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News

  • MJ Trow crime novel long-listed

    01 May 2012

    Congratulations to MJ Trow whose crime novel Maxwell’s Island, published by Soundings, has been long-listed for the unabridged Audible Sounds of Crime award.

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    27 Apr 2012

    Simon Berthon’s Warlords to Estonia.

    Nicholas Best’s book on the last days of World War Two Five Days That Shocked the World to China.

    Marina Chapman’s The Girl with No Name to Canada.

    Alicia Eaton’s Fix Your Life with NLP to India.

    Duncan Falconer’s thriller Mercenary to Holland.

    Kevin Ivison’s bomb disposal memoir Red One to Poland.

    Geoff Robert’s biography of the Soviet General Zhukov Stalin’s General to Finland and China.

  • Two more agency bestsellers in non-fiction paperback list

    24 Apr 2012

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass, who remains at no 3 with A Baby’s Cry , and Lynne Barrett-Lee the ghost on The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers which is no 7.

  • Four agency titles prominently displayed in a bookshop

    22 Apr 2012

    Four agency titles prominently displayed in a bookshop – Giant George ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee, Casey Watson’s Crying for Help, Cathy Glass’s A Baby’s Cry and The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee.

  • Hurting Too Much: Shocking Stories from the Frontline of Child Protection remains bestseller

    21 Apr 2012

    Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington’s Hurting Too Much: Shocking Stories from the Frontline of Child Protection is no 30 in paperback bestseller list.

  • The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers is no 7

    21 Apr 2012

    Congratulations to Lynne Barrett-Lee the ghost of The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers which in the paperback bestseller lists this week is:

    #7 The Sunday Times, #8 The Guardian, #8 Live Magazine #9 The Bookseller

  • Cathy Glass is no 3

    18 Apr 2012

    Cathy Glass’s A Baby’s Cry is no 3 in general paperback list this week.

  • Four agency bestsellers

    11 Apr 2012

    Congratulations to:

    Cathy Glass whose A Baby’s Cry is no 3.

    Lynne Barrett-Lee’s the ghost on The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers which is no 7.

    Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington whose Hurting Too Much: Shocking Stories from the Frontline of Child Protection is no 15.

    Casey Watson whose Crying for Help: The Shocking True Story of a Damaged Girl with a Dark Past is no 20.

  • Play of The Custard Boys, compared upon publication to Lord of the Flies, opens at Tabard Theatre

    10 Apr 2012

    THE CUSTARD BOYS based on the novel by agency author John Rae and adapted and directed by the Bafta-winning Glenn Chandler, creator of Taggart opens tonight at the Tabard Theatre, London, and plays until 12th May.

    Five London schoolboys are evacuated to a Norfolk seaside village, far from Hitler’s bombs. They want to fight for England but are too young to join up and too old to wait. They join the school army cadet force and learn to fire rifles, they form a gang and play at being soldiers. But it is not real war.

    Sixteen year old John Curlew dreams of being a Spitfire pilot. Mark Stein is Jewish and a pacifist refugee who hates the war and longs for it to end. When these two boys are thrown together and form a romantic bond, their friendship splits the group and invites fear and prejudice. But it is a challenge to a rival gang which becomes the catalyst for a sinister train of events. While men die in their thousands overseas, in a small corner of rural England a group of schoolboys embark on a final war game which will lead ultimately to tragedy.

    The Custard Boys was filmed in the 1960s as Reach for Glory and is a story of sexual awakening, loyalty and betrayal which was compared upon publication to Lord of the Flies.

  • Memoir on the unfolding nature of our relationships with parents bought by Hodder

    10 Apr 2012

    Carol Lee’s latest memoir To Be Beloved on the unfolding nature of our relationships with parents as they age and as the roles and boundaries between us begin to alter has been bought by Hodder for publication next year.