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News 23 May 2003We have just sold ANZ rights for IN HITLER'S BUNKER to Random House in Australia. A US deal is imminent. The Book Expo rights list is now finalised. It includes numerous books which weren't available at the time of the London Book Fair including NO BALONEY by Frank Maloney. In his biography Maloney lifts the lid on the world of big-time boxing and its household names. Once dubbed the 'Mental Midget' and 'Pugilistic Pigmy' by Don King, he has gone on to have the last laugh over the American promoter and all those who thought he would fail. The Cockney-born son of Irish parents, Frank Maloney once harboured thoughts of becoming a priest, but instead went on to manage Lennox Lewis for 12 years and help him become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Maloney gives a remarkable account of his time with Lewis, revealing stories and offering opinions that can only come from a true insider. He also gives an insight into the way money, sex, drugs, politics, bribery and corruption have played their part in boxing.
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The
Guardian reviewed TED AND SYLVIA by Emma Tennant on
Saturday 24th May.
Two
major illustrated sports books feature on the forthcoming Mainstream
list. In addition to ATHENS TO ATHENS, the massive illustrated
history of the Olympics by David Miller we have signed FOOTBALL
IN OUR TIME by Stuart Clarke. Clarke was responsible for THE
HOMES OF FOOTBALL (Little, Brown 1999) and MORE THAN A MATCH (Ebury 2002).
FOOTBALL IN OUR TIME will be sponsored by the Professional Footballers
Association and the Nationwide Building Society. It includes over 350
pictures and will retail at £20. Stuart Clarke has a museum of
football in the Lake District and the pictures will be part of a touring
exhibition starting on October 9th.