Some of the agency’s clients and their current publications are listed below. Over the last 25 years we have handled many worldwide best sellers but this is a small, selective agency and we never represent for more than a couple of dozen ‘active’ authors at a time....
FREDERICK TAYLOR His latest book EXORCISING HITLER; THE OCCUPATION AND DENAZIFICATION OF GERMANY was published to brilliant reviews in the UK and US in spring 2011. He is currently under contract to write THE DOWNFALL OF MONEY (the story of the German hyperinflation of the 1920s) and COVENTRY ( the first in-depth history of the most devastating air raid of WW2) - both for Bloomsbury UK and US. www.fredericktaylorhistory.com
ELSPETH THOMPSON My beautiful client and friend Elspeth died in March 2010. Elspeth was for many years the garden correspondant for the Sunday Telegraph and was most recently the author of THE WONDERFUL WEEKEND BOOK (John Murray 2008 and 2010) and, with her friend ROS BADGER (HOMEMADE – Gorgeous things to make with love (Collins). Anyone who reads this should look at the website which her husband keeps up in her memory, and be inspired by someone who created such a beautiful environment and wrote about it so movingly. www.elspethompson.co.uk
VINCENT THURKETTLE is a forester and adventurer. He is writing THE FOODFIRES HANDBOOK Ð everything you want to know about chopping, stacking, seasoning, kindling, smoking, and making the perfect wood fire. Coming from Conran in autumn 2012. He is the father of Daisy below...
DAISY THURKETTLE-ROPER is an academic, a country and western singer and a goldpanner. She is researching a TV series on goldpanning worldwide and writing an autobiographical memoir of searching for gold. www.daisythurkettleroper.com
CHARLES TIMONEY An Englishman who has lived and worked in France for 20 years, Charles is the author of PARDON MY FRENCH and A CERTAIN JE NE SAIS QUOI (both Particular Books.) His passion for very small boats is being indulged while researching DOWNRIVER – in search of the Seine – to be published by Particular Books in early 2013.
RICHARD VAN EMDEN TOMMY'S ARK- the untold story of the animals behind the lines in WW1 was published in November 2010 and THE QUICK AND THE DEAD - Fallen soldiers and their families came out in October 2011 to splendid reviews. Two further titles are under contract to Bloomsbury. MEETING THE ENEMY for publication in 2013 and WORLD WAR ONE IN REAL TIMES for 2014. Additionally his bestselling BOY SOLDIERS OF THE GREAT WAR will be re-issued in June 2012. www.richardvanemden.com
JUDITH WILLS Judith is the UK’s leading writer on healthy eating and diet. She has published over twenty books, many of which have been international bestsellers – THE DIET BIBLE has sold over 250,000 copies. Her most recent titles are THE NEW HOME LARDER (Bantam) and ESCAPE THE FAT TRAP (Kyle Cathie). Her latest book is a collaboration with the multi-million selling author Dr. D.G Hessayon and the c0o-authored THE GARDEN TO KITCHEN EXPERT came from Expert Books, a division of Transworld publishers, in spring 2011.