MY SISTER LIVES ON THE MANTLEPIECE by Annabel Pitcher has been optioned by Alexandre Jouan of Green Mill Way.
MY SISTER LIVES ON THE MANTLEPIECE optioned by Alexandre Jouan
Author: Katerina
TIGERS IN RED WEATHER optioned by Stephen Garratt
TIGERS IN RED WEATHER by Liza Klaussmann has been optioned by Stephen Garratt (producer of Le Carre’s THE NIGHT MANAGER)
THE BALLROOM optioned by Parallel Films
Photo courtesy of Jonathan Greet. THE BALLROOM by Anna Hope has been optioned by Parallel Films for award-winning film-maker Aisling Walsh (AN INSPECTOR CALLS, MAISIE) to write and direct.
Martin Walker’s crime series, BRUNO optioned by UFA-Fiction
Martin Walker’s best-selling crime series – BRUNO – set in the Dordogne has been optioned by prolific German producer UFA-Fiction.
THE AFTERMATH to be released March/April 2019 starring Keira Knightley
THE AFTERMATH by Rhidian Brook, starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skaarsgard and Jason Clarke, will be released internationally by Fox Searchlight in March/April 2019. Watch the trailer here
The Hare with Amber Eyes optioned by Rachael Horowitz
THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES by Edmund de Waal has been optioned by Rachael Horowitz (PATRICK MELROSE, MONEYBALL, MAGGIE’S PLAN)
Lucy Worsley appointed an OBE
TV historian Dr Lucy Worsley has been appointed an OBE for services to history and heritage. Lucy Worsley is Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and the author of many non-fiction books including If Walls Could Talk, Cavalier, Jane Austen at Home, and her biography of Queen Victoria published in September this year. She has also written three novels for younger readers: Eliza… Read more »
New Statesman ‘Best Books of 2018’
As the end-of-year ‘best books’ roundups start to roll in, it’s always exciting to see our authors making the lists. Featured in “Best books of 2018” by New Statesman: I Am Dynamite!, Sue Prideaux’s biography of Nietzsche (Faber & Faber), Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads (Bloomsbury), and Lords of the Desert: Britain’s Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle… Read more »
New deals for Diarmaid MacCulloch
Diarmaid MacCulloch is planning a major work: SEX AND THE CHURCH – A HISTORY for delivery in 2023. It has been commissioned by Penguin Press UK, Viking USA and C.H Beck in Germany.
New Deal for Richard Ovenden
Bodley’s Librarian Richard Ovenden’s BURNING THE BOOKS: A HISTORY OF THE DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE has been acquired in a pre-empt by Georgina Laycock at John Murray, for publication in 2020. Critica pre-empted Spanish language rights, and in Italy, Solferino won an 8-way auction. Suhrkamp have German rights after a 4-way auction, and Arabic rights… Read more »