Netflix has announced a film centered on the ongoing stock saga starring Noah Centineo after MGM acquired rights to a book proposal on the same subjectThe GameStop content race is on, even as the Reddit-fueled market rebellion against billionaire hedge funds continues to play out in real... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-02-01 19:04:34 UTC ]
Walker Books Group imprint Candlewick Press has acquired rights to a new children’s picture book by Caldecott medallist Jon Klassen. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-12 11:17:10 UTC ]
Vintage has acquired rights to writer and AIDs historian Sarah Schulman’s People in Trouble, almost 30 years after it was first published, featuring a fictionalised version of Donald Trump. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Icon Books has acquired rights to art historian Catherine McCormack’s book, Women in the Picture, a “feminist, 21st-century visual culture manifesto”, for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate c.e.o. Jamie Byng has acquired rights to Priya Basil’s "wise and engrossing" Be My Guest, slated for publication in November 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has acquired rights in a "significant" pre-empt to an untitled memoir by first-time author Julie Yip-Williams, "a powerful book about living". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Octopus imprint Hamlyn has acquired rights to publish a second edition of Larousse Wine by David Cobbold and Sebastian Durand-Viel, co-founders of the Paris Academy of Wine. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown has acquired rights to the Mirabelle Bevan series backlist by Edinburgh-based author Sara Sheridan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks director to join forces with journalist Kristine McKenna for an autobiographical study of his life and workThe director David Lynch has teamed up with the journalist Kristine McKenna to hit back at the “bullshit” surrounding his life and work in a book due to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Century and Arrow has acquired rights to two more novels by Emma Kavanagh. Jenny Geras, Arrow publishing director, bought UK and Commonwealth rights, including the EU and Canada, from Camilla Wray at the Darley Anderson Literary, TV and Film Agency. Kavanagh’s debut novel, Falling, was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two Roads has acquired rights to memoir of addiction and recovery by Salon.com’s Sarah Hepola. Publisher Lisa Highton bought UK rights to Blackout from Rachel Clements at Abner Stein. The book is described as “funny and moving”, and tells the story of how Hepola, “a single woman with a rising... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has acquired rights to former Avon author Luca Veste’s new crime novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Freight Books has acquired rights to a debut novel by Scottish food writer Sue Lawrence. Adrian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fourth Estate has acquired rights in the book of essays by writer/director/actress Lena Dunham... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House imprint William Heinemann has acquired rights in a unique edition of Ernest... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harvill Secker has acquired rights to a thriller imagining a world where the Berlin Wall had... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
In France, bestselling author Fred Vargas landed at #1 with a new Commissaire Adamsberg mystery, The Furious Army. Penguin will release a paperback edition of an earlier Adamsberg novel, An Uncertain Plan, in the U.S. in October, but has not yet acquired rights to the newest title. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Michael Joseph has acquired rights in "X Factor" finalist and "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" queen Stacey Solomon's autobiography. Katy Follain, Michael Joseph non-fiction publisher bought British Commonwealth including Canada, serial, audio and ebook... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]