Annual Archives: 2019

13th December 2019

Walker signs three-book deal with Greg Jenner

Walker Books has signed a three-book deal with “Horrible Histories” historian Greg Jenner. Commissioning editor Daisy Jellicoe acquired world, all languages rights for one gift... more »
13th November 2019

Bloomsbury buys Henry Scowcroft’s ‘professional and personal’ cancer memoir

A memoir billed as a “popular-science detective story” by science writer Henry Scowcroft has gone to Bloomsbury imprint Green Tree, focusing on his fiancée’s experience of advanced... more »
8th October 2019

Head of Zeus signs Zoe Somerville’s debut in two-book deal

Head of Zeus has struck a two-book deal with debut author and English teacher Zoë Somerville. Madeleine O’Shea, commissioning editor at Head of Zeus, has... more »
3rd October 2019

R.G. Adams’ procedural ALLEGATION snapped up for TV

Award-winning producer John Giwa-Amu of Red & Black Films and acclaimed executive music producer Mark Lo of Asylum Giant have partnered in acquiring TV rights... more »
26th September 2019

Oneworld and St Martin’s Press acquire Sarah Gristwood’s new book THE TUDORS IN LOVE

Oneworld and St Martin’s Press have acquired the new book from Tudor historian Sarah Gristwood, The Tudors in Love: How Romance Made and Marred the... more »
19th July 2019

Michael Joseph pre-empts Alex Pavesi’s ‘dazzling’ debut

Michael Joseph has triumphed over eight other publishers to pre-empt a “dazzlingly clever” debut mystery novel Eight Detectives by former Waterstones bookseller Alex Pavesi. Publisher Joel Richardson acquired... more »
11th July 2019

Headline Home pre-empts Akemi Tanaka’s THE POWER OF CHOWA

Headline Home has pre-empted a book by Akemi Tanaka on Chowa, the Japanese philosophy of finding balance in life. Senior commissioning editor Anna Steadman scooped... more »
22nd May 2019

Michael O’Mara Books to publish biography of Margaret Beaufort by historian Dr Nicola Tallis

Michael O’Mara Books is to publish the first comprehensive popular biography in over thirty years of Margaret Beaufort – mother of Henry VII, the first... more »
17th May 2019

Bloomsbury snaps up Alice Bell’s OUR BIGGEST EXPERIMENT

Jim Martin, publisher of Bloomsbury Sigma, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Alice Bell’s Our Biggest Experiment: The History of Climate Change from Donald Winchester. Sigma... more »
17th May 2019

Martin Edwards nominated in two categories at this years CWA Dagger Awards

Congratulations to Martin Edwards who has been nominated in two categories at this years CWA Daggers. He is up for the CWA Sapere Historical Dagger... more »
28th March 2019

PRH Children’s buys feminist YA series by Rebecca Elliott

PRH Children’s has bought a feminist teen series about an aspiring female comic by Rebecca Elliott, with the first book in the series Pretty Funny to be... more »
26th March 2019

Bonnier Zaffre lands Mara Timon’s ‘brilliant’ female spy thriller debut

Zaffre has landed debut author Mara Timon’s “brilliant, expertly-researched” espionage thriller following a female Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent. World rights for City of Spies were acquired... more »
23rd January 2019

Ajay Chowdhury scoops Harvill Secker BAME crime competition

Tech founder Ajay Chowdhury has won the inaugural Harvill Secker and Bloody Scotland competition with Arvon to find a new crime writer from a BAME (black,... more »