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Picador signs Boochani memoir written on WhatsApp in detention centre

Picador has signed an “extraordinary” memoir in a four-way auction from Iranian Kurdish refugee Behrouz Boochani, which he secretly wrote on WhatsApp while being held in a detention centre. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion buys children’s book about Rohingya refugees

Orion Children’s Books has acquired the UK and Commonweath rights to The Bone Sparrow, a book about Rohingya refugees in Australia, by Zana Fraillon. The story is told through the eyes of Subhi, a young refugee who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre after his mother fled her... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'