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Caroline Dawnay of United Agents has sold three non-fiction titles to three different publishers.
Thames & Hudson managing director Jamie Camplin has bought world rights for Verdi and/or Wagner by Peter Conrad. The title will look at how a difference in styles contributed to a particular kind of nationalism. Dawnay said that the book would appeal "both to music lovers and will also appeal to students of early social history". Conrad, who has previously written critical works, autobiographies and a novel, is due to deliver the title at the end of 2010.
Dawnay has also sold British Commonwealth rights for a new book by Kate Colquhoun. David Shelley, publishing director at Sphere, acquired Mr Brigg's Hat, which is about the first murder to take place on a railway train. It will be published in summer 2011.
Finally, a new biography by Hermione Lee has been sold to Chatto & Windus. Publishing director Alison Samuel and editorial director Jenny Uglow bought British Commonwealth rights to Penelope Fitzgerald: A Quiet Life.
Novelist and poet Fitzgerald won the 1979 Booker Prize for her novel Offshore.