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  • Jack the Ripper book optioned

    25 Apr 2025

    David Bullock’s candidate for Jack the Ripper The Man Who Would Be Jack has been optioned by Birdie Pictures.

  • Spy book to Reach

    25 Apr 2025

    Reach have bought UK& Commonwealth rights in A Model Spy Rory Maclean’s biography of the German spy Gisela Klein .

  • Recent translation sales

    25 Apr 2025

    Polish rights in Anthony Everitt’s The Rise of Rome : The making of the World’s Greatest Empire.

    Simplified Chinese rights in Helen Fry’s Women in Intelligence.

    French rights for Cathy Glass’s A Family Torn Apart.

    Russian rights in Richard Wallace’s Chanel’s War.

  • Atlantic buy The Astrarium: Giovanni Dondi and the Invention of Time

    25 Apr 2025

    Atlantic have bought UK & Commonwealth rights in Ross King’s The Astrarium: Giovanni Dondi and the Invention of Time

  • Recent Foreign Rights

    06 Apr 2025

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

    Serbian rights in Anthony Everett’s Alexander the Great:His Life and his Mysterious Death.

    Bulgarian rights in Christopher Fuhrmann’s Rasputin: The Untold Story.

    Russian rights in Hitler’s Forgotten Children by Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate.

  • Physics Around the Clock: Adventures in the Science of Everyday Living sold in US

    06 Apr 2025

    Prometheus have bought North American rights in Michael Banks’s Physics Around the Clock: Adventures in the Science of Everyday Living.

  • The Astrarium: Giovanni Dondi and the Invention of Time to Atlantic

    06 Apr 2025

    Atlantic have bought North American rights in Ross King’s The Astrarium: Giovanni Dondi and the Invention of Time.

  • US & UK rights sold in Nazi Ghost Train: Evasion, Betrayal and Escape in Occupied Europe

    10 Mar 2025

    UK and Commonwealth rights in Nazi Ghost Train: Evasion, Betrayal and Escape in Occupied Europe by Greg Lewis have gone to Reach.

    Pegasus have bought North American rights.

  • Two serials for A Spy in the Family

    10 Mar 2025

    A Spy in the Family by David Gardner and Paul Henderson was serialised in the Daily Mail and TImes.

  • Recent Foreign Rights

    24 Feb 2025

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

    Polish rights in Sean McMeekin’s To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism.

    Spanish rights in Geoffrey Roberts’s Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books.

    Russian rights in Steve Tibble’s The Crusader Armies: 1099-1187 and Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land