Dear newsletter subscriber,
Recent Sales
Another busy month in the agency marked by a number of sales including:
Journalist Bobby Friedman's study of party political funding
Too Close for
Comfort: The inside story of political donors and party finance to One
World.
Michael Jago's life of the MI5 agent and novelist
John Bingham: The Man Who Was Smiley bought by Biteback.
Christian Jennings's
Bosnia's
million bones: solving the world's greatest forensic science puzzle to
Palgrave.
The Class
of '41: The Odyssey of West Point Leadership that Shaped a Century & Beyond,
a group biography of the last West Point peacetime graduating class , by
Anne Kazel-Wilcox and PJ Wilcox to University Press of New England.
Sean McMeekin's
The Russian Revolution commissioned by Basic.
Ian Millthorpe's memoir of bringing up eight children after his wife's
death , ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee,
Angie's
Way bought at auction by Simon & Schuster.
The memoirs of Noreen Riols, one of the last surviving females who served in
SOE, They Shall Not Grow Old to Macmillan.
Two further books in the Casey Watson fostering series :
Emma's Story (no 7) and
Tyler's Story (no 8) bought by her regular publishers Harper Collins.
Basque rights in Nessa Carey's
The Epigenetics Revolution.
Complex Chinese rights in Marina Chapman's
The Girl With No
Name: The Incredible True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys
David Craig's
The Great EU Rip-Off to Slovenia
Simplified Chinese rights to Social Sciences Press for three Roger Crowley
titles:
Portuguese rights in Roger Crowley's
Lords of the Navigation: How the Portuguese launched the age of
discovery and the first global empire
Portuguese rights in John Jobling's
U2: The Goal is $oul
Polish rights in Ben McFarlane's
Holiday
SOS
Lithuanian rights in Neil McKenna's
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
Chinese rights in Clare Mulley's life of the World War Two agent
The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and
Lives of Christine Granville
Polish rights in Sam Pivnik's
Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March
and My Fight for Freedom
Polish rights in Linda Porter's
Mary Tudor: The First Queen
French rights in Casey Watson's fostering memoir
Crying for Help:
The Shocking True Story of a Damaged Girl with a Dark Past
Recent Successes
Living Life the Essex Way celebrated 16 weeks in the best seller list
varying between no 3 and no 7 on the hardback non-fiction list.
Daniel Tammet's
Thinking in Numbers, Radio 4 Book of the Week, joined it in the same list at
no 8 giving the agency two hardback top ten best sellers in the same week
whilst Casey Watson's
Little
Prisoners: A tragic story of two siblings trapped in a world of suffering
and abuse remained in the top twenty paperback non-fiction list.
Roger Crowley's
City of Fortune: How Venice won and lost
a naval empire was Sunday Times 'Paperback Pick of the Week'
The rise and fall of the Most Serene Republic of Venice is one of the most
dazzling and extraordinary in history, and Crowley makes a wonderfully
eloquent guide. The story, from Ascension Day 1000 to around 1500, is a
large and diffuse one, but Crowley is such a natural narrative historian,
with such an eye for colourful, telling details and such a knack for
dramatic character sketches, that he is a constant joy to read.
David Long made no 9 in the top 20 e-books of the week with his
The Little Book of London
Books out in September
Greed
Unlimited : How Cameron and Clegg protect the elites while squeezing the
rest of us by David Craig with extracts rights sold to Daily Mail.
Another Forgotten Child by Cathy Glass
The Penguin Companion to European Union by
Anthony Teasdale
The paperback of
Blitz
Kids by Sean Longden
The US editions of Juliet Barker's
The
Bront's and Adrian Weale's
The SS: A New History
Current Submissions
Helen Croydon's
F*ck the Fairytale: A
contented singleton explores alternative romance.
Peter Daughtrey's discovery of the lost city of
Atlantis and The Silver City. US rights sold to Pegasus.
Barbara Stcherbatcheff's
Women on Top: What the world's top businesswomen would change if they were in charge
Gavin Evans's
Gender Bender: men, women and evolutionary
psychologists which sets out to show that male and female emotional and
intellectual capacities are moulded more by culture than biology and
Black brain, white brain which draws from recent discoveries in
palaeontology, archaeology and biological anthropology to argue that race is
useful as no more than a short-hand descriptive term and that the genetic
differences between people from all over the world are miniscule compared
with other species.
Jon Frost's memoirs of his time in HM Customs from his first posting in
uniform in airport preventive work to the dangerous and sometimes violent
work of following, watching and arresting hardened criminal drugs gangs at
home and abroad,
Shooting the Queen's Corgis
Ian Graham's Impostors which tells the stories of the boldest and most notorious
impostors of the past 500 years.
David Haviland Between the Lines which reveals some of the most fascinating, amusing, and little-known stories behind our favourite novels, poems and plays.
John Jobling's
U2: The Goal is $oul, the first unauthorised biography of U2 to document and analyse their 35-year career objectively, going beyond the myth to present a fascinating warts-and-all portrait of the Irish rock band. US and Portuguese rights already sold.
Music producer and song writer Bob Johnston's memoirs of working with
amongst others Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Simon & Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen,
Aretha Franklin, The Byrds, Louis Armstrong, Paul Revere & the Raiders, The
Click Clacks, Charlie Daniels, and Arcade Fire
Is It Rolling, Bob?
David Long's
Spy's
London, a walking guide to the espionage capital of the world.
Debbie McDonald's
The Mysterious Lives of Moura Budberg on the spy
and lover of H G Wells and Maxim Gorky.
Chris Marinello's
Raider of the Lost Art: The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey
into the World of Stolen Art
Tim Newark's
Black Soldiers in White Armies: Race, Class
and War, the first popular history book to tell the epic story of African
origin soldiers in British and American armies in their words, taken from
personal journals, diaries and interviews.
Sonia Oatley's poignant memoir of her murdered daughter
Bye, Mam, I love you.
Stewardess Victoria Peters' humorous and sexy memoirs
Fly Me!
Jamie Pike's
The Ultimate Guide to Filming
Locations in New York City an illustrated walking tour of New York film
scenes.
Economist Gary Smith's collection of dozens of examples of tortuous
reasoningFooling Ourselves
David Craig contributed several articles including What PLR and ALCS can do for you and a series of five daily pieces giving financial advice to writers Money tips for Writers
Best wishes, Andrew Lownie
