Rights Area

Welcome to the Mainstream web site. Mainstream has always generated a high proportion of its income from serial rights sales and for the last eight years we have had a rights department actively pursuing foreign rights deals which has increased our turnover substantially. In this section of the site you will find information about:

• Serial Rights
• Foreign Rights
• Sub Agents
• International Bestsellers
• Useful Contacts at Mainstream

SERIAL RIGHTS

In the last twelve months our best serial deals have been THE PALACE DIARIES and MURDER IN SAMMARKAND to a leading Sunday newspaper and THE BEGINNING OF THE END to the Sunday Times.

We are based in Edinburgh but have a company flat in London and are members of The Groucho Club, which enables us to maintain good contact with the London based media.

FOREIGN RIGHTS

We attend all the major book fairs, notably the London Book Fair, Book Expo America and the Frankfurt Book Fair. Look out for the Scottish Publishers Stand complete with whisky and tartan tablecloths and you will find Mainstream!

In 2001 our Rights Director, Fiona Brownlee, also went on a global rights trip encompassing New York, Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore. You can read the article from the Bookseller in Acrobat format. She also tries to make annual trips to NYC but additional rights trips have been hampered by the arrival of two children!

Publishers we have sold to recently include Simon and Schuster, USA; Penguin, USA; Greystone Books, Canada; Pan Macmillan, Australia; El Ateneo, Argentina; Bertrand, Brazil; Prozoretz, Bulgaria; Shanghai Translation Publishing House, China; Stari Grad, Croatia; Euromedia, Czech Republic; Sinisukk, Estonia; Dataclub, Finland; Michel Lafon, France ; Heyne, Germany; Patakis, Greece; JPV Utgafa, Iceland; Manas, India; Mondadori, Italy; Hakusui-sha, Japan; Words and Book, Korea; Diana, Mexico; De Boekerij, The Netherlands; N W Damm, Norway; Rebis, Poland; Europa America, Portugal; Curtea Veche, Romania; Ast, Russia; Plaza y Janes, Spain; Bra Bocker, Sweden; Commercial Press, Taiwan; Inkilap, Turkey;

SUB AGENTS

UNLOCKING THE SOLOMON KEY

Simon Cox's guide will be The Solomon Key's essential companion, giving vital background information and shedding new light on the many mysteries at the heart of Dan Brown's new story.

Sold to: de Boekerij, Holland; Editions Michel Lafon, France; Heyne, Germany; Patakis, Greece; Shanghai Translation Publishing House, China; Plaza y Janes, Spain; Mondadori, Italy; Touchstone Firesside (S&S), USA; Bertrand, Brazil; Pan Macmillan, Australia.

 

NO ONE TAKES MY CHILDREN - The Dramatic story of a Mother's Determination to Regain her Kidnapped Son and Daughter.

It is the gripping account of Donya al-Nahi's heroic quest to track down her son and daughter after her Iraqi husband snatched two of their four children.

Sold to Bertlesmann, Poland; Euromedia, Czech Republic; Prisma, Sweden; de Kern, Holland; Harper Collins, Australia.

 

THE GREAT ESCAPERS - The Full Story of the Second World War's Most Remarkable Mass Escape

Tim Carroll tells the story behind some of the brilliant minds who managed to break free from the supposedly indomitable barbed wire and watchtowers of Stalag Luft III.

Sold to Inedita, Spain; Hardie Grant, Australia, Pocket Books (S&S), USA; Landscape; Brazil

 

MASTERMINDS OF TERROR - The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Terrorist Attack the World Has Ever Seen

Nick Fielding and Yosri Fouda's incredible account of how Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed plotted the assaults on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Capitol Hill in 2001

Sold to: Penguin, Australia; Editons du Rocher, France; Europa Verlag, Germany; Kosmos, Holland; Arcade, USA; Newton and Compton, Italy; Diana, Mexico;

 

ONCE I WAS A PRINCESS

This is a tragic memoir by Jacqueline Pascarl whose children were stolen from her by her former husband.

Sold to: Neden Kitap, Turkey; Euromedia, Czech Republic; JPV Utgafa, Iceland; Tirion, Holland; Bastia Verlag, Germany; Wahlstroms, Sweden; N. W. Damm, Norway; also to Bulgaria and Denmark.

 

MR NASTY - Misadventures in the Drug World

Cameron White charts the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of a wannabe player in the global narcotics business.

Sold to: Greystone Books, Canada; Tirion, Holland; Mediar Lazar, Poland; Harper Collins, Australia.

 

JIHAD! The Secret War in Afghanistan

Tom Carew's true insider's account about the secret war in Afghanistan.

Sold to: Pan Macmillan, Australia; Zysk Ska Wdydawnictwo, Poland; World Affairs Press, China; Egont Lademann, Denmark; Kniha, Czech Republic; Uitgeverij Elmar, Holland.

 

THE REAL NUREYEV - An Intimate Memoir of Ballet's Greatest Hero

This is the most revealing account yet published about ballet's greatest hero, written by Nureyev's stage manager and confidante, Carolyn Soutar.

Sold to: Editions Carnot, France; Thomas Dunne (St. Martins Press), USA.

 

IN HITLER'S BUNKER - A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Führer's Last Days

Armin Lehmann's eyewitness account of the Nazi apocalypse.

Sold to: El Ateneo, Argentina; Nase Vojsko, Czech Republic; Jizhou Press, China; Calman-Levy, France; Lyons Press, USA; Random House, Australia.