Dear newsletter subscriber,
It has been Cathy Glass's month with her first book Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story
of a Broken Child, going straight to no 1 on the
New York Times e book bestseller list and A Baby's Cry no 1 on UK Amazon Paid Kindle . Her latest book Another Forgotten Child , which spent three weeks at no 2, has
now been in the top twenty non-fiction paperbacks for over three months
and she has now sold over a million copies of her
books.
Other successes this month include:
The agency having three titles concurrently in the top ten
paperback non-fiction list including Casey Watson's Too Hurt to Stay
at no 6 and Sam Faiers' Living Life the Essex Way at no 10
Kerry Katona's autobiography Still Standing: The autobiography serialised over two days by the
Mirror.
Robert Winston's Science Experiments, ghosted by agency author Ian Graham won the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2012.
Patrick Dillon's The Story of Britain was short-listed for The Society of Authors ALCS award.
Agency author Hugh Barker's Hedge
Britannia was nominated for Inspirational Book
of the Year at the Garden Media Awards
Julian Maclaren-Ross's novel
Of Love and Hunger: With an introduction by D.J.
Taylor was Radio 4's Book at Bedtime and the author subject of a Radio 4 profile.
Gurpareet Bains' Indian Superspices made Huffington Post's 50 best cookbooks of 2012.
The agency remains top for deals in the UK non-fiction category on
Publishers Marketplace with 17 deals in the last 12 months and 85
overall. The no 2 and 3 slots have respectively 11 and 6.
Recent Articles
Addressing Me on submission salutations
Favourite Books of 2012 chosen by agency authors
Favourite Books of 2012 part 2
An interview with Andrew Lownie can be found at
http://www.literaryrejections.com/andrew-lownie/
Andrew Lownie's regular column and an interview with new fiction agent
David Haviland in Words with Jam is at
http://issuu.com/wordswithjam/docs/wwjdecember2012online?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage&pageNumber=36
http://issuu.com/wordswithjam/docs/wwjdecember2012online?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage&pageNumber=37
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The agency website currently lists 234 authors and 649 books with 2062 book reviews and a total of 1,126 rights sales.
2012 Sales
There were over 40 UK sales broken down as follows with some more
to be announced in the New Year:
BITEBACK
David Bullock's candidate for Jack the Ripper The Man Who Would Be
Jack
Michael Jago's lThe Man Who Was George Smiley: The
Life of John Bingham
MAINSTREAM
Marina Chapman's memoir The Girl With No Name: The Incredible
True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys
FABER
Roger Crowley's Lords of the Navigation: How the
Portuguese launched the age of discovery and the first global
empire
ICON
Jeremy Clay's gift book
Lion Loose in Llandrindod: And Other Singular Tales from the Victorian
Press
James Davies's Cracked: The unhappy truth about
psychiatry
Sean McMeekin's July 1914: Countdown to War
Peter Padfield's Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of World War Two
Geoff Roberts' Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy
Zhukov (sold by Random House US)
ONEWORLD
Bobby Friedman's Too Close for Comfort: The inside story of political donors and party
finance
CONSTABLE
Jon Frosts memoir of life as a Customs officer Shooting the Queen's
Corgis
Paul Anthony Jones's word book Haggard Hawks and Paltry
Poltroons
David Long's anthologyBizarre London.
HARPER COLLINS
Cathy Glass's fostering memoirs Another Forgotten
Child and Please Don't Take My
Baby and her Happy Mealtimes - for Kids: Quick and
simple meals that children love.
Susan Ottaway's Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The
True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline
Nearne
Casey Watson's fostering memoirs Emma's Story (no
7) and Tyler's Story (no
8)
HEAD OF ZEUS
Piu Das Gupta's They eat horses, don't they?: Myths
and facts about the French
SIMON & SCHUSTER
Kris Hollington's Unthinkable: The Shocking Scandal of
Britain's Trafficked Children
Emily Mackenzie's memoir I
Just Want To Go Home
Ian Millthorpe's memoir of bringing up eight childrenMum's Way
ORION
Robert Hutchinson's Thomas Blood: Stealing the Crown Jewels
Lawrence James's Churchill's
Empire
Kerry Katona's Still Standing: The
autobiography
SIDGWICK
Ian Knight's history of the nineteenth British army Warriors in
Scarlet.
