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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
This week, we have views from the corporate headquarters of Kinokuniya, showing off its 30th world bookstore location, just opened in May as the company's first store in Cambodia. The post Friday Photos: Japan’s Kinokuniya Company Opens Its First Bookstore in Cambodia appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
An American debut author has secured a £1.5m advance for her "sensational" historical novel, with Hutchinson winning the UK rights after a 12-publisher auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novel about the 1957 publication of 'Dr. Zhivago,' called 'We Were Never Here,' has been acquired by Knopf's Jordan Pavlin after a 14-bidder auction. Pavlin called the buzzed-about title, by a recent grad of the MFA program at the University of Texas at Austin, a "literary page-turner." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Trapeze is publishing a "taboo-busting" book from married YouTubers Rose Ellen Dix and Rosie Spaughton. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut author flyposted Penguin Random House's offices in London's Vauxhall as part of a guerrilla marketing stunt to promote his new book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]