Rights Reverted

This section highlights some of the agency books where rights have reverted and the books are available to be resold. Further details can be found in the Author profiles.

To confirm whether a book is unpublished in a certain language or whether rights have reverted back to the author, please contact Andrew Lownie.

Adam Ockelford

• In the Key of Genius: The Extraordinary Life of Derek Paravicini
• Music: Cracking the Code

Adrian Gilbert

• Sniper One-on-One
• Prisoner of War
• The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War
• Voices of the Legion: The French Foreign Legion in its Own Words

Adrian Weale

• Patriot Traitors
• Green-Eyed Boys
• Secret Warfare
• The Real SAS
• Fighting Fit
• Eyewitness Hirosmima
• Renegades: Hitler's Englishmen
• Science and the Swastika
• The SS: A New History

Alan Baker

• The Lighthouse Keeper
• The Edge of Science: Mysteries of Mind, Space and Time
• The Enigmas of History: Myths, Mysteries and Madness from Around the World
• Dyatlov Pass

Alan White

• My Extra Life

Alice Jamieson

• Today I'm Alice

Andrew Lownie

• John Buchan
• Edinburgh Literary Companion

Angus Watson

• Romancing the Web

Anthony Brettell Lodge

• Café No Problem

Anthony Teasdale

• The Penguin Companion to European Union

Antony Wynn

• Persia in the Great Game: Sir Percy Sykes
• Three Camels to Smyrna

Barbara Stcherbatcheff

• City Girl

Ben MacFarlane

• Cruise Ship SOS
• Holiday SOS

Benedict Gummer

• The Scourging Angel

Bryan Cartledge

• Mihály Károly and István Bethlen: Hungary
• The Will to Survive

Cameron Addicott

• The Interceptor

Cassie Harte

• I Did Tell, I Did

Catherine Kerr-Phillips

• Hoping for Rain

Cathy Glass

• Cut
• Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Broken Child
• Hidden: The Heartbreaking True Story of an ‘Invisible’ Boy
• Kids in Care
• The Saddest Girl In The World
• Eclipse of the Heart
• Happy Kids
• The Girl in the Mirror
• A Dreadful Mistake

Celia Lee

• The Churchills

Chantelle Taylor

• B Company: The Battle for Nade-ali

Charlotte Zeepvat

• Prince Leopold: The Untold Story of Queen Victoria’s Youngest Son
• From Cradle to Crown: British Nannies and Governesses at the World’s Royal Courts
• Queen Victoria's Family: A Century of Photographs
• Romanov Autumn: Stories from the last century of Imperial Russia
• The Camera and the Tsars: A Romanov Family Album
• The Queen Wore Lilac

Christian Oliver

• The Viper of Kerman

Christian Wolmar

• Broken Rails
• Down The Tube
• On the Wrong Line
• Blood, Iron and Gold
• Fire and Steam
• Railways at War
• Subterranean Railway

Christopher Lloyd

• What on Earth Evolved
• What on Earth Happened?
• What on Earth Mattered?

Clare Mulley

• The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb

Claudia Spahr

• Good Time Baby: The essential guide for mums over 35
• So What If He's Younger

Daniel Tammet

• Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir of Asperger's and An Extraordinary Mind
• Embracing The Wide Sky: The Enormous Potential of Your Mind

Darren Moore

• The Soldier: : A History of Courage, Sacrifice and Brotherhood

Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott

• Aces High

David Cornell

• Bannockburn: A New History
• The Black Prince and the Lords of War

David Craig

• Fleeced!: How we've been betrayed by the politicians, bureaucrats and bankers...and what it's cost us
• Plundering the Public Sector
• Rip-Off!: The scandalous inside story of the management consulting money machine
• Squandered
• The Great EU Rip-Off

David Day

• Antarctica: A Biography
• Conquest
• Into the Abyss: Winston Churchill and the Origins of Two World Wars

David Ellis

• That Summer of 1816: Byron on the Lake of Geneva

David Haviland

• How Did a Dead Horse Win the Derby?
• Self-Harming Parrots and Exploading Toads

David Long

• Spectacular Vernacular: London's 100 Most Extraordinary Buildings
• Tunnels, Towers & Temples: London's 100 Strangest Places
• The Little Book of London

