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
Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur
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.
Mistresses: sex and scandal at the court of Charles II'
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.
The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves
Andrew Lownie
From British high society to the South of France, from the battlefields of Burma to the Viceroy's House, The Mountbattens is a rich and filmic story of a powerful partnership, revealing the truth behind a carefully curated legend.
The Peer and the Gangster:: A Very British Cover-Up
Dan Smith
Drawing upon recently released MI5 files, government papers, extensive interviews, and a wide array of contemporary reports and secondary sources, the inside story of Lord Boothby's relationship with the Krays.
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.
To Kill a Queen: the last days of Marie Antoinette
Linda Porter
To Kill a Queen’ will reveal the full story of Marie Antoinette’s last year, based on new material drawn from private archives in the UK and seldom-used French and American sources.
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.
Cameras and Kaharis’
Alex Outhwaite
'Cameras and Kaharis’ is the behind the scenes story of presenting a TV show across India, documenting the amusing and often outright bizarre occurrences along the way.
Covidiots: Ultimate Collection of the Dumbest, Weirdest and Most Ridiculous Coronavirus Stories
Paul Merrill
The ultimate guide to hundreds of the wackiest, dumbest and most ridiculous stories of covidiocy.
Dreadful Estate Agent Photos
Andy Donaldson
A sequel to the best-sellling Terrible Estate Agent Photos.
Every Breath You Take
Ian Williams
The first book to describe in detail the building of the world’s first digital totalitarian state.
The Coronavirus Pandemic
Hugh Pym
The inside story of the coronavirus pandemic by the BBC's health correspondent.
The New Opium: Capitalism, Mental Health and the Sedation of a Nation
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.
History
Black Victorians:: A Hidden History
John Woolf
With new archives and little-known stories, this book merges ‘Black history’ and ‘Victorian history’ by telling Victorian history through Black lives, resurrecting hidden stories and revising our understanding of the Victorian Age.
Bombshell
Mike Rothmiller,
Douglas Thompson
‘Bombshell’ tells the definitive story of the death of Marilyn Monroe at the hand of another.
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.
Fugitives : Cold War Nazis in the Middle East
Danny Orbach
Using original documents from hitherto closed archives, this book will uncover the story of the Nazi diehards who settled in Egypt and Syria, and the role they played in Cold War espionage, arms trafficking and conflicts around the region.
Spying on the Royals: Intelligence, Security and the Monarchy from Victoria to Diana
Richard J. Aldrich,
Rory Cormac
Spying and the Royals uncovers the remarkable relationship between the Royal Family and the intelligence community since the reign of Queen Victoria.
Syndrome K: How Italy resisted the Final Solution
Christian Jennings
Drawing on original archive material in Italy, Germany, the Vatican, Switzerland, the U.K and U.S, Syndrome K tells the complete story of the planning, execution, and resistance to the Final Solution in Italy
The Scourging Angel
Benedict Gummer
A revisionist account of one of the most famous pandemics in history.
Memoir
Born Bound
Angela Findlay
Born Bound 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’.
In Love with Younger Men
Katreen Hardt
In Love with Younger Men explores the relationship between older women and younger men.
Jetstream Girl: Secrets of a Private Flight Attendant
Nicola Stow
Featuring a cast of colourful, quirky characters, Jetstream Girl: 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.
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
Edge of Mysteries: Discovery of the Immune System
Shantha Perera
Recounts the story of immunology, beginning with the first written record of the concept of immunity in 430 BCE, through the ensuing centuries that gave the world vaccines, organ transplantation, novel therapies for cancer and now the understanding and tools to tackle the pandemic virus.
The Mouse’s Promise: What the Laboratory Mouse Can Teach Us About the Modern Eugenics Dilemma
Alan Yang
The history of laboratory mice offering an entertaining, informative, yet unexplored perspective on the modern eugenics dilemma.