Fig Tree has scooped the "powerful and beautifully humane" debut novel by Mo Siewcharran Prize-winner Santanu Bhattacharya. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-05 14:00:25 UTC ]
Penguin Random House has dominated the Costa Book Awards 2021 category winners, with two Viking authors among the victors—Caleb Azumah Nelson and John Preston—along with Fig Tree's Claire Fuller and Manjeet Mann, with only Bloodaxe Books' Hannah Lowe preventing a clean sweep. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-04 12:23:06 UTC ]
Lit Lists Literary translation’s 2020 story is one of abundance and adaptation. Like most books published this year, dozens of new translations were published during a global pandemic. Events quickly moved from bookstores to Zoom. Writers and... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-12-14 20:55:17 UTC ]
Helen Garnons-Williams is leaving HarperCollins to join Penguin General as publishing director for Fig Tree. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-22 14:02:50 UTC ]
Penguin General imprint Fig Tree has bought a food memoir by actor and author Stanley Tucci in a 24-hour pre-empt. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-17 13:32:25 UTC ]
Fig Tree will publish journalist and author Dolly Alderton’s debut novel, Ghosts, about a food writer with a dedicated online following whose personal life is falling apart. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 16:29:40 UTC ]
Rachel Roddy, author of Four Quarters and Two Kitchens (Headline), has moved to Fig Tree to publish a new pasta book, The A-Z of Pasta. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
India Knight is publishing an homage to her favourite novel, The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, with Fig Tree next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fig Tree has snapped up UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to literary début Central by Anbara Salam after a three-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Viv Groskop's "literary self-help memoir" inspired by the Russian classics has been acquired at auction by Penguin General imprint Fig Tree. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A collection of essays from Zadie Smith, a novel critiquing the concept of romantic love by Alain de Botton and Marina Lewycka’s first book in four years are among the highlights of Penguin General’s spring 2016 list. Authors and staff from Penguin General – which comprises of imprints Penguin,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Deals revealed during the last two days of London Book Fair 2015, which concluded yesterday (16th), include an "intense auction" for a thriller by Melanie Raabe, which went to Mantle, a "stunning psychological suspense novel" by Margaret McQuaile which went to Quercus, and a debut by Goodreads... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a major deal ahead of London Book Fair, Fig Tree has won a five-way publisher auction for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Mon, 05/09/2011 - 11:19 Fig Tree publishing director Juliet Annan has bought world rights in a new book by playwright and novelist Nell Leyshon. The deal was done at auction through Anna Webber at United Agents. The Colour of Milk is told in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Wed, 10/08/2011 - 10:44 Juliet Annan at Fig Tree has won a "hotly contested" auction involving seven bidders to buy cookery manual Food DIY by Tim Hayward. Annan acquired world rights to the book, and a second volume, from Tim Bates at Pollinger Ltd... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Amazon.co.uk has selected books published by Myriad Editions, Fig Tree, Atlantic Books and Simon & Schuster as its four Rising Stars for this quarter. Snowdrops by A D Miller (Atlantic Books) is currently the featured book, with a Q&A with Miller on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]