Andy McDermott’s thriller series snapped up for film

Andy McDermott’s Wilde/Chase action adventure series is to be adapted for film by Brooklyn-based production company Divine Rights Media. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-15 21:12:05 UTC ]

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HarperCollins snaps up Sims' third 'Why Mummy' book

HarperCollins will publish bestselling author Gill Sims' Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A **** next June, accompanied by a nationwide theatre tour. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Raven wins drinking game thriller on pre-empt

Raven Books has pre-empted a thriller, Never Have I Ever, about a drunken game which goes wrong from US author Joshilyn Jackson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Profile snaps up 'eye-opening' Beryl Burton biography

Profile Books will publish a biography of “legendary” Yorkshire cyclist Beryl Burton, through its Pursuit imprint in 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Salt snaps up Virago founder's memoir about the 'messiness of life'

Salt will publish Virago’s founder director Ursula Owen's "deeply engaging" memoir Single Journey Only.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury to publish new speculative thriller from John Marrs

Ebury Press has acquired an "explosive" new speculative thriller set in the near future from John Marrs, author behind The One (Ebury). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Netflix adapts Dahl's stories for original animated series

Netflix will create an original animated series of Roald Dahl stories including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and The Twits. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vintage reissues 50yo political thriller that 'speaks to our challenging times'

Vintage is reissuing Fletcher Knebel’s 1965 novel Night of Camp David, asking “What would happen if the president of the USA went stark-raving mad?”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Ice Monster snaps up a third week at number one

David Walliams and Tony Ross’ The Ice Monster (HarperCollins) has once again racked up mammoth sales to hold the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a third week running. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Game developer Rebellion is opening its own UK film and TV studio

The UK game developer behind Sniper Elite is opening its own film studio where it plans to shoot a Judge Dredd TV series and Rogue Trooper film. Rebellion, which also created the PSVR tank shooter Battlezone, nabbed the rights to the comic books afte... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2018-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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4th Estate snaps up Vogue columnist's 'irreverent take on modern life'

4th Estate will publish the debut non-fiction title, Raven Smith’s Trivial Pursuits, described as “a smart and irreverent take on modern life” from the Vogue columnist’s perspective. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Knights Of buys four-book series by Jason Reynolds

Inclusive publisher Knights Of has acquired the UK, Irish and Commonwealth rights to a four-book, 9+ series by Jason Reynolds. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Conversation Series Gets Cable TV Debut

Live Talk Los Angeles has launched on Spectrum Networks, turning an author event series into a weekly primetime TV show for 1.8 million subscribers in Southern California. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Keyes commissioned for Radio 4 comedy series

Marian Keyes is joining a host of names including Bridget Christie and Joanna Lumley in a new series of comedy commissions for BBC Radio 4. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline grabs high concept thriller debut

Headline Publishing Group has bought an "emotionally charged thriller", Jump, from Toronto-based journalist Samantha Bailey. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harvill Secker wins actor's parenthood thriller, Conception, at auction

Harvill Secker has won a "sharp" thriller about marriage, parenthood and obsession by debut author and actor C C MacDonald. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cover and title of sixth installment in Larsson's Millennium series revealed

Quercus has announced that the next title in the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium series by David Lagercrantz will be The Girl Who Lived Twice. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus buys two 'boundary-pushing' thrillers from Monroe

Head of Zeus (HoZ) will publish two more books from J S Monroe as the author attempts to "push the boundaries of high-concept psychological thrillers". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury snaps up 'essential' Anne Frank collection

Bloomsbury Continuum will publish Anne Frank: The Collected Works next May, in the year that she would have celebrated her 90th birthday. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Palgrave Study Skills series rebrands with 'bold, modern look'

The Palgrave Study Skills series has rebranded as Macmillan Study Skills, offering a “new identity, refreshed digital resources” as well as additional titles to aid student wellbeing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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