David Roberts

• A Grave Man
• Bones of the Buried
• Dangerous Sea
• Hollow Crown
• No More Dying
• Something Wicked
• Sweet Poison
• The More Deceived
• The Quality of Mercy
• Sweet Sorrow

David Stafford

• Churchill and the Secret Service
• Mission Accomplished: SOE in Italy 1943-1945
• Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets
• Endgame 1945
• Flight From Reality: Rudolf Hess and His Mission to Scotland 1941
• Secret Agent: The True Story of the Special Operations Executive
• Spies Beneath Berlin
• Ten Days to D-Day: Countdown to the liberation of Europe

David Weston

• The Doings of the Dodger Or the Articles of the Artful

Desmond Seward

• Caravaggio
• Eleanor of Aquitaine
• Eugenie
• Marie Antoinette
• Metternich
• Napoleon and Hitler
• Napoleon's Family
• Richard III
• The Bourbon Kings of France
• The First Bourbon
• Brief History of the Wars of the Roses
• Old Apulia: The Travellers' Prospect
• Savonarola: The Burning of the Vanities
• The Last White Rose: Fear and Paranoia in the Tudor court
• Wings Over the Desert: In Action with an RFC Pilot in Palestine 1916-18
• Jerusalem's Traitor: Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judaea

Dinah Roe

• The Rossettis In Wonderland: How One Family Transformed Victorian London

Dominic Selwood

• Jesus: His Life and Words
• Yeshua the Nazorai: The Heretic’s Biography of Jesus

Doug Beattie

• An Ordinary Soldier
• Task Force Helmand

Dr Fame

• Get Famous: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Star

Duncan Falconer

• First into Action
• The Hijack
• The Hostage
• The Operative
• The Protector
• Undersea Prison
• The Mercenary
• Pirate
• Assassin
• Traitor

Edward Black

• Bristol: The Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll Aristocrat

Frances Woodsford

• Dear Mr Bigelow

Francesca Gould

• Burn Off Those Calories!
• Horny Lizards and Headless Chickens
• Self-Harming Parrots and Exploding Toads
• Why is Yawning Contagious?

Frank Ledwidge

• Emperors Old Clothes

Frank McDonough

• Hitler's People: An Eye Witness History of the Third Reich

Gary Smailes

• The Battle of Hastings

Geoffrey Roberts

• Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953
• Zhukov: A Critical Biography

Gurpareet Bains

• Indian Superfood

Guy Bellamy

• A Village Called Sin
• I Have a Complaint to Make
• In the Midday Sun
• The Comedy Hotel
• The Holiday
• The Man Who Won
• The Mystery of Men
• The Nudists
• The Power of Women
• The Secret Lemonade Drinker
• The Sinner's Congregation
• The Tax Exile
• A Year in Suburbia

Hannah Renier

• Leicester Square: Ambition, murder and the birth of the Empire.

James Hannam

• God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

James Munson

• The Smell of the Continent: British Travellers in Europe 1814-1914

Jeff Maynard

• Wings of Ice: The Air Race to the Poles

Jenny Woolf

• The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: A Biographical Investigation

Jessie Childs

• Henry VIII’s Last Victim

Jimmy Lee Shreeve

• The Ultimate Man Diet
• Blood Rites
• Cannibals
• Love & Sex Magic
• The Bumper Book of Black Magic
• The Devil Made Me Do It
• The Race Fixers

John Hatcher

• The Black Death: An Intimate History

John Heale

• One Blood

John Lee

• The Churchills

John Worthen

• Frieda: Scenes from the Lfe of a von Richthofen
• Robert Schumann
• TS Eliot

Jon Latimer

• Deception in War
• 1812: War with America
• Alamein
• Buccaneers of the Caribbean
• Burma: The Forgotten War

Jonathan Conlin

• Civilisation
• Double Crossing: Sedition and Espionage in Britain and France, 1759-1789
• Tales of Two Cities: Paris and London, 1750-1914
• The Nation’s Mantelpiece: A History of the National Gallery

