Canongate has signed a six-figurre deal for London-based author Tahmima Anam's fourth novel Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-10 17:15:51 UTC ]
Doubleday has snapped up Hallie Rubenhold's new book, Bad Women, which tells the story of the 1910 murder of Belle Elmore, by her husband Dr Crippen, and the extraordinary women caught up in these events. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-23 20:24:32 UTC ]
Kirty Topiwala, Hodder’s new head of non-fiction, has pre-empted a "revolutionary" book by Oxford psychologist Elaine Fox in a six-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 16:55:47 UTC ]
Hutchinson has signed a six-figure deal with author Nancy Tucker for her debut novel, The First Day of Spring, following an auction, with rights sold in the US, Brazil and France. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-15 10:14:07 UTC ]
Hachette Children's Group has pre-empted a middle-grade series by J M Joseph in a six-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-11 04:19:11 UTC ]
Transworld has pre-empted The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman by debut author Julietta Henderson in a "significant" six-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-08 21:23:29 UTC ]
Princeton University Press has struck a six-figure deal with Harvard economist Claudia Goldin for her "urgent" book on gender disparity. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-12 13:03:07 UTC ]
Walker Books has triumphed in an eight-way auction to publish the follow up to Malamander by Thomas Taylor in a six-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-12 07:54:33 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has won a 15-publisher bidding war for a book on grief by podcaster Cariad Lloyd, in “one of the fiercest auctions” managed by agent Nelle Andrew of PFD, for a "significant" six-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-04 20:54:25 UTC ]
Adam Gnuse’s “haunting” gothic debut, Girl in the Walls, has gone to 4th Estate in a six-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-23 16:12:02 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has scooped Sir Trevor McDonald’s autobiography for a “significant” six-figure sum, taking readers through pivotal moments in history alongside personal reflections and stories. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-04 18:38:21 UTC ]
Walker Books has acquired two novels by middle-grade author Jennifer Bell in a six-figure, pre-emptive deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-30 16:26:58 UTC ]
Picador has scooped the "heart-stopping" new novel from Sarah Moss in a six-figure deal following a heated nine-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-08 09:45:13 UTC ]
Chinese American writer Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is causing waves across the Atlantic with an auction and six-figure deal for two books with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, as buzz around a UK deal begins. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-24 01:13:28 UTC ]
Michael Joseph has bought two books from thriller writer Claire Douglas in a six-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Big deals signed for study of a 19th-century family of killers, Hell’s Half-Acre, and Murder Isn’t Easy, a mortician’s take on Agatha Christie’s forensics The spectre of true crime was stalking the aisles at this year’s London book fair, with publishers snapping up investigations into past evils... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Puffin, a division of Penguin Random House (PRH) Children’s, has acquired the debut fiction trilogy by illustrator Jamie Littler in a six-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has acquired Jane Sanderson's latest novel, a "nostalgic and romantic" story called Mix Tape pitched as perfect for fans of David Nicholls and Laura Barnett, in a six-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amy Einhorn bets big on a Reese Witherspoon book club author, Elizabeth Strout returns to Olive Kitteridge, an S&S editor strikes a six-figure deal at HarperCollins, and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cory Doctorow closes a six-figure deal with Tor; William Morrow nabs a debut novel by an assistant at Curtis, Brown UK; and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]