News
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Kissing Frogs enters Amazon top twenty
02 Sep 2013
Sarah Ingham’s romantic comedy novel <em>Kissing Frogs</em>, recently published by Thistle, last week broke into the Amazon top twenty, just between Tracy Bloom and John Grisham.
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More French success for Joyce Mackenzie
31 Aug 2013
Joyce Mackenzie’s The Gold Mohur Tree is continuing to sell well in France, and is currently at #2 in English-language historical fiction, just below Hilary Mantel.
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Serial rights in Spencer Matthew’s autobiography sold
31 Aug 2013
The serial rights in Spencer Matthew’s autobiography have gone to Now Magazine.
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
31 Aug 2013
Dutch rights in Sean McMeekin’s Russian Revoluton to Niewe Amsterdam
Romanian rights in Simon Berthon’s Warlords to Humanitas
Polish rights in Michael Jago’s The Man Who Was George Smiley to Wydawnictwo RM
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US rights sold in They eat horses, don’t they?: The Truth about the French
31 Aug 2013
US rights in Piu Eatwell’s They eat horses, don’t they?: The Truth about the French have been bought by Thomas Dunne Books.
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The Mysterious Lives of Moura Budberg to Oneworld
31 Aug 2013
World English rights in Debbie McDonald’s biography The Mysterious Lives of Moura Budberg, written with Jeremy Dronfield, have been sold to One World.
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Katharine Quarmby on Gypsy entrepreneurs
28 Aug 2013
Agency author Katharine Quarmby has written a fascinating piece for The Spectator on Gypsy entrepreneurs.
“Ask anyone from the settled community (known as ‘gorgias’ to Romani Gypsies and as ‘country people’ to Irish Travellers) what Gypsies do for money and the list would be short: tarmacking, roofing, scrap-metal dealing, hawking or maybe horse dealing.
This picture, of course, has a germ of truth in it. Many Gypsies still work as skilled labourers — but what’s remarkable is just how entrepreneurial they are, too.”
Katharine’s new ebook Blood & Water was recently selected as an Amazon ‘Kindle Single’.
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'Novel' is Book of the Week
28 Aug 2013
Zoe Griffin has selected Lynne Barrett-Lee’s new creative writing guide Novel: Plan it. Write it. Sell it., published by Thistle, as her Book of the Week.
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Great review for Jeremy Clay
27 Aug 2013
Jeremy Clay’s fascinating new book The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton has received a terrific review in The Times.
“If you like black humour you will like Clay’s eclectic compilation.”
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Runaway remains in top ten.
27 Aug 2013
Congratulations to Emily Mackenzie and Clifford Thurlow whose Runaway has been S&S’s summer non-fiction hit and is still charting at No. 10 in the Sunday Times chart.
