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New Picador edition to mark 25th anniversary of Bridget Jones's Diary

Picador will release Bridget Jones's Diary (And Other Writing) in February 2021, a new edition of the novel with more than 100 pages of extra material from author Helen Fielding. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 05:25:26 UTC ]
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Picador wins four-way auction for 10 books from Kincaid

Picador has won a four-way auction for 10 books from Jamaica Kincaid, hailed by the publisher as “one of our greatest living writers”. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-27 02:18:31 UTC ]
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Picador scoops Patrick Radden Keefe's Sackler history

Picador has scooped a history of the Sackler dynasty from Say Nothing (William Collins) author Patrick Radden Keefe. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-16 11:50:12 UTC ]
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Picador bags Gillett's 'shocking' dance music history

Picador has bagged a “shocking, enlightening and engaging” social and political history of dance music in the UK by journalist and film-maker Ed Gillett. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-09 10:32:37 UTC ]
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Picador wins Polzin's 'irresistible' Brood in six-way auction

Picador has won a six-publisher auction for Jackie Polzin's “irresistible” debut Brood, a novel about grief, motherhood and chickens. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-19 19:47:31 UTC ]
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Picador serves up Auslander's Mother for Dinner

Picador has snapped up Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander, billed as the “funniest novel of the 2020s” and looking at identity, inheritance and cannibalism. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-10 18:52:42 UTC ]
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Picador picks up new novel from Ridgway

Picador has picked up the first novel in eight years from award-winning Irish author Keith Ridgway. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-24 11:52:26 UTC ]
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Picador signs Antrobus collection at auction

Picador has snapped up a new collection of poetry from 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize winner Raymond Antrobus in a multi-publisher auction. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-22 16:59:05 UTC ]
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My Job in Five: Kishani Widyaratna

Picador Books' commissioning editor Kishani Widyaratna steps up to the plate for My Job in Five.    Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-21 23:32:24 UTC ]
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Picador wins six-way auction for Boakye's look at school racism

Picador has triumphed in a six-way auction for I Heard What You Said by Jeffrey Boakye, a “smart and witty” look at racism in British schools. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-09 18:10:33 UTC ]
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Picador pre-empts book on 'next big climate crisis'

Picador has pre-empted an investigation into water stress, billed as "the next big climate crisis", by environmental journalist Tim Smedley. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 18:18:39 UTC ]
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Picador scoops Great Flu novel by Donoghue

Picador has scooped the “intoxicating” new novel from Room writer Emma Donoghue, telling the story of nurses and doctors working on the medical front line of 1918's great flu epidemic. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-27 04:39:36 UTC ]
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Braybrooke and Slight promoted at Scribe UK

Two promotions are to take effect at Scribe UK as editor-at-large Philip Gwyn Jones steps down next month to take up the role of Picador publisher. Sarah Braybrooke is set to become publisher and managing director, while Molly Slight will be editorial director. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-09 05:27:30 UTC ]
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Picador bags Hye-jin’s Korean bestseller

Picador has triumphed in a multi-publisher auction for Kim Hye-jin’s Korean bestseller Concerning My Daughter. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 12:50:05 UTC ]
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Philip Gwyn Jones appointed Picador publisher after Baggaley departure

Pan Mac has appointed Philip Gwyn Jones as Picador’s new publisher following Paul Baggaley’s move to Bloomsbury. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-26 04:34:01 UTC ]
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Picador to publish memoir from John Connell

Picador is publishing The Running Book: A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History by Irish Book Award-winner John Connell. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-16 17:12:56 UTC ]
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Widyaratna and Caless raise £4k in hours for food banks in trade crowdfunder

Picador commissioning editor Kishani Widyaratna (pictured) and Influx Press co-founder Kit Caless have launched a fundraiser for people in the publishing industry to donate money to the Trussell Trust with nearly £4,000 raised within five hours. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-16 19:29:32 UTC ]
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Clive James dies at 80; a last poetry book will come next year

Picador has announced "with great sadness" news of the death of Clive James, who passed away peacefully at home on Sunday 24th November after a long illness, aged 80. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-27 02:27:11 UTC ]
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British Council unveils new International Publishing Fellowship Programme

Staff from Penguin Random House, Kogan Page and Picador are among the professionals taking part in the British Council's International Publishing Fellowship Programme. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-12 13:29:38 UTC ]
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Baggaley explains surprise move to Bloomsbury

In a coup for Bloomsbury, Paul Baggaley is to leave Pan Macmillan after 11 years as Picador publisher to take up the post of Bloomsbury editor-in-chief for adult consumer publishing. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 10:00:10 UTC ]
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