Author: Annette Crossland

Steve Matthews was born in the UK in 1953, migrating to Australia in 1985. At the age of 55 he sold his business interests to fulfill a lifetime’s ambition to write professionally. Since then Steve’s acclaimed children’s books have been published in Australia, UK, Canada and the USA and his work in children’s literacy at… Read more »

Hera Books acquires the sequel to Awais Khan’s In the Company of Strangers A for Authors Agency Ltd is delighted to announce that Hera Books has acquired IN THE SHADOWS OF LOVE, the sequel to Awais Khan’s acclaimed novel In the Company of Strangers. Keshini Naidoo, co-founder and publisher of Hera Books, bought World English… Read more »

A for Authors Agency Ltd are delighted to announce that Sayantan Ghosh, Executive Editor at Simon & Schuster India, has acquired Awais Khan’s Someone Like Her from Annette Crossland at A for Authors Agency Ltd., for publication in India and the sub-continent in Autumn 2023 with a high-profile press and marketing campaign. Sayantan Ghosh said:… Read more »

A for Authors Agency Ltd is delighted to announce that one of the biggest stars of South Asia, Mahira Khan, actor/producer at par with the biggest names worldwide in the business, and Nina Kashif, producer/director with dozens of international hits under her belt, have acquired the rights of This House of Clay and Water through… Read more »

N.N. Jehangir is a Pakistani writer. His first novel, Sektor 47, is the first book in a sci-fi series. N.N. Jehangir has an MA in Creative Writing with a High Merit from Birkbeck University London and an LLB from University of London. He is 27 years old and lives in Lahore with his family.

We are delighted to announce that Danielle Ramsay’s haunting and compelling thriller THE PERFECT HUSBAND is out today from Boldwood Books in Ebook, Audio and Paperback format. Available from all good bookshops and online retailers.

We are delighted to announce that A.A. Chaudhuri’s latest novel THE FINAL PARTY is published today by Hera Books. Available now in Ebook and Paperback from all good bookshops and online retailers.

We are delighted to reveal the cover for Awais Khan’s new novel, SOMEONE LIKE HER. It will be published in Ebook, Audio and Paperback by Orenda Books in the UK on August 17th, 2023. The book is now available for pre-order from all good bookshops and online retailers. Here’s a bit about the book: A… Read more »

Danielle Ramsay is the best-selling Scottish author of nine novels, including five Jack Brady crime novels set in a small seaside resort in the North East of England. These were followed by a dark thriller, The Last Cut. She has recently written three standalone psychological thrillers published by Boldwood Books, The Perfect Husband, My Best… Read more »

JJ Thomas recently took early retirement from a long career in the British Civil Service. During the last few years of her career she travelled in Africa and the Caribbean helping the OECD. Having lived in Greece, London, Edinburgh and the East Midlands she has recently returned to her native North-East England. Her two passions… Read more »

A for Authors Agency Ltd is delighted to announce that Archna Sharma, Publisher at Neem Tree Press, together with Dr Sofia Rehman, has acquired World Rights (excluding India/Pakistan) for THE STORYTELLER by Faiqa Mansab, from Annette Crossland at A for Authors Agency. Faiqa Mansab’s debut novel THIS HOUSE OF CLAY AND WATER was published to… Read more »

A for Authors Agency Ltd is delighted to announce that Caroline Ridding, Publisher at Boldwood Books, has acquired World Rights for three psychological thrillers by Danielle Ramsay, from Annette Crossland at A for Authors Agency. The first book, The Missing Husband is due to be published in Spring 2023. Danielle Ramsay is the author of… Read more »

Hera Books has acquired a further three untitled psychological thrillers from A.A. Chaudhuri. Keshini Naidoo, co-founder and publishing director, acquired digital and print World English language rights from Annette Crossland of A for Authors Agency. Naidoo commented: ‘I am delighted that Hera will continue to be the home of A.A. Chaudhuri’s multi-layered, complex and gripping… Read more »

Annette Crossland of A for Authors Agency Ltd. is delighted to announce that The Book Guild Ltd. has acquired publication rights to Shirin Amani Azari’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN UPPSALA. A moving memoir detailing Azari and her family’s transplantation to Sweden from Iran during the Iraq-Iran War in the 1980s, ONCE UPON A TIME… Read more »

Annette Crossland at A for Authors Literary Agency Ltd. acting in conjunction with Helen Edwards Rights Agency and Simona Kessler SRL are delighted to announce that Romanian publication rights for Awais Khan’s NO HONOUR have been sold to Bogdan Hrib of S.C. Tritonic Books S.R.L., Romania. All enquiries to Helen Edwards Rights Agency.

Originally from the United States, F. Levie Britt has spent his entire adult life as a European ex-patriot, living in London, Paris, Palma de Majorca and Fuengirola, Spain, before finally settling in Sweden, first in the university town of Umea, 250 miles south of the Arctic circle (where he learned to eat, but not like,… Read more »

Rob Barrow is a writer, musician and Japanese Cinema fan who travelled extensively before settling in Cyprus with his family. Born and raised in Barnstaple, Rob graduated from the University of Gloucestershire in 2008 with a degree in Film Studies. It wasn’t until a decade had passed that he started to use his degree the… Read more »

Faiqa Mansab is a Pakistani writer.  She holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a high distinction from Kingston University London and an MA in Gender and Cultural Studies from Birkbeck University London. Faiqa was the recepient of the prestigious British Chevening Scholarship 2019-2020. She also has an Mphil in English Literature from Pakistan. She works… Read more »

Annette Crossland of A for Authors Agency is delighted to announce that Keshini Naidoo, Publishing Director at Hera Books, has acquired digital and print World English Language Rights for A.A. Chaudhuri’s thrilling new psychological thriller and a further, untitled thriller. Keshini says: ‘When A.A. Chaudhuri’s submission came in, I lost a day reading this utterly gripping,… Read more »

It should be no surprise that Richard Chesterton has a creative gene as he has a family background in writing being the great, great and more greats nephew of GK Chesterton. The creativity also came from his father, a drummer who played in the bands Love Affair, Cymbaline, and The Flies, all of whom had top ten… Read more »

Annette Crossland of A for Authors Agency Ltd is delighted to announce that Aimee Hogston, Publishing and Marketing Executive at Isis Audio, Oakhill and Soundings, divisions of Ulverscroft Ltd, has acquired audio rights for Isis Audio of Awais Khan’s IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS to be published in Spring 2021. Awais Khan commented, “I am… Read more »

Linda Stratmann is the author of fourteen non-fiction books mainly about true crime, but her work also includes Chloroform, the Quest for Oblivion, a history of the use and misuse of chloroform, and three biographies, notably her acclaimed The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde’s Nemesis. Her most recent non-fiction publication The Secret Poisoner chronicles the efforts… Read more »

Annette Crossland of A for Authors Agency Ltd is delighted to announce that Becky Hobson, Group Publishing Manager at Ulverscroft, has acquired audio rights for Isis Audio of A.A. Chaudhuri’s THE SCRIBE and THE ABDUCTION. These are the first two volumes in the Amazon bestselling Kramer/Carver thriller series. A.A. Chaudhuri commented “I am absolutely thrilled that THE SCRIBE… Read more »

Karen Sullivan, Publisher of Orenda Books, is delighted to announce the acquisition of World English Language rights, ex-USA/Can, including TV and audio, for Awais Khan’s atmospheric, searing No Honour, and a further, untitled novel, from Annette Crossland at A is for Authors, in a Frankfurt pre-empt. Karen says, ‘This beautifully written, utterly compulsive book has… Read more »