Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 24/05/2011 - 08:25 Sam Harrison at Aurum has bought a biography of Cold War spy George Blake by journalist Roger Hermiston. Harrison acquired UK and Commonwealth rights for a "significant" five figure sum from Andrew Gordon at David Higham Associates. The book will be the first biography of Blake for 20 years and draws on "extensive" original interviews, telling the spy's tale from fighting the Nazis in the Dutch Resistance, to the Korean war, a trial at the Old Bailey and a jailbreak from Wormwood Scrubs. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Egmont has scooped the first picture book from vloggers the Sacconejolys, who boast the largest family YouTube channel in Europe. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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HarperCollins has bought the début book from Gill Sims, the voice behind the hit Facebook blog "Peter and Jane". Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Champion jockey Declan Murphy wasn’t expected to survive a horrific riding accident in 1994 - let alone live to tell the tale, in conjunction with writer Ami Rao. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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US writer Bret Anthony Johnston has won this year's £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Telegraph Media Group has bought revision app Gojimo for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Maylis de Kerangal’s Mend The Living, which explores the emotional and physical complexities of organ donation, has been named as the £30,000 winner of the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Hodder Children’s Books, part of the Hachette Children’s Group, has acquired Moxie, a "timely and empowering" feminist YA novel from US author Jennifer Mathieu. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Viking has acquired rights to Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten, a non-fiction narrative history of Winston Churchill’s wartime leadership. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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John Murray publisher Mark Richards has pre-empted a novel about a "psychopathic but glamorous and alluring" Russian assassin, Codename Villanelle, by Luke Jennings. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Penguin Random House has agreed to buy major Barcelona-based publisher Ediciones B for a rumored €40 million, further consolidating its power in Spanish-language markets. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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“A True Book: President Donald Trump” describes Mr. Trump’s real estate career, as well as public perceptions of his opponent during the election, Hillary Clinton. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Echo Dot is a hands-free, voice-controlled device that uses Alexa to play music, control smart home devices, provide information, read the news, set alarms, read audiobooks from Audible, and more. In fact, new Alexa "skills" are being created all the time. Tell Alexa to start your usual order at... Continue reading at PC World
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Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB) has won world rights at auction for two LBGT-themed romance books written by a former Waterstones bookseller. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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DreamWorks Animation, the company behind the highly successful film franchise for Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon series, has now acquired all adaptation rights to Cowell's forthcoming fantasy adventure series The Wizards of Once. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Kindle Entertainment has acquired the TV rights to Nick Fisher’s debut novel Pot Luck (Peridot Press), a dark thriller set in a south coast fishing community. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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OWN IT! has sold audio rights to Prisoner to the Streets by Robyn Travis to Audible. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Rapper and producer Jay Z has partnered with the Weinstein Company to produce a feature film and documentary series about Trayvon Martin, the unarmed African American teenager killed by George Zimmerman in 2012. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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As part of the blitz of new features in the Windows 10 Creators Update (see our full review here), Microsoft has added e-reading capabilities to its Edge browser. It’s a bit quirky, given its infancy, but with a bit of practice you can be lounging by the pool with an electronic novel in no... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Phoebe Roy has won Sceptre's "Sceptre Loves" short story prize for "It Was Summer", a story charting a relationship between two men as it changes with the seasons. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Metrosource joins Davler as the publisher prepares to launch design vertical, Exuberance. The post Davler Media Group Buys LGBTQ Magazine and Teases New Quarterly appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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