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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
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.
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 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The first biography for over twenty years of Prince George, Duke of Kent – the Queen's uncle - which, drawing on much unpublished material, reassesses the reputation of George V’s most handsome, glamorous and cultured son.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.
The Adventuresses: The lives 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.
Traitor King
Andrew Lownie
Traitor King, looks at the years following the abdication of Edward Vlll when the former king was kept in exile, feuding with his family over status for his wife, Wallis Simpson, and denied any real job.
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.
Murder So Foul
Larry Enmon
The third in the series of police procedurals featuring the Dallas cops Rob Soliz and Frank Pierce.
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.
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.
Defying Gravity
Steven Roughton
Defying Gravity explores the mystery and history of unique, extreme, unintentional and intentional out-of-true structures, demystifying their strange appearance, and giving an explanation for their ‘deformity.’
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.
I’m The Yorkshire Ripper
Robin Perrie
Based on a vast quantity of raw material collected from Sutcliffe himself over a period of 16 years, ‘I’m the Yorkshire Ripper’ is the compelling account of the most terrifying series of murders in British history – much of it in the killer’s own words.
Lords of Impunity: : How the United Nations Failed the World and What Can Be Done to Transform
Rasna Warah
A former United Nations insider’s account of how the world’s most influential intergovernmental body allows the most heinous crimes to take place under its watch without suffering any consequences.
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.
Rigged
Andy Verity
Rigged tells the as-yet untold story of a whole series of miscarriages of justice and a cover-up at the highest levels of the US and UK financial systems, unveiling evidence that upends the received version of the biggest scandal since the financial crash.
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.
History
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.
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.
Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club
David Bartley
The first book length portrait of what another member, the littérateur Peter Quennell called ‘a kind of early twentieth century Hellfire club’.
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.
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.
Spying on the Reich : The Cold War Against Hitler 1933-39
R T Howard
Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished British, French, German, Danish and Czech archival sources, Spying on the Reich tells the true story of the spy masters, agents, frauds and imposters who watched and monitored Hitler’s Germany before World War II.
The Bodyguard
Eleanor Fitzsimons
THe story of the Women's Social and Political Union's secretive all-woman protection unit, a group of thirty or so “brawny young women," known as "the Bodyguard".
The Fake History of the Templars
Rory MacLellan
Drawing upon the latest research, and written by an academic historian of the Templars, The Fake History of the Templars will show readers how to dismantle the myths around the order step by step, looking at the arguments pseudo-histories make and the sources they cite before showing the holes in each of them.
The Frontier Below: Risks, Rivalries and Inventions in Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater
Jeff Maynard
The first book to comprehensively tell the story of the human quest to go deeper underwater.
The Met: A People's History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jonathan Conlin
The first scholarly, single-author survey of a 150-year old institution of global renown, The Met is the story of the people behind and in front of the familiar objects.
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.
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’.
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.
Hot Pursuit
Nicola Stow,
Matt Calveley
In Hot Pursuit, Matt charts his incredible 30-year career policing the mean streets of London, from his early days chasing criminals on foot, to his rise to garage sergeant and high-octane car chases on twos and blues that earned him the nickname Buzz Lightyear.
In Love with Younger Men
Katreen Hardt
In Love with Younger Men explores the relationship between older women and younger men.
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.
Nicky Samuel: My Story
Richard Graves
Memoirs of the socialite Nicky Samuel and her relationships with, amongst others, Andy Warhol, Jane Fonda, Roger Vadim, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Spice Up Your Lies is an insider’s account of the Spice Girls’ ill-fated, final world tour.
Graeme Culliford ,
Jimmy Gulzar
Spice Up Your Lies is an insider’s account of the Spice Girls’ ill-fated, final world tour.
The Art of Crime: : Diary of A Prison Art Tutor
Steve Wheeler
A memoir of the three years spent working as an Art Tutor in two of Britain’s notorious jails.
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.
Bewilderment
James Penhaligon
Bewilderment consists of nineteen personal stories of ordinary people whose lives were turned upside down by mental illnesses with rare and dramatic symptoms.
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.
Reference
10,000 Years of Douchebags : A History of Bad Leaders
Dave Rear
A truly global list of the most hideous, malevolent, narcissistic, wicked, and incompetent leaders in history.
Why Is This A Question? : And Everything Else You Wanted To Know About Language
Paul Jones
Looks at the origins of our alphabet and writing system; our grammatical rules and conventions; the sound structure of language; and even how our brains and bodies interpret and communicate language itself.