Joyce Cary

• Memoir of the Bobotes
• A Fearful Joy
• A House of Children
• Aissa Saved
• An American Visitor
• Castle Corner
• Charley is My Darling
• Cock Jarvis: An Unfinished Novel
• Except the Lord
• Herself Surprised
• Mister Johnson: A Bruce Beresford film starring Pierce Brosnan with a screenplay by William Boyd
• Not Honour More
• Prisoner of Grace
• Spring Song and Other Stories
• The African Witch
• The Captive and the Free
• The Horse's Mouth
• The Moonlight

Julian Maclaren-Ross

• Selected Letters
• Selected Stories: Edited and introduced by Paul Willetts
• Bitten by the Tarantula and Other Writing: Edited and introduced by Paul Willetts
• Collected Memoirs: Edited and introduced by Paul Willetts
• Of Love and Hunger: With an introduction by D.J. Taylor

Juliet Barker

• The Brontës
• The Brontes: A Life in Letters
• Wordsworth: A Life in Letters
• Wordsworth: A Life
• Agincourt
• Conquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417-1450

Kevin Ivison

• Red One

Kris Hollington

• Baby X
• Diamond Geezers
• Crack House
• How to Kill
• The Interceptor

Laurence Gardner

• Bloodline of the Holy Grail
• Genesis of the Grail Kings
• Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark
• Realm of the Ring Lords
• Revelation of the Devil
• The Evolution of God
• The Grail Enigma
• The Magdalene Legacy

Lawrence James

• Imperial Warrior
• The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
• The Iron Duke
• Aristocrats
• Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British Empire
• The Illustrated Rise and Fall of the British Empire
• The Middle Class
• The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
• Warrior Race: A History of the British at War

Linda Porter

• Mary Tudor: The First Queen
• Kateryn the Quene: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr

Lynne Barrett-Lee

• Never Say Die

Marguerite van Geldermalsen

• Married to a Bedouin

Marina Chapman

• Wild Child: The Incredible True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys

Mark Crossley

• Big Norm

Mark Nicol

• Condor Blues
• Last Round

Martin Pugh

• The Pankhursts
• We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars
• Hurrah for the Blackshirts
• Speak for Britain: A New History of the Labour Party from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair

Matt Walker

• Moths That Drink Elephants' Tears

Mei Trow

• Boudicca: Warrior Queen
• Cnut, Emperor of the North
• Hess (Written with John Harris)
• Spartacus
• The Pocket Hercules
• Vlad the Impaler
• Who killed Kit Marlowe
• Brigade
• Lestrade and the Brother of Death
• Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand
• Lestrade and the Deadly Game
• Lestrade and the Devil's Own
• Lestrade and the Gift of the Prince
• Lestrade and the Guardian Angel
• Lestrade and the Hallowed House
• Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus
• Lestrade and the Leviathan
• Lestrade and the Magpie
• Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder
• Lestrade and the Ripper
• Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring
• Lestrade and the Sign of Nine
• Maxwell's Chain
• Maxwell's Curse
• Maxwell's Flame
• Maxwell's Grave
• Maxwell's House
• Maxwell's Inspection
• Maxwell's Mask
• Maxwell's Movie
• Maxwell's Retirement
• Maxwell's Reunion
• Maxwell's Revenge
• Maxwell's Ride
• Maxwell's War
• Maxwel's Match
• The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade
• Let him have it Chris
• The Many Faces of Jack the Ripper
• The Wigwam Murder
• El Cid: The Making of a Legend
• War Crime
• Maxwell's Island
• A Brief History of Vampires: From Vlad the Impaler to Edward Cullen, in search of the allure of the vampire

Melanie Davies

• Never Say Die

Michael Perham

• Dangerous Seas for Boys

Michael Schuster

• Essential Winetasting

Munro Price

• The Fall of the French Monarchy
• The Perilous Crown: Ruling France, 1814-1848

Neil McKenna

• Fanny & Stella
• The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

Neil Simpson

• The Unsinkable Heather Mills

Nicholas Best

• The Man from Treetops
• Tennis and the Masai
• Where were you at Waterloo?
• London in the footsteps of the famous
• Game Over
• Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya
• The Greatest Day in History: 11 November 1918
• The Last Day
• Trafalgar: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sea Battle in History

