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Patrick Walsh goes solo with new agency

Agent Patrick Walsh is to leave the agency he founded – Conville & Walsh – to set up on his own in Soho, taking authors such as Gaia Vince, Andrew Wulf and Tom Holland with him. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan buys historical title by Nixey

Pan Macmillan has acquired a book about how the forces of Christianity destroyed the texts of the ancient Greeks and Romans. The Darkening Age, by historian and journalist Catherine Nixey, will tell the story of how all over the ancient Roman world books were burnt, temples were thrown down and... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Howard Marks follow-up for Pan Mac

Pan Macmillan has pre-empted Mr Smiley by Howard Marks for a “solid six-figure sum”. The book is the follow-up to Marks’ autobiography Mr Nice, about his life in the marijuana trade that ended with him receiving a 25-year prison sentence in America. Non-fiction publisher Robin Harvie... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Engineering title to Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury has acquired a first book by engineer Roma Agrawal following an auction. Agrawal is a prize-winning engineer who began working on the Shard, western Europe's tallest building, aged just 23. Commissioning editor Natalie Bellos signed world rights to Building Storeys from Patrick... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber acquires Langlands debut

Archaeologist and BBC presenter Alex Langlands is writing a book arguing that making things is good for the soul. Walter Donohue at Faber & Faber commissioned Cræft, spelt the Anglo-Saxon way, in a deal with Patrick Walsh at Conville & Walsh. Langlands has presented programmes for the... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Auctions for North Korea debut

Patrick Walsh of Conville & Walsh said he has had "very serious interest worldwide... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Science book deals at Frankfurt

Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Fri, 14/10/2011 - 11:25 Popular science writer Simon Singh has accepted a six-figure world English language rights pre-empt made at Frankfurt for his next book, The Mathematics of The Simpsons. The deal, Singh's first since winning the legal case... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Press signs Defence of Cats

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 26/07/2011 - 12:00 Penguin Press has signed the second book by professor John Bradshaw, author of In Defence of Dogs, with felines the topic this time. Will Goodlad acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to the book,... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harvill Secker to publish death row lawyer memoir

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 30/06/2011 - 13:09 Harvill Secker has acquired a non-fiction title about the work of British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith over 25 years to save those on death row in the US. Editor-at-large Rebecca Carter bought UK and Commonwealth rights... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador pre-empts two debuts

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 19/04/2011 - 15:28 Picador has pre-empted on two novels by debut fiction authors, one a literary thriller set in the diving world, and the other following a fictional 1930s Hollywood star. Publisher Paul Baggaley acquired UK and... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Murray pics up Harkaway on digital

Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Fri, 15/04/2011 - 11:33 Roland Philipps at John Murray has bought a book on digital written by the author Nick Harkaway, which argues that the new technologies will make us more human. Philipps bought British Commonwealth rights through Patrick Walsh... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picasso's genius explored by neuroscience

Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Fri, 11/03/2011 - 11:22 A popular science book by British neuroscientist Professor Christine Temple about the artist Pablo Picasso is the first acquisition by Jamie Joseph for Constable & Robinson's new psychology list. Joseph bought UK &... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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