'Original' take on psychological thriller to Del Rey

Ebury imprint Del Rey has acquired The One, an "original and modern take on a psychological thriller" by John Marrs. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nearly there: eleven and counting for Swedish thriller

A Swedish thriller with "relentless twists and turns" portraying "every parent’s nightmare" has been sold into 11 territories since it went on submission a week ago, with offers "streaming in" from other markets. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Debut thriller writer Ingrid Alexander to Avon

Avon Books has bought a psychological thriller, described as mixture of S. J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep and cult film "Single White Female", by debut Australian author Ingrid Alexandra. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vallance signs first adult thriller with Sphere

Sphere has signed Jessica Vallance's first adult fiction novel ahead of London Book Fair, an "addictive" psychological thriller. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HQ's post-natal thriller optioned for film

Thriller debut Little Darlings by Melanie Golding has been optioned by Free Range Films, months after it was snapped up by HQ in a six-figure pre-empt. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oneworld strikes 'substantial' six-figure deal for more Dean thrillers

Oneworld's literary crime imprint Point Blank has acquired three more titles in Will Dean's Tuva Moodyson series for six-figures in a "substantial" deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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4th Estate swoops in on Korean thriller The Plotters

4th Estate has won a five-way auction for a literary crime thriller The Plotters by South Korean writer Un-su Kim. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Morrow splashes six figures on blizzard thriller ahead of LBF

William Morrow has bought North American rights to Taylor Adams’ thriller No Exit in a mid-six figure deal struck ahead of London Book Fair. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Daring' thriller to Orenda in two-book deal

Orenda Books has signed Will Carver’s "dark and daring" thriller Good Samaritans in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hot Key buys debut YA thriller set in Norway

Hot Key Books, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre, has acquired world rights, including translation, film and merchandising, for a YA ghost story set in the remote snows of contemporary Norway. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber signs book on psychology of communication

Faber & Faber has signed a popular science book on the psychology of communication by the author Ian Leslie.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If He Wakes thriller debut to Canelo

Canelo has signed a psychological suspense novel about two women who learn "harrowing truths" about their partners. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poet Savannah Brown pens YA thriller

Penguin Random House Children’s has acquired a YA thriller from debut writer and poet Savannah Brown. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children's Books in China 2018: A Wide-Ranging Selection of Original Works from China

With nearly 100 Chinese publishers and at least half that many illustrators attending the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in March, a big contingent will be representing the land of 1.38 billion people. Most of the publications they are bringing to the fair focus on common themes and age-old plots... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The new Scandi noir: the Korean writers reinventing the thriller

The country has emerged as a surprising literary force as a novel by the ‘Korean Henning Mankell’ bags a six-figure deal and sparks a global bidding warLast December, Korean novelist Un-su Kim set out on an eight-month deep-sea fishing trip as part of research for his next book. Unreachable by... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two more Ryan Howard thrillers to Corvus

Atlantic Books imprint Corvus has signed a deal for two new novels by Catherine Ryan Howard, including a "creepy, claustrophobic" thriller. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Raven signs 'tense thriller' for six figures

Bloomsbury imprint Raven Books has fought off competition in a five-publisher auction to buy a thriller by Alice Clark-Platts, as part of a six-figure two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Copies of Mary Shelley's original Frankenstein text to be published

Shelley spent nine months by Lake Geneva writing the story of the bringing to life of a monster Percy Shelley’s correction of Mary Shelley’s misspelling of “igmmatic” in the notebooks in which she scrawled the story of Frankenstein – “enigmatic o you pretty Pecksie!” he wrote – will be seen in... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mystery publisher's thriller snapped up worldwide

Harvill Secker has paid a six-figure sum for a thriller written by "a member of the publishing workforce" under the pseudonym Jessica Barry. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Corvus and A M Heath launch thriller competition

Atlantic imprint Corvus has joined forces with literary agency A M Heath to launch a crime and thriller competition. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Prize for thriller novels without female victims draws mixed reactions

One female writer is setting up a book prize to reward the best crime novel in which no woman is the victim. Some – inspired by the #MeToo movement – are happy with the initiative, others fear it fails to address tough, real life issues.  Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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