SUMMERSDALE
David Havland's literary trivia book
Between the Lines
Paul Anthony Jones's The British Isles: A Trivia
Gazetteer
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Frank Ledwidge's Investment in Blood: The true cost of
Britain's disastrous Afghan Adventure
HODDER
Carol Lee's memoir To
Be Beloved
Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March
and My Fight for Freedom
JOHN BLAKE
Emily Lloyd's acting memoir Wish I Was
There
Ross Slater's account of his undercover activities The
Insider
Jimmy Tippett Jnr's autobiography Born
Gangster
MACMILLAN
Noreen Riol's memoir of her wartime SOE career They Shall Not Grow Old
SEVERN HOUSE
The latest in MJ Trow's historical novel series Scorpions' Nest
and Jealous Honour
PENGUIN
Reg Twigg's World War Two POW memoir Life on the Burma
Railway
There were 15 North American contracts as follows:
PEGASUS
Marina Chapman's The Girl With No Name: The Incredible
True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys
Peter Daughtrey's suggestion for the lost city of Atlantis
Atlantis and The Silver
City.
James Davies's Cracked: The unhappy truth about
psychiatry
Tim Good's latest UFO book Earth: An Alien
Enterprise
Roger Howard's account of Operation
Damocles
BASIC
Mother and daughter team Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez's Maths on Trial
looking at how maths was used in ten court cases.
Sean McMeekin's revisionist history The Russian
Revolution
RANDOM HOUSE
Roger Crowley's Lords of the Navigation: How the
Portuguese launched the age of discovery and the first global
empire
SOURCE BOOKS
Ian Graham's collection Impostors
PALGRAVE
Christian Jennings's Bosnia's Million Bones : Solving the
world's greatest forensic science puzzle
ST MARTIN'S PRESS
John Jobling's look at the rock group U2: The Goal is
$oul
Clare Mulley's The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and
Lives of Christine Granville
Sam Pivnik's
Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March and My Fight for
Freedom (sold through Hodder)
Nick Pope's UFO book Rendezvous at
Rendlesham
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND PRESS
Anne Kazel and PJ Wilcox's West Point '41 : The Class that Shaped
America's Future
POLAND (through the Graal Agency)
Nick Best's Five Days That Shocked The World: An
Oral History of Europe at the End of World War
Two
Joe Fuhrmann's Rasputin: The Untold
Story
Kevin Ivison's memoir Red One: A Bomb Disposal Expert on the
Front Line
Sean Longden's T
Force: The Race for Nazi War Secrets
1945
Clare Mulley's The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and
Lives of Christine Granville
Sam Pivnik's Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March
and My Fight for Freedom (sold by
Hodder)
Linda Porter's Mary Tudor: The First
Queen
Cathy Glass's Run Mummy, Run!,
The Girl in the
Mirror, Another Forgotten
Child (sold by Harper Collins) and A
Baby's Cry (sold by Harper Collins)
Casey Watson's Crying for Help: The Shocking True
Story of a Damaged Girl with a Dark Past (sold by
Harper Collins)
Ben Macfarland's Holiday
SOS
Claudia Spahr's Right Time Baby : The Complete Guide
to Later Motherhood (sold by Hay
House)
Barbara Davies's City Girl (sold by
Random House)
Christian Wolmar's Blood, Iron and
Gold (sold by Atlantic)
ITALY
Nick Best's Five Days That Shocked The World: An
Oral History of Europe at the End of World War
Two
The Girl With No Name: The Incredible
True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys
Sam Pivnik's Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March
and My Fight for Freedom (sold by
Hodder)
GERMANY
Marina Chapman's The Girl With No Name: The Incredible
True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys
Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez's Maths on Trial
(sold by Basic)
Roger Crowley's Lords of the Navigation: How the
Portuguese launched the age of discovery and the first global
empire
HOLLAND
Marina Chapman's The Girl With No Name: The Incredible
True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys
Duncan Falconer's thrillers The Mercenary and
Assassin
Sam Pivnik's Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March
