Biteback acquires Peter Hain memoir

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 04/04/2011 - 15:00 Biteback has bought the memoir of former Northern Ireland secretary of state and anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain. Managing director Iain Dale bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Guam and South Africa) from Caroline Michel at PFD. Published in January 2012, Outside In charts Hain's political career. An anti-apartheid campaigner from the 1960s to the 1980s, following in the footsteps of his parents who were briefly jailed for their campaigning, Hain was later sent a letter bomb that failed to explode and also framed on a bank theft charge. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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