Faber has acquired When Stars are Scattered, a "heart-wrenching" graphic novel set in a refugee camp, based on the true story of Omar Mohamed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-28 21:44:16 UTC ]
Inspired by a true story, Amity Gaige’s new novel is a gripping tale of a marriage on the brink Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-08 13:00:00 UTC ]
'Banned Book Club' by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada is the true story of Hyun Sook’s years as a South Korean college student under the brutal military regime of the early 1980s. In this 11-page excerpt a naive and apolitical Hyun Sook meets the fearless student members of a book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
Five faith-based titles are undergoing film adaptations this year, including the true story of friendship between an African American reverend and a KKK member in ‘Burden’ and a star-studded take on Ken Wilber’s memoir, ‘Grace and Grit.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
Mirror Books will publish "a major début by a fresh and exciting new voice in literature", inspired by a true story of a girl from a Romani ghetto. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-05 17:15:59 UTC ]
Mirror Books has acquired the true story of Lucy, the puppy farm Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and the campaign she inspired that led to Lucy’s Law and the nationwide ban on puppy farming. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-24 02:27:24 UTC ]
Bonnier Books UK has announced a novel inspired by the true story of Japan's 2011 tsunami for its new literary imprint, Manilla Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-03 06:38:51 UTC ]
Lion TV have acquired the option to develop BBC Middle East editor Raffi Berg's debut Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort as a television documentary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-29 01:06:38 UTC ]
Walker Books will publish Michael Rosen’s The Missing; The True Story of my Family in World War Two in January 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-26 17:56:29 UTC ]
John Blake Publishing has bagged the true story behind Birmingham’s Peaky Blinders by Professor Carl Chinn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-14 02:25:49 UTC ]
Reach plc (formerly Trinity Mirror) publishing imprint Mirror Books has acquired the true story of a man who discovers that his father is a drug-dealer: Breaking Dad by James Lubbock. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
He has charmed Elton John, angered Paul McCartney – and horrified Yoko Ono. What will he uncover about the ‘murky’ death of Jimi Hendrix? The great rock writer reveals the pain – and pleasure – of chasing starsSlowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton is my eighth rock biography since Shout!... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Century will this month publish a US conspiracy thriller - "rooted in real life, but not 'a true story'" - featuring "a controversial and wealthy tycoon who is running for President of the United States and a former porn star who is ready to go public with details of their affair". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
From a true story of character reformation to a passionate primer on opera to an engaging fictional tale about a 1916 election, here are the 10 September books the Monitor's book critics liked best. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebury Press has acquired a "shocking" true story of modern-day slavery in the UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Egmont Publishing has signed a new deal between Michael Morpurgo and illustrator Barroux based on the "epic", true story of Morpurgo’s uncles during World War Two. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Biteback has pulled a title claiming to tell the “true story” of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed's fatal crash in 1997 following "an abrupt change of mind" from Fayed's father, Mohammad Al Fayed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Biteback Publishing has signed a title claiming to tell the "true story" of Princess Diana's fatal crash in 1997. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week: the true story of the year-long quest to catch a Greenland shark, which can live up to 400 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Copyeditor Sebastian Boensch recommends Jakob Wassermann's 'My Marriage,' a novel with a thin fictional facade over the true story of his Wassermann's marriage, finished but not published before his early death in 1934. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]