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  • Lynne Barrett-Lee psychological thriller sold to Amazon

    28 Jun 2019

    World English rights in Lynne Barrett-Lee’s Can You See Me a tense, dark, psychological thriller, exploring themes of privilege, birth-right, betrayal and revenge have been sold to Amazon.

  • New Cathy Glass to Harper Collins

    28 Jun 2019

    Harper Collins have bought world rights in Cathy Glass’s latest fostering memoir Too Scared to Tell.

  • Book on IRA to Bonnier

    28 Jun 2019

    Bonnier have bought World English rights in The Undercover War in Northern Ireland:: Britain’s Special Forces and their battle against the IRA by Harry Gow.

  • Book on Boothby and the Kray Brothers sold to History Press

    28 Jun 2019

    The History Press have bought UK & Commonwealth rights in Dan Smith’s The Peer and the Gangster: A Very British Cover-Up

  • New Casey Watson memoir to Harper Collins

    28 Jun 2019

    World English rights in the latest fostering memoir from Casey Watson and Lynne Barrett-Lee Twenty Eight Days have been bought by Harper Collins

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    06 Jun 2019

    Macedonian rights in The Girl With no Name by Marina Chapman and Lynne Barrett-Lee.

    German rights in Cathy’s Glass’s Cut.

    Swedish rights in The Boy No One Loved by Casey Watson.

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales

    28 May 2019

    Hungarian rights in Julia Boyd’s Travellers in the Third Reich.

    Japanese rights in Nessa Carey’s Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures.

    Estonian rights in Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS by John Carney and Clifford Thurlow.

    Spanish rights in The Accursed Tower:: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades by Roger Crowley.

    Italian rights in Christian Jennings’ At War on the Gothic Line: : Fighting in Italy 1944-’45 and The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German code-breaking 1935-‘45.

    Estonian rights in Hitler’s Last Plot : The 139 Men, Women, and Children Saved from Imminent Execution in the Final Days of the Third Reich by Ian Sayer and Jeremy Dronfield.

  • Mark Peel short-listed for Cricket Book of the Year

    15 May 2019

    Congratulations to Mark Peel whose Playing the Game? Cricket’s Tarnished Ideals from Bodyline to the Present has been short-listed for the Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year.

  • Midwife memoir to Bonnier

    16 Apr 2019

    World rights in the midwife memoir Stand and Deliver: Amazing True Stories of Birth, Life & Death by Phillipa George with Katy Weitz have been bought by Bonnier.

  • Amberley buys new Jack the Ripper book

    13 Apr 2019

    UK & Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) have been sold in Jack the Ripper: The French Connection which provides a new candidate and one originally suspected by Scotland Yard.