The former Lord Mayor of Sheffield Magid Magid’s first book, a personal “manifesto for change”, will be published by Bonnier Books UK following a six-way auction. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-18 02:14:46 UTC ]
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John Murray has snapped up an American debut, Memphis, based on Tara Stringfellow’s "extraordinary" family history, in a five-way auction for a "strong" five-figure sum. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-15 17:46:06 UTC ]
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson editorial director Federico Andornino has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in Tiffany McDaniel’s Betty. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 02:17:27 UTC ]
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Ridley Scott's production company Scott Free has triumphed in a three-way auction to win the film and television rights for I Alone Survive (Hodder and Stoughton) by début author Bethany Clift. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-05 19:12:41 UTC ]
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Film rights to Richard Osman’s debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club (Viking), have been snapped up by Amblin Partners in a 14-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-05 16:08:49 UTC ]
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Alix O’Neill’s memoir of growing up in a Republican area of Belfast during the 1990s has gone to Fourth Estate Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-10 02:33:14 UTC ]
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Pushkin Press has sold YA debut Bearmouth by Liz Hyder to Norton in the US following a three-way bidding war. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 19:34:40 UTC ]
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W&N has landed the "virtuoso" debut novel from poet Sam Riviere in a multi-publisher auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-18 05:10:37 UTC ]
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Raven Books has snapped up Greenwich Park by debut author Katherine Faulkner following a "passionately fought auction" with four publishers head-to-head in the final round. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-15 07:49:05 UTC ]
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Century has snapped up the "wickedly-funny and heartbreaking" memoirs of an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer following a major 14-publisher auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-10 22:25:39 UTC ]
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Transworld has snapped up the first book from Vogue columnist Nell Frizzell, The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts and the Mother of all Decisions, following a 13-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-10 15:25:44 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has acquired Irish writer Louise Kennedy’s debut collection of short stories and her first novel in a "fiercely contested" nine-way bidding war, ahead of this month’s Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 22:07:05 UTC ]
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Scholastic has won a "heated" auction for a middle-grade debut about an 11-year-old with a stammer who wants to become a stand-up comedian. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-30 12:33:54 UTC ]
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Faber will publish a major work of non-fiction by New Yorker staff writer Sam Knight, as Amazon Studios options screen rights after a 19-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-20 07:26:12 UTC ]
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Essex author Lorna Cook has won the Romantic Novelists' Association's (RNA) prestigious Joan Hessayon Award for new writers with her debut novel The Forgotten Village (Avon). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-16 02:19:21 UTC ]
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Faber has snapped up the rights to a debut Dutch novel by 28-year-old poet and dairy farmer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld following a three-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-01 15:44:03 UTC ]
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Bluemoose Books has sold Ronan Hession’s debut Leonard and Hungry Paul to Melville House in America following a three-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-24 14:13:37 UTC ]
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Europa Editions UK has secured Karen Powell's "extraordinary" debut novel at auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-03 08:02:49 UTC ]
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Following a “highly competitive” seven-way bidding war, Atlantic Books has acquired a prison diary by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Chris Atkins from his time at HMP Wandsworth. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-27 02:41:09 UTC ]
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Little, Brown imprint Orbit has won a three-publisher auction for a new epic fantasy series from author Mike Brooks. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-23 21:58:45 UTC ]
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Headline has scooped the "beautifully original" debut from ex-snowboarder Allie Reynolds for six figures following a 10-publisher auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-23 19:44:19 UTC ]
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