Notable deals this week include a major acquisition for MIT Press, a first-person tale of survival on the high seas, and a YA novel that HarperTeen won at auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
Raymond AntrobusWho/ What inspired you to start writing? I never started writing poetry with the intention of writing books until publishers approached me. I was happy to write poems and travel and read the poems for audiences. I live poem by poem. The idea of a book of poems doesn’t really... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-12-05 12:09:15 UTC ]
Bodley Head will publish Pulitzer Prize-winner Ian Urbina’s exposé of the criminal world of the high seas in October. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut non-fiction book from Irish scientist Olive Heffernan about the ‘Blue Gold Rush’, The New Pirates of the High Seas, has sparked a bidding war on both sides of the Atlantic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) has acquired a three-book fantasy set on the high seas by debut author Bex Hogan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Master and Commander author’s early nautical stories – Noughts and Crosses, Two’s Company and No Pirates Nowadays – return to print after 80 yearsThree virtually unknown short stories by Patrick O’Brian of derring-do on the high seas, featuring everything from shark fishing on the Great Barrier... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]