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Last updated 23 March 07

Scary Nuns a collection of truly frightening photographs of nuns and inspirational text has just been published by William Morrow in the USA. It’s the perfect Easter gift for lapsed Catholics.

We have just delivered our large-format co-edition book The Rock n’ Roll Age for publication in June 2007. The English language publisher in North America and the UK is Reader’s Digest, while Collection Rolf Heyne are publishing in Germany and Reed New Zealand have bought it for New Zealand. Rights for other territories are under negotiation.

The website companion for our forthcoming book Fifty Ways To Leave your Lover, www.50waysto.net went live in March and is proving extremely popular, gathering entries from all over the world. There are oodles of sad, bad and hilarious stories of the jilted on there — it’s not for the faint hearted.

We have recently signed a deal with Atlantic Books to produce Forty Years of Hurt, an illustrated history of the English football team from 1966 to 2006, published to coincide with Euro 2008.

We are delighted to announce that we have agreed with Reader’s Digest to deliver the Encylopedia of the Unseen World for publication in North America in Autumn 2008.

New titles are being added to our Inspirations series with Inspirations Elvis just delivered to Andrews McMeel for publication in the USA to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the King’s death in August 2007.

We have recently delivered copies of the Book of Secrets and Book of Lies to ABC, Australia. We congratulate Andrews McMeel on their continued success with both Secrets and Lies in the North American market, where they are now in reprint for the third time. Italian rights for both have gone to Gruppo Saggiatore imprint ISBN who have produced marvelous editions of both books.

The Conspiracy Books series has proven a great success and in addition to the rights in the series originally sold to Anova Books in the UK, they have been translated into seven languages and we have concluded agreements with:

The Conspiracy Encyclopedia has recently been published in a new paperback edition in the UK by Anova Books.

We have just delivered a new edition of Le Tour, our photographic history of the world-famous Le Tour de France cycle race for publication in May 2007 by Collins in the UK and Reed New Zealand in New Zealand.

A deal has just been agreed to sell rights in Flick to Kick, our book about the cult table football game Subbuteo, to Gruppo Saggiatore, Italy.