angel in the house’, whose battles with illness were so faithfully recounted in Little Women; and May, the artist, whose flight to Europe to pursue her dreams resulted in both happiness and tragedy.
Prince Charles: : The Oral Biography,
Deborah Hart Strober,
Gerald Strober
Prince Charles: The Oral Biography, will appeal to afficianados of the British crown as well as to a wider readership interested in learning about the life of one, who longer than any other in his nation's history, has awaited the royal destiny to which he was born
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.
Sarko and Carla:: The Fall
Peter Allen,
Nabila Ramdani
Sarko and Carla: The Fall is the inside story of how the gilded life of President Nicolas Sarkozy and First Lady Carla Bruni – the most famous power couple in France – descended into allegations of sleaze and criminality and the prospect of multiple prison sentences.
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.
The Goat Herder from Hezbollah
Allan Slater
A gripping thriller which takes us from the Beqaa Valley to Tel Aviv and from Damascus to Buenos Aires and beyond, as we see the global reach of Hezbollah and the intelligence agencies determined to thwart it.
The Tangled Web
Harry McCallion
Legal thriller set in Liverpool.
The Temple
Patrick Dillon
The Temple is a near future novel set in a dystopian London facing its last night.
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.
To Catch a Prince
David McClure
t’s 2025 and Charles III’s shaky new monarchy is soon under attack from a mysterious terrorist cell which pulls off the daring kidnapping of Prince William.
We Shall Pass: Love and death at the heart of the Spanish Civil War
Clifford Thurlow
A novel set agaiunst the Spanish Civil War.
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.
Target Taiwan : How China could make war on the West
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
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.
COVID-19: The Oral History
Deborah Hart Strober,
Gerald Strober
In COVID-19: The Oral History, Deborah and Gerald Strober through substantive interviews with a wide cross section of involved international key players, will provide a comprehensive, objective account of the trajectory of the pandemc from is beginnings to December 31, 2022, the date the co-authors will submit their manuscript.
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’.
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.
Poison:: Love, Heresy and Death at the Court of Louis XIV
Josephine Wilkinson
For the first time in fifty years, this book will tell the story of the Affair of the Poisons with Athénaïs as the central figure.
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 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.
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 Love with Younger Men
Katreen Hardt
In Love with Younger Men explores the relationship between older women and younger men.
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’.
Life in the Boarding Bubble
Andrew Cunningham
Life in the Boarding Bubble is an entertaining, sometimes shocking account of Andrew Cunningham’s 30-plus years in the ‘Boarding Bubble’: the privileged world of Britain’s top senior boarding schools.
Playing to Lose
Ariel Anderssen
A memoir detailing the story of a Jehovah’s Witness child who believed the world was about to end, but who grew up to be one of the best-known BDSM models in the world.
Whitehead’s Grove
Beazie Nickols
Whitehead’s Grove combines universal themes – love, loss, personal development – with an unflinching look at how a life of financial and social privilege, whether in southwest London or expat Bangkok, can rob individuals, especially girls, of the robustness that every person requires to be true to themselves and to even to have a sense of themselves to which to be true.
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
Animals Passions: : Everything You Wanted To Know About The Sex Life of Animals
Kieron Connolly
Drawing on the latest published research, Animal Passions is a lively, fascinating and accessible exploration of how birds, the bees, even the educated fleas really do do it.
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.
Microbial Planet:: How bacteria hold the key to planetary balance
Peter Forbes
Microbial Planet tells the hidden story of how microbes – bacteria and other single-celled organisms – evolved all of the machinery of life later to be used in plants and animals, and created the oxygenic atmosphere without which mobile creatures – ie animals – could not have evolved.