Patrick Dillon

• Our Story
• The Last Revolution
• The Much-Lamented Death of Madam Geneva

Peter Forbes

• Dazzled and Deceived
• The Gecko's Foot

Peter Padfield

• Dönitz
• Hess
• Himmler
• Battleship
• Rule Britannia
• The Great Naval Race

Peter Thompson

• Athina: The Last Onassis
• Diana Confidential: Written with Chris Hutchins
• Elvis and Lennon: Written wih Chris Hutchins
• Fergie Confidential: Written with Chris Hutchins
• Jack Nicholson
• Keep Off the Skyline: Written with Robert Macklin
• Maxwell: A Portrait of Power, Written with Anthony Delano
• Anzac Fury
• The Man Who Died Twice
• Axis of Oil: The Truth about the Energy Revolution
• The Big Fella: The Rise and Rise of BHP Billiton
• Kill the Tiger: Written with Robert Macklin
• Pacific Fury
• The Battle for Singapore

Randall Hansen

• Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany

Rebecca Page

• The SkinAid Challenge

Richard J. Aldrich

• Intelligence and the War Against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service
• The Faraway Way
• The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence
• Witness to War: Diaries of the Second World War in Europe

Richard Mullen

• The Smell of the Continent: British Travellers in Europe 1814-1914

Robert Guest

• The Shackled Continent: Africa’s Past, Present and Future

Robert Hutchinson

• Elizabeth’s Spymaster
• Last Days of Henry VIII
• Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII’s Most Notorious Minister
• Young Henry
• House of Treason: The fatal pride and ambition of a powerful Tudor dynasty, 1485-1595
• John Company: A social history of the first multi-national company, 1756-1874

Robert Stirling

• Special Forces: The Ultimate Guide To Combat
• Special Forces: The Ultimate Guide To Survival

Roger Beam

• The “Englandspiel” Spy Scandal

Roger Crowley

• Constantinople: The Last Great Siege
• Empires of the Sea

Rory Callan

• Football All Stars

Russ Willey

• Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable
• The London Gazetteer

Sam Pivnik

• Survivor: The memoirs of Auschwitz Prisoner 135913

Samantha Brick

• La Grande Blonde

Saul Kelly

• The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oasis and the Desert War

Sayed Mahmoody

• Lost Without My Daughter

Sean Longden

• Dunkirk: The Men They Left Behind
• T Force: The Race for Nazi War Secrets 1945
• To the Victor the Spoils
• Children of the Blitz
• Hitler’s British Slaves

Selwyn Parker

• Chasing the Chimney Sweep
• The Great Crash

Shaun Walker

• Borderlines

Sian Rees

• Moll: The Making of An 18th Century Heroine
• Words of War

Simon LeVay

• When Science Goes Wrong

Simon Young

• AD 500
• Celtic Revolution: Two Thousand Years that Made the Modern World
• Farewell Britannia: A Family Saga of Roman Britain

Smita Talati

• Perfect Money Saving

Stephen Dorril

• Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism
• Honeytrap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward, Written with Anthony Summers
• MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service
• Smear!: Wilson and the Secret State
• The Silent Conspiracy

Stewart Lansley

• Londongrad: From Russia with Cash
• Masters of the Universe: the Rise and Fall of Britian's Super-rich

Tim Newark

• Lucky Luciano: The Real and the Fake Gangster
• Highlander: The True Story Behind a Military Legend
• The Fighting Irish: The History of the Extraordinary Irish Soldier

Timothy Good

• Need to Know
• Above Top Secret
• Alien Base
• Alien Liaison
• Alien Update
• Beyond Top Secret
• Unearthly Disclosure

Tom Devine

• Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815
• The Scottish Nation: 1700-2000

Tom Pocock

• 1945: The Dawn Came Up Like Thunder
• A Thirst for Glory: The Life of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith
• Alan Moorehead
• Captain Marryat
• Horatio Nelson
• Nelson's Women
• Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire
• Sailor King: The Life of King William IV
• Battle for Empire: The Very First World War 1756-63
• Stopping Napoleon
• The Terror Before Trafalgar

Tony Spawforth

• The Oxford Classical Dictionary, third edition
• Versailles: A Biography of A Palace

Trevor Homer

• Born in the USA
• The Book of Origins

Vicky Radtke

• From Starnash with Love
• From Starnash with Love

Warwick A. Davis

• Life’s Too Short