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  • Stalin's Englishman optioned

    22 Dec 2020

    Andrew Lownie’s Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess has been optioned by Daybreak Pictures.

  • Aerial Warfare shortlisted by Military History Matters.

    22 Dec 2020

    Congratulations to Frank Ledwidge whose Aerial Warfare: The Battle for the Skies has been shortlisted for ‘Book of the Year 2021’ by Military History Matters.

  • History of Dolphin Square to The History Press

    15 Dec 2020

    The History Press have bought World English rights in a history of Dolphin Square by Simon Danczuk and Dan Smith.

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    15 Dec 2020

    Bulgarian and Danish rights in Georgie Campbell’s The Real Diana.

    Dutch rights in Cathy Glass’s A Terrible Secret.

    Portuguese rights in James Hannam’s God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

  • Desmond Seward shortlisted for a Military History Matters Book of the Year Award

    15 Dec 2020

    Desmond Seward has been shortlisted for a Military History Matters Book of the Year Award for The King Over The Water.

  • The Celestial Wife novel to S&S

    14 Dec 2020

    Simon & Schuster have bought World English rights in Leslie Howard’s novel The Celestial Wife.

  • Art is a Tyrant one of best art books of the year

    14 Dec 2020

    Catherine Hewitt’s biography of Rosa Bonheur Art is a Tyrant has made the Times’ list of best art books of the year

  • When We Fall chosen as one of the best historical novels of 2020

    14 Dec 2020

    Carolyn Kirby’s When We Fall has been chosen by the Times as one of the best historical novels of 2020 calling it a ‘A gripping novel..’

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    30 Nov 2020

    Turkish rights in Lady Colin Campbell’s Meghan and Harry : The Real Story.

    Portuguese rights in Roger Crowley’s The Accursed Tower:: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades.

    Korean rights in Chris Woodford’s Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Secret Science Hidden in Your Home

  • Mistresses is Book of the Year

    30 Nov 2020

    Linda Porter’s Mistresses: sex and scandal at the court of Charles II has been picked by Tracy Borman as one of her ‘Books of the Year’ in BBC History Magazine describing it as ‘a set of impeccably researched pen portraits of the seven women who dominated the king’s life…an engaging and enlightening read.’