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News

  • Cathy Glass is no 2 for third week

    09 Oct 2012

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose Another Forgotten Child remains at no 2 for a third week.

  • Words with Jam column

    08 Oct 2012

    Andrew Lownie’s latest column answering questions about publishing can be found at

    http://issuu.com/wordswithjam/docs/wwjoctober2012issuu?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage&pageNumber=36

  • The Spy Who Loved serialised

    06 Oct 2012

    Clare Mulley’s life of the SOE agent Christine Granville is extracted in the Daily Mail today.

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    06 Oct 2012

    Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers to Korea, Geoff Roberts’ Stalin’s General to Brazil, Cathy Glass’s Girl in the Mirror to Poland

  • Cathy Glass is no 2 for another week

    03 Oct 2012

    Cathy Glass’s fostering memoir Another Forgotten Child is again no 2 in the non-fiction paperback list this week.

  • How to Remove a Brain serialised in Daily Mail

    01 Oct 2012

    Congratulations to David Haviland whose trivia book How to Remove a Brain has just been serialized in the Daily Mail . The GP magazine Pulse describes it as “ A must for every GP’s Christmas stocking”.

  • UK Literary Agencies Market Intelligence Report 2012

    27 Sep 2012

    An interesting report on literary agency activities researched and written by Emma Gillett, the UK Literary Agencies Market Intelligence Report 2012 can be found here: http://db.tt/Gbn958Qt

  • UFO book sold to Pegasus

    26 Sep 2012

    Claiborne Hancock at Pegasus has bought North American rights in Earth: An Alien Enterprise by veteran best-selling UFO writer Timothy Good. The book gives details of alien contacts with military personnel and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy and how US Army forces shot down alien space craft in Germany. Pegasus publish next year.

  • Foreign Rights sales

    26 Sep 2012

    A number of foreign rights deals on the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair:

    Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers to Japan Shed Simove’s spoof Fifty Shades of Gray to Holland Chinese (simplified characters) in Christian Wolmar’s Blood, Iron and Gold Cathy Glass’s Another Forgotten Child to Poland

  • St Martin's buy book on Rendlesham Forest UFO mystery

    26 Sep 2012

    North American rights in Nick Pope’s Rendezvous at Rendlesham have been bought by St Martin’s Press for publication next year. The book draws on the exclusive testimony of two witnesses , John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, to the best documented of all UFO sightings - that at a USAF base in Suffolk in 1980 .