Sandstone Press has acquired The Tyranny of Lost Things, the debut novel from The Vagenda blog founder Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett which it says will "resonate with the millenial generation". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperFiction has bought a “brilliant, dark debut novel” which explores the many identities women “juggle” throughout life from former agent Hannah Begbie, inspired by her son’s cystic fibrosis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Regina Porter’s 'The Travelers,' which rumor has it sold for roughly half a million dollars in the U.S. alone, is now racking up foreign sales, with six-figure deals having just closed in the U.K. and Germany. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novel by 70-year-old Anne Youngson has been pre-empted by Transworld and is set to become the publisher's lead fiction title for summer 2018. Transworld editorial director Jane Lawson pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights including Canada to Meet Me At The Museum, described as "the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fleet has acquired Adelle Stripe's debut novel, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, first published in July by Hull-based indie Wrecking Ball Press and shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Murray is publishing Jessie Greengrass’s first novel, Sight, in February 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Non-fiction independent publisher Elliott & Thompson is to make its first foray into crime fiction with Killer Intent, the first in a new thriller series by debut author Tony Kent. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins imprint The Borough Press is launching the inaugural Cheltenham First Novel Competition in association with Cheltenham Festivals and LBA Literary Agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
How years, hundreds of queries, and an abandoned manuscript led to the publication of Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's outstanding debut novel, 'A Kind of Freedom.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Perhaps it was because today is the last hurrah before A-listers head off to the beach and the mountains to escape summer's dog days. Whatever the reason, Michael's was jumping today. I was joined by CNN's Alisyn Camerota, whose new book Amanda Wakes Up was released July 25. I read it in three... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2017-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fourth Estate has snapped up a debut "coming-of-age" novel set in Ghana and Brixton at auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Parker called Stephanie Powell Watts’ debut novel 'No One Is Coming to Save Us' “deeply compelling and richly satisfying," and described it as a “brilliant examination of the American dream among African-Americans in a struggling community in the contemporary South.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus has bought graphologist and psychotherapist Emma Bache’s first book, Reading Between the Lines, an "enlightening and entertaining" guide to what our handwriting says about us. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Century is publishing the debut of Rich McCor, aka Instagram star Paperboyo, called Around the World in Cut-Outs. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sphere has acquired the first book by cyclist blogger Jools Walker, known online as Lady Velo. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The title of the first novel in Philip Pullman's new series The Book of Dust, a companion series to his famed His Dark Materials trilogy, has been revealed as La Belle Sauvage. The book, set for publication this autumn, will feature a new hero, 11-year-old Malcolm Polstead, and his daemon... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Octopus imprint Cassell Illustrated has acquired in a "hotly contested" auction the first book from The Festival of the Spoken Nerd, a show that celebrates science, comedy and "unashamed geekiness" with live experiments and audience participation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Minette Walters has moved to Atlantic Books for her first full novel in more than a decade set in Black Death-infested medieval England. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Francis Spufford's much-lauded Golden Hill (Faber) has gained yet another prize nod, this time on the six-strong shortlist for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2017 (£2,500). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Heat-Moon, author of the bestselling 1982 travel memoir 'Blue Highways,' struck a deal with small New York press Three Rooms to publish his first novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]