Good news for '80s kids who preferred Blane McDonough to Duckie Dale: "Pretty in Pink" star Andrew McCarthy, who went from Brat Pack actor to travel writer and television director, is coming out with his first novel. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
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Jonathan Cape has triumphed in a five-way auction for award-winning evolutionary biologist Nichola Raihani’s debut Together: How Cooperation Shaped Humankind. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson has landed the "gorgeously complex" debut novel from Haleh Agar. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline's sister imprint Headline Review has snapped up the "heady and compulsive" debut novel from Hazel Barkworth in a pre-empt deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion Fiction has bagged the author Frances Quinn's debut novel at auction, telling the story of England’s smallest man. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Headline has snapped up the "hilarious and insightful" debut novel by Christina Bradley about a woman who goes on 30 dates in as many days. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Hodder & Stoughton has signed the debut crime novel by broadcast journalist Will Shindler in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has bagged the “glorious” debut novel from New York psychiatrist Arlene Heyman. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The UK's quarterly 'Index on Censorship' has opened its 45-year archive to free readership, a response to an era of fake news and leadership lies. The post Industry Notes: SAGE Publishing Makes UK’s Index on Censorship Archive Free appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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John Young’s Farewell Tour of a Terminal Optimist (Kelpies Edge) is the winner of this year’s £3,000 Scottish Teenage Book Prize, an award run by Scottish Book Trust and supported by Creative Scotland. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette's Octopus Publishing Group is launching a new narrative non-fiction imprint aiming to become "a home for new ideas, inspiring stories and fresh takes on the world". Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Ebury Press has acquired Cosmopolitan’s award-winning features writer Jennifer Savin’s debut novel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the weeks leading up to the national bicentennial of July 4, 1976, communities across America joined in the craze for shoving time capsules into the ground. Among them was the town of Lima, Ohio. But while Lima buried the usual payload of comic books and bumper stickers, local officials... Continue reading at AdWeek
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A debut literary crime thriller, Sixteen Horses, by UEA graduate Greg Buchanan has been snapped up following an exclusive partial submission at pre-empt by Mantle in the UK and Flatiron in the US. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reach, which also owns Daily Express and Daily Star, reports £120m pre-tax loss for 2018Reach, the publisher of the Daily Mirror and Daily Express, has warned about the impact of Brexit on advertising, as it made a £200m writedown on its newspaper business that pushed it into the red for... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Karen Sullivan, publisher of Orenda Books, has acquired World English Language rights for 29-year-old Icelandic debut author Eva Bjorg AEgisdottir’s The Creak on the Stairs in a two-book, London Book Fair pre-empt. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HQ has acquired "an epically romantic love story" by YA author Tom Ellen which will be one of its lead title for London Book Fair next month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dialogue has bought a debut from Nigerian-born author Buki Papillon about a boy's secret intersex identity and his desire to live as a girl. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Though it’s certainly unusual for the Academy Awards to have no official host, the ceremony on Sunday won’t quite be a first—that honor belongs to the 1939 Oscars, which were similarly host-less. However, there are quite a few nominees this year who could find themselves in the history books if... Continue reading at Slate
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Indie publisher Allison & Busby has bagged a "wonderful" historical romance set on the Isle of Wight by debut author Heather Cooper. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Orion Fiction has scooped a "suspenseful page-turner" on new motherhood by Curtis Brown Creative alumna Nikki Smith in a two-book pre-emptive deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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