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  • Flaws of Nature nominated for award.

    26 Sep 2024

    Andy Dobson’s Flaws of Nature: A guide to the outer reaches of evolution has been nominated for the Zoological Society of London’s Clarivate Award for Science Communication, 2024.

  • Fourth week in top ten for Cathy Glass

    26 Sep 2024

    Cathy Glass’s Helpless is no 4 this week, dropping from its no 1 slot.

  • Recent translation sales

    23 Sep 2024

    Russian rights in Kitty’s Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Urs Brunner, Julia Schrammel and Nigel Jones.

    Hungarian and Croatian rights in Roger Crowley’s Spice: The sixteenth century contest that shaped the modern world.

    Korean rights in Paul Anthony Jones’s Around the World in 80 Words

  • Another Crusades book to Yale.

    18 Sep 2024

    Yale University Press have bought world rights in The Knights of Malta: Holy Warriors of the Crusades by Steve Tibble and Rory MacLellan.

  • Helpless no 1 for third week running.

    18 Sep 2024

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose memoir Helpless is spending its third week at no 1 in the paperback non-fiction bestseller list.

  • Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans long-listed

    18 Sep 2024

    Congratulations to Daniel Cowling whose Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans: : The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 has been long-listed for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown by the Historical Writers Association.

  • Recent translation sales

    04 Sep 2024

    Spanish rights in Kristofer Allerfeldt’s The Klan: An American History

    Spanish rights in Roger Crowley’s City of Fortune

    Taiwanese rights in Lawrence James’s Empires in the Sun.

  • Second agency top ten this week

    04 Sep 2024

    Congratulations to Julie Shaw author of Coleen Nolan’s A Hand to Hold: The new compassionate and supportive memoir on coming to terms with loss from Loose Women’s Coleen Nolan which is at no 7 in the Sunday Times non-fictiin list.

  • Book on Fifth Crusade sold to Yale

    03 Sep 2024

    Yale have bought World English rights in Tom Smith’s The Egyptian Crusade: Holy War on the Nile the story of the Fifth Crusade.

  • Cathy Glass straight to no 1 again

    03 Sep 2024

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose latest memoir Helpless has gone straight to no 1 in its first week of publication.