Harvill Secker senior editor Ellie Steel has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights at auction for Diary of a Void by debut Japanese author Emi Yagi. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-24 04:35:05 UTC ]
Scholastic UK has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Kacen Callender's Hurricane Child, with publication slated for June 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-16 07:44:38 UTC ]
Methuen Publishing has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to Robert McKee's Character. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-23 06:25:26 UTC ]
HarperCollins Publishers has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, for a currently untitled book about Donald Trump by New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-02 16:56:42 UTC ]
Callum Kenny, editor for Sphere fiction, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, for two new novels from Justin Myers. Rights were acquired from Becky Thomas at Johnson & Alcock. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-23 13:07:57 UTC ]
Victoria Oundjian, commissioning editor at Orion Fiction, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to a romantic debut, Uncoupling by Lorraine Brown. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-29 13:28:09 UTC ]
Coronet has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Adult Virgins Anonymous, a novel about two 20-something virgins who meet at a support group, by YA writer Nicole Burstein, writing under the pseudonym Amber Crewe. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-29 09:42:46 UTC ]
Kate Hewson, editorial director at John Murray imprint Two Roads, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in comedian Laura Lexx’s imaginary diary of life about being married to Liverpool FC manager Jürgen Klopp, Klopp Actually. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-11 01:20:18 UTC ]
Faber editorial director Laura Hassan has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Miss Dior, the “moving and powerful” story of Catherine Dior, from The Wylie Agency’s Sarah Chalfant. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder editorial director Kimberley Atkins has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, including Canada, from agent Madeleine Milburn to two more adult novels from Holly Bourne. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic UK has acquired UK and Irish rights to I Need a New Bum, written by Dawn McMillan and illustrated by Ross Kinnaird. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Braybrooke and Marika Webb-Pullman at Scribe have acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to A Girl’s Guide to Personal Hygiene by Tallulah Pomeroy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Goldsmiths Prize-winning Solar Bones by Mike McCormack. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Trapeze has acquired "heartbreaking yet life-affirming" debut We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt in a five-way auction. Sam Eades, senior commissioning editor at Trapeze, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to the debut, which was discovered on the slush pile by Juliet Mushens at UTA, for a figure... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Juliet Mabey at Oneworld has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in Girls & Sex by Peggy Orenstein, via Cathryn Summerhayes at WME on behalf of Suzanne Gluck. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gollancz has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to a literary thriller with an anti-apocalyptic streak, The Fireman, in a new direction for horror author Joe Hill. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, will publish And the Weak Suffer What They Must? in April 2016. It is described as “a devastating and comprehensive critique of the economics and politics of austerity”. Will Hammond, editorial director at The Bodley Head, acquired UK... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bodley Head is to publish a “sweeping memoir” by artist and political activist Ai Weiwei. As yet untitled, the book will be simultaneously published in the UK and in the US by Crown in spring 2017. Stuart Williams, publishing director at The Bodley Head, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate has acquired a mathematical colouring book. Katy Follain, publishing director of non-fiction, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in Snowflake, Seashell, Star by Alex Bellos from Rebecca Carter at Janklow & Nesbit. Bellos has “created a unique and inspiring colouring book using... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate will publish a new cookbook from Birmingham-born chef April Bloomfield featuring recipes using vegetables, titled A Girl and Her Greens. Jenny Lord, senior editor at Canongate, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Cullen Stanley at Janklow and Nesbit. Bloomfield is the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]