HarperVoyager has snared YA writer Juno Dawson's first three adult novels, a trilogy set around a government agency for witches, at auction in a six-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-27 18:39:44 UTC ]
Authors who write about marginalised communities are facing abuse, boycotts and even death threats. What is cancel culture doing to young adult fiction?Earlier this month, the author and screenwriter Gareth Roberts announced that his story was being removed from a forthcoming Doctor Who... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-06-15 08:00:15 UTC ]
Carnegie Medal-nominated YA author Laura Jarratt is swapping children’s books for adults, and has struck a deal with Trapeze. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children’s Books has acquired three books in a young fiction series by Lindsey Kelk, an author of adult novels and former children’s book editor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-28 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 ]
Pan Macmillan's digital imprint Bello is to publish eight of Richmal Crompton's "forgotten" adult novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton editor Anne Perry has snapped up two fantasy/crime novels, described as "a cross between Ben Aaronovitch and Lauren Beukes". Perry acquired UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights to Paul Crilley’s Poison City and its sequel, Neon City, from Sandra Sawicka at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reading charity is donating around 2,000 books to foodbanks in London and the Midlands this Christmas. The charity is teaming up with The Trussell Trust foodbank network to distribute books to foodbanks in Wandsworth, West Norwood, Manchester, Coventry and Birmingham. Each foodbank will receive... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarra Manning is to move from Transworld to Little, Brown’s Sphere for her next two adult novels. Manning’s move brings her adult publishing into the same house as her most recent YA publishing – her last two YA novels The Worst Girlfriend in the World and Adorkable were published by Atom,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has signed a six-figure deal for two novels by TV presenter Dawn O'Porter. Commercial women's fiction director Kimberley Young signed a deal for world rights in all languages with Adrian Sington at Sington & Co Ltd. The books will be O'Porter's first adult novels. She has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion has acquired three further adult novels by thriller writer Harlan Coben, with the first of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]