Harvill Secker has snapped up First World War thriller Two Storm Wood by British writer Philip Gray. Editorial director for crime and thrillers Jade Chandler acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Nicola Barr at the Bent Agency. The title is set for publication in May 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-24 21:42:00 UTC ]
Amelia Hodgson has been promoted to rights agent, a year after joining The Bent Agency (TBA). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebury Press editor Katie Seaman has bought world rights from Sarah Hornsley at The Bent Agency in Almost Adults, a “laugh-out-loud debut novel celebrating female friendship” by freelance journalist Ali Pantony. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bent Agency is expanding by hiring Zoë Plant, formerly a senior scout at Daniela Schlingmann Literary Scouting, as a literary agent. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary agent Molly Ker Hawn has been appointed director of The Bent Agency UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced the winner of their first BAME scholarship sponsored by the Bent Agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Children’s Book Writers (SCBWI) and Illustrators will launch a BAME scholarship sponsored by the Bent Agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary agent Nicola Barr has left Greene & Heaton after six years to join The Bent Agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Manning, formerly an agent at United Talent Agency, is joining the Bent Agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Robin Stevens’ children’s detective series Murder Most Unladylike has been optioned for television and film by independent production company Pilot Media. Pilot Media optioned the rights from Emily Hayward Whitlock, head of book to film at The Artists’ Partnership, who was acting on behalf of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Children's Books (MCB) has acquired a YA comedy about a group of fangirls from debut US author Goldy Moldavsky. Kill the Boy Band is a fictional account of what happens when a group of fangirls accidentally kidnap their least favourite member of their most favourite boy band, and is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired a YA romance from journalist Harriet Reuter Hapgood for a six-figure sum. The Square Root of Summer is described as a YA contemporary with a twist, in which seventeen-year-old physics prodigy Gottie Oppenheimer navigates a summer of grief, trying to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]