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Daniel Tammet profiled in Observer
18 Nov 2012
The Observer has run a photo profile of Daniel Tammet in an article entitled ‘Meet the Superhumans’:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/nov/18/superhumans-serena-williams-tom-sietas
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Agency author's book wins Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2012.
16 Nov 2012
Robert Winston’s Science Experiments, ghosted by agency author Ian Graham, a book packed with fun, exciting and often explosive experiments young people can do at home, has won the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize 2012. It was chosen from a short list of six by over 1000 young people from 120 schools and youth groups around the UK.
The shortlist from which the young people chose a winner was selected by an expert adult judging panel, made up of Professor Andrea Brand FMedSci FRS (Chair), Inventor-in-residence at the Science Museum Mark Champkins, BBC science presenter Greg Foot, science teacher Dr Anna Parrish and Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow Dr Angela Taylor.
The prize was awarded at a ceremony at the Royal Society in London on the evening of Thursday 15th November. The book wins an award of £10,000.
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Cathy Glass in top ten US paid Kindle on Amazon
15 Nov 2012
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose Damaged is currently number 8 in the US Kindle paid for bestseller’s list:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/ref=pddp_tskstore_1#1
And number 10 in the Nook bestseller’s list
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
14 Nov 2012
Portuguese rights in Maths on Trial by Coralie Colmez and Leila Schneps to Brazil.
Randal Hansen’s Disobeying Hitler to a French Canadian publisher.
Daniel Tammet’s Born on a Blue Day to Thailand.
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Three agency titles in top ten paperback non-fiction list
14 Nov 2012
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose Another Forgotten Child is no 5, Emma Donnan, the ghost on Living Life the Essex Way, which is no 6 and Casey Watson whose Too Hurt to Stay is no 10.
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Cathy Glass no 1 on Paid Kindle
08 Nov 2012
Cathy Glass’s A Baby’s Cry is no 1 on Paid KIndle on Amazon.
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Three agency titles in top eleven paperback non-fiction list
06 Nov 2012
Congratulations to the three agency authors in the paperback non-fiction list this week:
Cathy Glass’s Another Forgotten Child no 6
Casey Watson’s Too Hurt to Stay no 9
Sam Faier’s Living Life the Essex Way (ghost Emma Donnan) no 11
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Top agency on Publishers Marketplace for UK non-fiction
02 Nov 2012
The agency remains top for deals in the UK non-fiction category on Publishers Marketplace with 17 deals in the last 12 months and 85 overall. The no 2 and 3 slots have respectively 11 and 6.
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Collection on Impostors sold to Source Books
01 Nov 2012
North American rights in Ian Graham’s collection Impostors have been sold to Source Books.
