10 Jun 2012
John Blake has bought Born Gangster, the memoirs of Jimmy Tippett Jnr ghosted by journalist Nicola Stow, which takes the reader from the mean manors of South London, to the gloomy underbelly of Hull and the glitzy, sun-drenched millionaires’ playgrounds of the Costa Del Crime.
10 Jun 2012
Harper Collins have bought Cathy Class’s latest book Happy Mealtimes - for Kids: Quick and simple meals that children love in which she shares successful recipes, loved by children of all ages (and adults), together with useful information on food, and tips for ensuring children eat healthily.
10 Jun 2012
Chinese deals for Roger Crowley’s first three books - Constantinople, Empires of the Sea, City of Fortune.
Polish rights in Clare Mulley’s The Spy Who Loved .
German rights in Maths on Trial by Coralie Colmez and Leila Schneps.
Danish rights in Sam Pivnik’s Survivor.
10 Jun 2012
Sam Faiers’s Living Life the Essex Way, ghosted by agency author Emma Donnan, is no 2 in the Sunday Times General hardback list this week.
10 Jun 2012
Andrew Lownie’s latest column in Words with Jam can be found at issuu.com
01 Jun 2012
This week’s Bookseller non-fiction best seller charts has three agency titles:
Living Life the Essex Way at no 9 in the hardback list
Cathy Glass’s A Baby’s Cry at no 15 in the paperback list
The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers, ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee, at no 16
31 May 2012
A Baby’s Cry by Cathy Glass remains in the paperback non-fiction list at no 17 this week.
31 May 2012
Sam Faiers’s Living Life the Essex Way, ghosted by Emma Donnan, remains at no 2 in the hardback non-fiction list this week.
25 May 2012
Congratulations to Adrian Weale whose history of the SS has just been chosen as a Main Selection offer from Military Book Club in the US.
24 May 2012
Congratulations to Emma Donnan the ghost on Living Life the Essex Way, her first book, which was no 6 in the hardback non-fiction list last week and is no 2 this week.
Cathy Glass’s A Baby’s Cry remains in the paperback non-fiction list at no 14 as does Lynne Barrett-Lee’s The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers at no 18.