'Emotive' debut based on real-life story to Urbane

Urbane Publications has signed The Huntingfield Paintress, the debut novel by writer Pamela Holmes. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Headline has landed debut author Bolu Babalola’s retelling of love stories from mythology and history, celebrating "wildly beautiful and astonishingly diverse tales of romance and desire". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-03 16:39:47 UTC ]
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Ebury snaps up real story of The Librarian of Auschwitz

Ebury will publish the memoir of Holocaust survivor and concentration camp librarian Dita Kraus, who inspired the novel The Librarian of Auschwitz (Ebury). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-26 06:34:21 UTC ]
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Trapeze clinches 'emotionally charged' love story from suspense writer Adams

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[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-13 19:27:46 UTC ]
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Life beyond ‘Star Trek’: Kate Mulgrew’s poignant, sometimes shocking family story

In her memoir “How to Forget,” the actress shows another side of her steely TV persona. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-06-07 12:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2019: Celebrating Real-Life and Fictional Sisterhood

Though Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush have lived their entire lives in the spotlight, they first became literary luminaries in 2017, with the publication of their bestselling joint memoir, 'Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chelsea Manning signs book deal for memoir that will tell her life story

Activist and former soldier Chelsea Manning will tell her life story in a memoir set for release next year. Manning, who spent seven years in prison for leaking thousands of documents related to the Iraq war to the website WikiLeaks, is writing the book for publisher Farrar, Straus and... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-14 18:35:00 UTC ]
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Doctor, teacher, bestseller: why real-life memoirs are such a hit

A Great Ormond Street nurse has sold 100,000 books in a few weeks by joining a growing trend of writers to recount heartfelt first-person accounts of their own livesChristie Watson never imagined writing a bestselling memoir about her job as a nurse, much less about her life. “I didn’t think... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tinder Press snaps up Naomi Ishiguro's debut short story collection

Tinder Press has snapped up the "exuberantly original" debut short story collection from Naomi Ishiguro. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Greenhill Books Commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the Real-Life ‘Great Escape’

Military history publisher Michael Leventhal—whose father founded the London Book Fair—plans four titles to celebrate events portrayed in an iconic WWII film. The post Greenhill Books Commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the Real-Life ‘Great Escape’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New ‘German Stories’ Stand Debuts at Taipei International Book Exhibition

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mirror Books scoops real-life Breaking Bad

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 at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Myriad acquires Chiew's debut short story collection

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[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chadwick's debut short story collection to Splice

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[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HQ scoops film-maker's 'emotional' debut

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[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Doubleday bags 'heart-wrenching' debut Shelf Life in 'speedy' pre-empt

Doubleday has pre-empted a debut novel from Tuscan writer and translator Livia Franchini, hailed "an exquisite, heart-wrenching story of a woman rebuilding herself on her own terms". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PEN America Announces Refocused Short Story Debut Award, the Bingham Prize

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador pre-empts Curtis Brown student Ladner's 'urban' debut

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[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2018: How Real Life Inspires Writers

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Macmillan Children's Books buys debut World War Two story

Macmillan Children’s Books has bought a middle-grade book about a mouse whose home is bombed in World War Two by debut writer Anna Fargher. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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