and My Fight for Freedom (sold by
Hodder)
BRAZIL
Marina Chapman's The Girl With No Name: The Incredible
True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys
Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez's Maths on Trial
(sold by Basic)
Roger Crowley's Empires of the
Sea
Geoff Roberrts' Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy
Zhukov(sold by Random House)
FRANCE
Marina Chapman's The Girl With No Name: The Incredible
True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys
Sam Pivnik's Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March
and My Fight for Freedom (sold by
Hodder)
Casey Watson's Crying for Help: The Shocking True
Story of a Damaged Girl with a Dark Past (sold by
Harper Collins)
PORTUGAL
Roger Crowley's Lords of the Navigation: How the
Portuguese launched the age of discovery and the first global
empire
John Jobling's U2: The Goal is
$oul
Casey Watson's The Boy No one Loved: A heartbreaking
true story of Abuse, Abandonment and Betrayal (sold
by Harper Collins)
CZECH
Nick Best's Five Days That Shocked The World: An
Oral History of Europe at the End of World War
Two
RUSSIA
Alicia Eaton's Fix Your Life with
NLP
CATALAN
Nessa Carey's The Epigenetics
Revolution
Sam Pivnik's Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March
and My Fight for Freedom (sold by
Hodder)
DENMARK
Sam Pivnik's Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March
and My Fight for Freedom (sold by
Hodder)
SWEDEN
Adrian Weale's The SS: A New
History
FRENCH CANADIAN
Randall Hansen's Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance
after July 20, 1944
SLOVENIA
David Craig's The Great EU
Rip-Off (sold by Random House)
ROMANIA
Daniel Tammet's Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir of
Asperger's and An Extraordinary Mind
GREECE
Daniel Tammet's Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir of
Asperger's and An Extraordinary Mind
LITHUANIA
Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar
Wilde
FINLAND
Geoff Robert's Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy
Zhukov(sold by Random House)
INDIAN
Alicia Eaton's Fix Your Life with
NLP
TURKEY
Roger Crowley's Constantinople: The Last Great
Siege
ARAB
Alex Warren and Lin Noueihed's The Battle for the Arab Spring :
Revolution, counter-revolution and the making of a new
era
CHINA
Nick Best's Five Days That Shocked The World: An
Oral History of Europe at the End of World War
Two
Marina Chapman's The Girl With No Name: The Incredible
True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys
Roger Crowley's Constantinople: The Last Great
Siege, Empires of the Sea
and City of Fortune: How Venice won and
lost a naval empire
Stewart Lansley's The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades
of the Super-Rich and the Economy
Clare Mulley's The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and
Lives of Christine Granville
Geoff Roberts' Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy
Zhukov(sold by Random House)
Christian Wolmar's Blood, Iron and
Gold (sold by Atlantic)
JAPAN
Geoff Roberts' Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy
Zhukov (sold by Random House)
Daniel Tammet's Thinking in
Numbers
KOREA
Stewart Lansley's The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades
of the Super-Rich and the Economy
Thailand
Daniel Tammet's Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir of
Asperger's and An Extraordinary Mind
I am very grateful to my agency team without whom I couldn't operate:
Jing Dong for all he does to maintain the website; to Meg Davis who
handles my film rights (a spate of film deals will be announced next
month); Camilla Ferrier, Jemma McDonagh Georgina Le Grice, Sarah
McFadden, Charlotte Bruton and Farhat Malik at the Marsh Agency
who sell translation rights; Andrew Subramanian and Vivien Phung who
take care of my financial affairs and Hazel Hill who assiduously checks
the royalty statements. A special thanks to David Haviland who, not
only reads for the agency, but I'm delighted to welcome as a colleague
who will be building his own fiction list. More anon in the January
newsletter but until then best wishes for Christmas and the New
Year.
Best, Andrew
