L'Amour never published his first novel, 'No Traveller Returns,' which draws upon on his early life at port and at sea. Now the novel is being released for the first time with the help of his son, Beau L'Amour, as part of a series of 'Lost Treasures.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Louise Walters has signed a “heart-breaking” children’s novel, The Naseby Horses, from debut author Dominic Brownlow, a year after founding her own publishing company. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Usborne has acquired an "explosive" high-school thriller by debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé that examines institutionalised racism. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The debut novel from last year’s Costa Short Story Award winner Luan Goldie will be published by HQ. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fiona Mozley has won the Polari First Book Prize 2018 for her Man Booker-shortlisted debut, Elmet (John Murray). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) has acquired a three-book fantasy set on the high seas by debut author Bex Hogan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Piccadilly Press, part of Bonnier Zaffre, has acquired a humorous young fiction series by debut author Simon Mockler. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Georgia Fancett from Bath has picked up a £20,000 publishing contract with Century for her "hard-hitting" police procedural The Fifth Girl. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thomas Harris, author of The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, is returning after more than a decade with a new novel, to be published by Cornerstone imprint William Heinemann next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK rights in the first book by Netflix c.e.o. and co-founder Reed Hastings have gone to Ebury for a high six-figure advance following a multi-publisher auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stripes Publishing, an imprint of the Little Tiger Group, has bought a novel by debut author Gabriel Dylan for its Red Eye horror list. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sphere is publishing the first book of London rescue cat Curious Zelda, whose startled look has attracted a following of more than 80,000 on Twitter. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Usborne has acquired The Garden of Found and Lost, a debut middle-grade novel based on the discovery of a 100-year-old gardener’s notebook at the National Trust’s Ickworth house in Suffolk. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Authors has launched a new prize for debut novelists over the age of 60: The Paul Torday Memorial Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has won "a highly competitive" auction to publish stand-up comedian and "Britain’s Got Talent" winner Lee Ridley, aka Lost Voice Guy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lillian Li, author of 'Number One Chinese Restaurant' and a bookseller at Ann Arbor's Literati bookstore, on indie bookstores, authors, and how important they are for each other. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
'What We Were Promised' depicts post-Mao China in a deft debut novel set in Shanghai Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
As Feminist Book Fortnight draws to a close, we spoke to debut author Sophie Mackintosh, whose devastating dystopian novel The Water Cure (Hamish Hamilton) has drawn comparisons to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gail Honeyman has won the 2018 Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award for her debut Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (HarperCollins). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lara Prescott’s We Were Never Here recounts how the CIA used Boris Pasternak’s novel as a propaganda tool during the cold warLast month, Lara Prescott was preparing to graduate from her three-year creative writing fellowship at the University of Texas. Two weeks later, she is sitting on book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]