News
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'Queen Victoria' riding high
14 Apr 2013
David Haviland’s myth-busting guide to history Why Was Queen Victoria Such A Prude? has now been the number one book in all its categories for a month and a half.
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Recent Film options
14 Apr 2013
Simon Berthon’s Warlords has been optioned by Fox
Sean Longden’s Blitz Kids has been optioned by Peachtree
Daniel Tammet’s Born on a Blue Day has been optioned by Weidemann & Berg.
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Kirk Norcross serialised in The Sun
14 Apr 2013
Kirk Norcross’s memoir Essex Boy, published by Sidgwick & Jackson, on April 25th is serialised in the Sun today and tomorrow.
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WH Smith bestsellers
13 Apr 2013
Here is Susan Ottaway celebrating being No.3 in the WH Smith bestseller list. Clare Mulley is No.1 in the same list with The Spy Who Loved.
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
13 Apr 2013
Hebrew rights in Nicholas Best’s Five Days That Shocked The World: An Oral History of Europe at the End of World War Two to Keter Books in Israel.
Japanese rights in Marina Chapman’s The Girl with no Name to Komakusa Publishing.
Chinese rights in Francesca Gould and David Haviland’s Self-Harming Parrots and Exploding Toads and Why You Shouldn’t Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body to Shanghai Joint Publishing Company .
Polish language rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Greatest Heist in History: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks. to Jagiellonian University Press in Krakow.
German rights in Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers to Henser.
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Book six in Kit Marlowe series to Severn House
13 Apr 2013
Severn House have bought Traitor’s Storm, the latest in M.J. Trow’s historical crime series featuring Christopher Marlowe.
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Hugh Pym's Inside the Banking Crisis to Bloomsbury
13 Apr 2013
Inside the Banking Crisis by Hugh Pym, Chief Economics Correspondent for BBC News, the astonishing story of how Britain’s banking system nearly crashed has been bought by Bloomsbury for publication next year.
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Little Drifters sold to Harper Collins
13 Apr 2013
Kathleen O’Shea’s memoir Little Drifters ghosted by Katy Weitz has been bought by Harper Collins.
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St Martin's buys Company Confessions: The CIA, Secrecy and Memoir Writing
13 Apr 2013
St Martin’s Press have bought US rights in Christopher Moran’s Company Confessions: The CIA, Secrecy and Memoir Writing.
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Andrew Lownie calls for limited licenses
12 Apr 2013
“We also all need to look at limited licences — I suggest ten year licences as with translation — to allow greater control of rights at a time of rapid technological change. It is wrong to sign away rights, many not even known, forever, now that books never go out of print. Naturally, publishers and agents will be reluctant to do so arguing that they should reap the benefits of what they have sown, but ten years should be sufficient to recoup the investment made.”
The full Publishing Perspectives piece can be found here.
