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
A Spy in the Family
David Gardner,
Paul Henderson
In Lying Eyes: The Spy Who Broke a Mother’s Heart, investigative journalists Paul Henderson and David Gardner reveal the incredible untold story of the mother who lost her son twice.
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.
General
The Canaries: Twenty British Whistleblowers Who Changed the World
Alex Grant
An account of twenty whistleblowers in post-war Britain whose whistleblowing was particularly courageous, or which had a long-lasting effect on British society, and the wider world.
History
A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit: MI6-CIA Covert Action in Communist Albania
Stephen Long
Explains the west’s first secret attempt to subvert a communist state behind the Iron Curtain
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.
The Viennese Waltz: Kidnap, Murder, and the CIA’s secret plot to win the Cold War
Daniel Cowling
The first book in English about postwar Vienna and its crucial importance in the Cold War
The Viking Earldom : The Norse Earls of Orkney: Powerbrokers of the Viking World
Angus Konstam
Using an engaging, fast-paced narrative, The Viking Earldom tells the story of the Norse Earls of Orkney, whose lands once covered much of Scotland, and whose reach extended as far as Scandinavia, continental Europe and even the Mediterranean.
To the Brink
Ian Proud
To the brink will be the first book to offer a searing polemic on how western sanctions against Russia laid the foundations for a full-blown war in Ukraine.
Memoir
Bessell X
Paul Bessell
Bessell X is the extraordinary story of Paul Bessell’s uncomfortable discovery of the truth about Peter Bessell, his father, set against a background of astonishing business and political corruption in the 1960s and ‘70s.
Popular Science
The Go-Betweens : How Mosquitoes and their kin shaped the Modern World
Andy Dobson
Blending historical narrative with popular science, The Go-Betweens takes a biologist’s-eye view of history describing the ways that vectors have shaped, disrupted, and catalysed human affairs.