Hodder and Stoughton buys real-life Charlotte Gray

Written By: Charlotte Williams Hodder & Stoughton has acquired the account of the life of "real life Charlotte Gray". Pearl Witherington was the only female agent in the Special Operations Executive to run her own network in France during the second world war. Hodder non-fiction publisher Hannah Black bought world rights excluding America and Canada through Elizabeth Sheinkman at Curtis Brown. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Williams Collins has pre-empted a memoir by political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein uncovering his family’s devastating experiences of persecution during the Second World War. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Lyn Macdonald, acclaimed chronicler of World War I, dies at 91

A former radio producer, she interviewed thousands of veterans for books that made her known as “the recording angel of the common soldier.” Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Phil Earle | 'I genuinely thought I was done. I had nothing left to say'

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Obituary: Tom Maschler

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Story of Churchill's daughter-in-law to Virago

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Faber scores middle-grade novel inspired by 'female football legends'

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Mirror Books to publish 'remarkable' World War Two memoir

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Curtis Brown parent company Original Talent withdraws from LBF

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Brown and Morris promoted to agents at Curtis Brown

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Walker to publish Michael Rosen's family tale of the Second World War

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HarperCollins snaps up Gaynor's Second World War novel

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HarperCollins signs World War Two novel

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