C L Taylor’s latest thriller has been snapped up for screen and a possible stage adaptation by Bill Kenwright Films. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Director Mark Tonderai has acquired the film rights to Jacaranda Books title The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital publisher Bookouture has signed three more crime thrillers from Patricia Gibney whose debut The Missing Ones has sold almost half a million copies since its release in March this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton is publishing a new "highly topical" legal thriller from John Grisham this October, The Rooster Bar, inspired by the student debt crisis. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has signed up newspaper and magazine journalist Sandie Jones’ debut, a “dark domestic” psychological thriller called The Other Woman. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Among the books just snatched up in Hollywood are a nonfiction title by CNN anchor Jake Tapper, a not-yet-published book about the unheralded female rock stars of Silicon Valley, and a Spiegel & Grau-published novel about a woman who goes missing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins imprint HQ has acquired world English language rights to two books by IT officer and screenwriter, Khurrum Rahman. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has bought two more books from psychological thriller writer, TV producer and script editor Michelle Frances. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Atlantic imprint Corvus has signed a "completely compulsive" psychological thriller by Jennifer Hillier in a "hotly contested and fiercely fought auction". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic UK has signed a "tense" YA psychological thriller inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and titled Shell. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Relic Hunters by David Leadbeater is inaugural winner of online retailer’s DIY publishing prizeThe writer David Leadbeater has struck gold with his self-published archaeological thriller, The Relic Hunters, scooping up the first Amazon Kindle Storyteller award.Leadbeater pronounced it “a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twenty-three years ago, Jeff Bezos was selling books out of his garage. On Thursday, the Amazon chief executive at least temporarily dethroned Bill Gates as the richest person in the world. Following a 1.3% jump in Amazon.com Inc. shares Thursday morning, Bezos, 53, was worth as much as $91.3... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Taylor & Francis Group saw sales rise 11.3% year-on-year to £238.9m in the six months to 30th June 2017, although underlying growth was put at just 1.2%, suggesting the publisher saw a boost from foreign exchange and the weakened pound. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A debut which made a splash at the London Book Fair this year may be set to make it onto the big screen after the 26-year-old author sold film rights to the title. Catalyst Global Media has optioned The Lido by Libby Page, which sold for six figures to Orion in the UK on the eve of London Book... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Toni Collette's production company nabs a suspense novel; Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Cycle is optioned for a TV show on Syfy; 20th Century Fox buys a thriller by Michelle Richmond; and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new commercial development operation and consultancy for small independent children’s publishers called Kid Gloves, has been established by Roy Johnson, commercial director at New Frontier and former key accounts manager for Frances Lincoln Children’s Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon James Green’s YA debut, Noah Can’t Even, has been optioned for TV by Urban Myth Films. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has bought two more books from thriller writer Fiona Cummins, whose debut Rattle published in hardback earlier this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Art openings around Los Angeles: including Gary Simmons at CAAM, an artist exchange at Vielmetter and John Mason at Kayne Griffin Corcoran. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion Fiction has acquired two novels by debut crime author Clare Empson, the first of which is an "intensely dark" thriller called Him. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What are the books that have just been optioned for TV and film? In this, our first of a new bi-weekly column, deals close for a memoir by Patricia Lockwood and a nonfiction book about a group of men who broke the color barrier in corporate America. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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