Craig Literary, founded by Jessica Craig in 2016, is a full-service literary agency representing diverse writers of fiction, non-fiction, and children's books. The agency grows out of Jessica Craig's 20+ years of experience as a top foreign rights agent and on her record as an effective international champion of high quality authors, from established names to outstanding debuts, and across genres in fiction and non-fiction.
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A key source for international publishers looking for new titles from Japan, we facilitate collaborations with Japanese authors, illustrators and publishers. We also assist publishers who are licensing Japanese content with translation, adaptation and localization to make publishing Japanese books in translation as easy as possible. In Japan, the crane is a symbol of good fortune, happiness and longevity. Origami folded paper cranes are often given as an expression of good wishes and peace. At Paper Crane, we hope that all the titles we present or create – our “good wishes” from Japan – will bring enjoyment to readers of all ages, wherever they are in the world.
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Magician of the North is the first full-scale biography of the extraordinary man, William George Armstrong. He was a visionary inventor, engineer and businessman who bestrode the 19th-centuryworld like a colossus, bring global renown to his great Elswick works on the Tyne, while adding lustre to Britain’s imperial might. He created Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity and planted in its grounds seven million trees. This book is much more that just the life of one man. It is the story of Britain at the height of the empire, its industrial success and scientific and technological achievements. Shortlisted for the Portico Prize and the H.W. Fisher Best First Biography prize.
As far back as 1873, experiments were carried out to see whether the electric trolley system applied to omnibuses could be adapted to ploughing and tilling fields. In 1913, 1,600 trolley/cable ploughs were in use across German farmlands. The arrival of the gasoline tractor relegated the use of electricity to electroculture, short haul farm machinery and lawn mowers. But it is only with the commercial availability of the lithium-ion battery during the last decade, that electrically powered drones and more recently tractors and earth movers are being seen as the way ahead. In this, the sixth in his seminal electric transport history series, Kevin Desmond portrays the life and work of the innovative engineers who perfected these e-tractors and agricultural drones.
