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  • Recent Foreign Rights

    10 Oct 2024

    Russian rights in Roger Crowley’s Spice: The sixteenth century contest that shaped the modern world

    Danish rights in Ross King’s The Shortest History of Italy.

    An Indian edition of Ross King’s The Shortest History of Ancient Rome

  • Fifth week in top ten for Cathy Glass

    02 Oct 2024

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose memoir Helpless remains for a fifth week in the top ten. This week she is at no 9.

  • Millenium Dome heist book sold to Reach

    01 Oct 2024

    Reach have bought World English rights in A Diamond Geezer, a memoir of the Millenium Dome robbery by Lee Wenham with Joe Cusack.

  • Flaws of Nature nominated for award.

    26 Sep 2024

    Andy Dobson’s Flaws of Nature: A guide to the outer reaches of evolution has been nominated for the Zoological Society of London’s Clarivate Award for Science Communication, 2024.

  • Fourth week in top ten for Cathy Glass

    26 Sep 2024

    Cathy Glass’s Helpless is no 4 this week, dropping from its no 1 slot.

  • Recent translation sales

    23 Sep 2024

    Russian rights in Kitty’s Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Urs Brunner, Julia Schrammel and Nigel Jones.

    Hungarian and Croatian rights in Roger Crowley’s Spice: The sixteenth century contest that shaped the modern world.

    Korean rights in Paul Anthony Jones’s Around the World in 80 Words

  • Another Crusades book to Yale.

    18 Sep 2024

    Yale University Press have bought world rights in The Knights of Malta: Holy Warriors of the Crusades by Steve Tibble and Rory MacLellan.

  • Helpless no 1 for third week running.

    18 Sep 2024

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose memoir Helpless is spending its third week at no 1 in the paperback non-fiction bestseller list.

  • Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans long-listed

    18 Sep 2024

    Congratulations to Daniel Cowling whose Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans: : The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 has been long-listed for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown by the Historical Writers Association.

  • Recent translation sales

    04 Sep 2024

    Spanish rights in Kristofer Allerfeldt’s The Klan: An American History

    Spanish rights in Roger Crowley’s City of Fortune

    Taiwanese rights in Lawrence James’s Empires in the Sun.