Doubleday has signed a "major" pre-emptive deal for world rights in two books from Anna Bailey with the first offers already in from France and Italy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-06 15:35:31 UTC ]
Penguin Random House US will donate up to 300,000 more children’s books to First Book, the literacy charity, on behalf of former US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-04 05:39:25 UTC ]
Bloomsbury will publish journalist Thomas McMullan’s debut novel The Last Good Man in November 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-03 21:48:31 UTC ]
Irish poet Elaine Feeney’s "dazzlingly inventive" debut novel As You Were will be published by Harvill Secker following an auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-02 15:33:42 UTC ]
We asked this year’s Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalists about their earliest love affairs with reading. Meet them all at the Finalist Reading and Fête on December 9 at The Center for Fiction. * Chia-Chia Lin, author of The Unpassing on The Elves and the Shoemaker, Fran Hunia and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-02 09:49:11 UTC ]
Serpent’s Tail has acquired an "irresistibly surreal" debut short story collection by Alice Ash. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-26 21:39:09 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton is publishing Veronica Roth's first novel for adults, Chosen Ones, after striking a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-20 08:51:10 UTC ]
Ian Williams, winner of this year’s $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his debut novel Reproduction, began his acceptance speech Monday night with an emotional tribute. “Margaret Atwood over there is the first book I bought with my own money at a bookstore in Brampton,” he told the audience.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-19 20:30:03 UTC ]
Welbeck Publishing Group has snapped up actor, comedian and memoirist Jessie Cave's debut novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 09:56:37 UTC ]
Ian Williams has won the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's richest literary award for fiction, for his novel Reproduction. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2019-11-19 03:04:37 UTC ]
HarperCollins has snapped up two women’s fiction books by debut author Hannah Sunderland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-18 02:55:49 UTC ]
Canongate will publish poet and performer Salena Godden’s debut novel, described by the publisher as an "electrifying genre- and form-defying firestarter". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-12 03:34:36 UTC ]
Myriad Editions has bagged a pair of "graphic medicine" books from Ian Williams and Zara Slattery, as the publisher launches its 2020 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-07 01:44:47 UTC ]
Head of Zeus imprint Aria Fiction has snared a "sweepingly romantic" debut by Olivia Lara in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-07 01:16:54 UTC ]
Shannon Pufahl’s “On Swift Horses” weaves an entanglement of attractions in postwar California. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-11-05 10:00:10 UTC ]
Rider has pre-empted rights to extreme athlete and "global breathwork guru" Wim Hof's first book on optimising physical and mental fitness. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-31 09:13:58 UTC ]
According to the Bookseller, Elena Ferrante’s first novel in five years will be published in English in June 2020 by Europa Editions. The Lying Life of Adults (great title? or greatest title?) is out in Italian this coming November 7, and the English version will, of course, appear in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-28 12:11:35 UTC ]
Daunt Books Publishing has acquired debut novel The Coming Bad Days by poet and academic Sarah Bernstein. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-24 06:01:24 UTC ]
A novel featuring a 110-year-old character has won the £20,000 Daily Mail and Penguin Random House First Novel Competition, now in its fourth year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-18 05:17:36 UTC ]
W&N has landed the "virtuoso" debut novel from poet Sam Riviere in a multi-publisher auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-18 05:10:37 UTC ]