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  • Eleanor Fitzsimons wins the Keats-Shelley Essay Prize for 2013

    09 Nov 2013

    On Thursday evening, 7 November, in front of a distinguished audience that filled St. Martin’s Hall in St. Martin’s Crypt to capacity, the prestigious Keats-Shelley Essay prize for 2013 was awarded to Eleanor Fitzsimons for her essay ‘The Shelleys in Ireland: Passion masquerading as insight?’.

    On presenting the prize to Ms. Fitzsimons, acclaimed novelist and chair of the judging panel Salley Vickers described her winning essay as, ‘a thoughtful, exciting account of political reform’, and spoke of how her own admiration for the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was tainted somewhat by his behaviour towards his first wife, Harriet.

    The Keats-Shelley Essay Prize, established in 1998 by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, actively champions and celebrates new voices and emerging writers. In her introduction, Salley Vickers described the essays submitted this year as, ‘rich and various, scholarly and for the most part pleasingly original’.

    The winning essay by Eleanor Fitzsimons will be published in the next issue of the Keats-Shelley Review and ties into a wider project, a biography she is working on that examines Harriet Shelley’s fascinating, turbulent and tragic life. Further details of this biography, which is at an advanced stage of research, can be found here (link to book description).

  • Two MJ Trow titles to Severn House

    06 Nov 2013

    Severn House have bought Girdled Earth, the seventh in M.J. Trow’s historical crime series featuring Christopher Marlowe, and The Blue and the Grey, the first in a new historical crime series set in the 1860s.

  • Lots of interest in Hear My Cry

    05 Nov 2013

    Diana Kader’s interview about the experiences which form the basis of her book Hear My Cry on MBC has generated huge press coverage.

    Interview (starts about halfway through)

    Coverage:

    http://almashhad-alyemeni.com/news32400.html

    http://alainonline.net/news_details.php?sid=9847

    http://yemen-press.com/news23665.html

    http://www.albaldnews.com/news5426.html

    http://aden-post.com/news/10816/

  • Two agency titles in top 10 non-fiction paperback list

    05 Nov 2013

    Congratulations to Casey Watson whose Last Kiss for Mummy  is no 3 and Cathy Glass whose  Will You Love Me? is no 7 is this week’s paperback non-fiction bestseller list.

  • More coverage for Jacky Donovan

    05 Nov 2013

    There’s more coverage for Jacky Donovan’s sensational memoir Instant Whips and Dream Toppings, including this in the Southampton Echo, and the following in Bella.

  • Criminal London nominated for award

    04 Nov 2013

    Criminal London: A sightseer’s guide to the capital of crime by Kris and Nina Hollington has been nominated for the British Travel Press Awards.

  • Two US sales to Skyhorse

    03 Nov 2013

    Skyhorse Publishing have bought US rights in Adrian Gilbert’s Voices of the Legion: The French Foreign Legion in its Own Words and David Long’s Bizarre London.

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    03 Nov 2013

    French rights in Coralie Colmez and Leila Schneps’s Maths on Trial.

    Brazilian rights in Peter Padfield’s Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of World War Two - A Secret History.

    Portuguese rights in Adrian Weale’s history of the SS.

  • Square Peg buys The Book of 365

    02 Nov 2013

    Square Peg have bought world rights in Hugh Brazier and Jan McCann’s The Book of 365 a trivia book which consists of 365 entries, using every number from 1 to 365 as a starting point for a brief exploration of the world around us, taking in a broad sweep of science, history, art, literature, medicine, and popular culture.

  • Icon buy biography of 19th century courtesan

    02 Nov 2013

    Icon have bought UK rights in Catherine Hewitt’s Valtesse de la Bigne: A Courtesan’s Conquest of Paris , which tells the incredible tale of the nineteenth century courtesan who clawed her way up from humble, impoverished origins to become one of the most sought-after and glamorous women in Paris.