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RECENT WORLD RIGHTS DEALS
RECENT WORLD RIGHTS SALES
In addition to the titles described in previous pages, the Science Factory has sold world rights in the following recent titles. For information about the availability of translation rights, please contact the publishers directly.
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CAN FISH COUNT? What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds by Brian Butterworth (Quercus/Basic Books, 2022)
THE IDEA OF THE BRAIN: A History by Matthew Cobb (Profile, 21 April, 2020) – US rights sold on to Basic Books
LIFE, EDITED: Genetic Engineering, Utopia and Technofear by Matthew Cobb (Profile, 2024) – US rights sold on to Basic Books
NUMBERS IN MINUTES by Julia Collins (Quercus, 7 November 2019)
UNDERSTANDING NUMBERS: Simplify Life’s Mathematics, Decode the World Around You by Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas (White Lion Publishing/Quarto, 11 April 2019)
THE DANCE OF LIFE: Symmetry, Cells and How We Become Human by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and Roger Highfield (W. H. Allen/Ebury, 27 February 2020) –US rights sold on to Basic Books
COLDER: How We Use Extreme Cold to Save Lives, Change Medicine and Alter Our Experience of Space and Time by Philip Jaekl (Public Affairs, 2021)
THE RULES OF CONTAGION: How Outbreaks Happen – From Ideas to Infectious Diseases by Adam Kucharski (Profile, 12 February 2020) – US rights sold on to Basic Books
THE GENESIS QUEST: The Geniuses and Madmen Who Tried to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth by Michael Marshall (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 20 August 2020) – US rights sold on to University of Chicago Press
LIQUID: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik (Viking UK, 6 September 2018) – US rights sold on to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
IT’S A GAS by Mark Miodownik (Viking UK, 2020) – US rights sold on to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
IFL SCIENCE 117: Things You Should F*#king Know About Your World by Paul Parsons (Running Press/Hachette, 2019)
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES: The Birth of a Modern Hero by P. D. Smith (Bloomsbury, 2021)
EINSTEIN’S WAR: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World by Matthew Stanley (Viking UK, 23 May 2019) – US rights sold on to Dutton/Penguin US –represented by Jeff Shreve
DO DICE PLAY GOD? The Mathematics of Uncertainty by Ian Stewart (Profile, 6 June 2019) –US rights sold on to Basic Books
THE USES OF MATHEMATICS by Ian Stewart (Profile, 2020) –US rights sold on to Basic Books
LIVING IN DATA by Jer Thorp (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020)
MOVE: The New Science of Body Movement and How it Can Set Your Mind Free by Caroline Williams (Profile, 2021) – US rights sold on to Hanover Square Press
THE POWER OF RITUAL: How Rituals Soothe, Excite, Divide and Unite Us by Dimitris Xygalatas (Profile, 2020)
