News
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S&S buy memoir by founder of The Giggly Pig sausage company
16 Oct 2011
The gripping memoirs of the award-winning founder of The Giggly Pig sausage company, Tracy Mackness, ghosted by Deborah Crewe, have been sold to Simon & Schuster for publication in spring 2013. Simon & Schuster are hoping to replicate the success of their Borstal Girl with Mackness’s acount of her own prison experiences .
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Preface to publish authorised history of Dickins Medal
16 Oct 2011
David Long’s history of the Animal VC, Gallantry and Devotion, authorised by the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals, has been bought by Preface for publication next year.
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Air ambulance doctor's memoirs to Ebury
16 Oct 2011
Tony Bleetman’s thrilling memoirs as an air ambulance doctor, ghosted by Marcus Georgio, have been bought by Ebury for publication next year.
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Criminal London: A sightseer's Guide to the Capital of Crime to Aurum
16 Oct 2011
Criminal London: A sightseer’s Guide to the Capital of Crime by Kris Hollington with pictures by NIna Hollington , five walks covering over a hundred locations with criminal associations, has been bought by Aurum who publish next July.
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July 1914: Countdown to War sold to Basic
16 Oct 2011
US rights in Sean McMeekin’s July 1914: Countdown to War, a day by day account of the crisis which led to the First World War based on fresh Russian, German and Turkish archives, have been sold to Basic for publication next year. UK rights are currently on offer.
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Disobeying Hitler to Faber
16 Oct 2011
UK rights in Randall Hansen’s Disobeying Hitler on German opposition after the July 1944 blomb plot have been sold to Faber for delivery next year. US rights are now on offer.
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Cathy Glass no 1 in Morrisons
14 Oct 2011
Cathy Glass’s The Night The Angels Came is No 1 in Morrisons and was HarperCollins’ bestselling title at Asda this week.
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Indian Superfood is no 1
14 Oct 2011
Gupareet Bains’s Indian Superfood is no.1 Indian cookery book, and no. 2 healthy eating cookery book on Amazon.
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Sean McMeekin wins prize for The Berlin-Baghdad Express
14 Oct 2011
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power, has been named the winner of this year’s Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. The prize is sponsored by Charles Jelavich and is awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (formerly AAASS) for a distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history. The prize carries with it an award of $500.
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Nessa Carey on Today programme
14 Oct 2011
Nessa Carey’s appearance on the Today programme can be heard at http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9613000/9613257.stm
