Rebecca McNally at Bloomsbury, has acquired world rights in the first three books in Rohan Gavin's brand-new detective series, KNIGHTLEY & SON.
Bloomsbury, who will also publish in the US, plan to release the first in the series, KNIGHTLEY & SON, in July 2013, whilst Rohan is hard at work on the next two!
For more details on the deal, see the Bookseller, here.
Winners will be announced at a ceremony to be held on Sunday 27 January 2013. An original radio play commissioned by Woolyback Productions for BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play, ON IT was written, directed and narrated by Tony Pitts, starring Maxine Peake and Adam Gillen. It won the Sony Gold Radio Award, Best Drama 2012 and was Radio Times Critics Choice.
Meanwhile, the second series of Tony Pitts' SHEDTOWN starts on Radio 4 at 11pm on Thursday 10th January. Commissioned by Woolyback Productions, the show is narrated by Maxine Peake and the cast includes Stephen Mangan and Ronni Ancona.
Reviews for series 2:
"If you think of radio in colour this comedy comes in shades of sepia and charcoal with the occasional bright patch of green. It's also pretty addictive, a floaty tale of people looking for new starts, picking themselves up from failed ones, seeking change and consolation." -- Radio Highlights, The Telegraph
Reviews for series 1:
"Dreamy and hilarious" -- The Observer
"It's a bit like Under Milk Wood with touches of Father Ted" -- The Telegraph
Blake Friedmann are delighted to announce the creation of a new role in the agency. Louise Brice will become Foreign Rights, Digital and Audio Manager, joining the agency on 14 January 2013.
Louise has more than ten years of publishing experience, specifically licensing and selling subsidiary rights. Most recently Louise worked at AudioGO as Business Development Manager. Past roles include Content Acquisition Manager with Audible and Rights Manager with Atlantic Books.
Louise said: 'My recent roles have provided me with an invaluable insight into the digital world. I'm thrilled to be joining such a dynamic team, to be working with world class authors and to be back in the business of selling rights.'
Carole Blake and Isobel Dixon said: 'We are pleased to have found in Louise someone with exactly the right mix of experience to fill this new post. We are looking forward to working with her as part of our team.'
In creating this new role, Blake Friedmann are entering another phase of expansion, which includes adding another book agent to the team in the near future. We look forward to working with Louise in the new year, and to seeing her take our energetic rights selling to new heights.
For more information contact Carole Blake: carole@blakefriedmann.co.uk
Co-Managing Director Julian Friedmann recently spoke to a packed TEDx audience at the Questors Theatre in Ealing as part of a panel of experts addressing the subject of 'The Story'.
Julian's lecture was titled 'The Mystery of Storytelling', and you can now see a video of the talk on theTEDxEaling website here.
Ridley Scott's company Scott Free London has snapped up the film rights to Anne de Courcy's best-selling book THE FISHING FLEET after fierce competition from rival film and TV companies.
De Courcy's book is a vivid and compelling social history of husband-hunting in the Raj, and describes the exploits of young British women sent by the boatload to India to find love and marriage.
Scott Free London will develop the book as a theatrical release feature film, with Liza Marshall producing. Anne will act as development consultant.
The deal was negotiated by Conrad Williams for Blake Friedmann Literary Agency and Carlo Dusi for Scott Free London.
'Anne de Courcy brilliantly evokes the era…vivid descriptions of tiger hunts, tea dances to the agonies of prickly heat... The women who married into the Raj were true adventurers. De Courcy's book restores their proper reputation: as brave, sometimes batty, irredeemably British heroines' - Daily Mail
'A fascinating and evocatively told history…of the women who risked all for a husband.' - Financial Times.
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