Pan Macmillan has acquired actor Brian Blessed’s autobiography. Editorial director Ingrid Connell bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Tim Bates at Pollinger Ltd. Blessed has been acting for more than 50 years and has appeared in more than 200 films and TV programmes, including "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" and "Blackadder". He is also the oldest man to have trekked to the magnetic North Pole and to have climbed to 28,000 feet with oxygen, and he is a boxer who sparred with Joe Louis and Mohammad Ali. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Fri, 17/06/2011 - 10:56 Blockbuster writer Jackie Collins is to get a backlist makeover and a new marketing push, after Simon & Schuster bought her first 20 novels from Pan Macmillan. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 07/06/2011 - 10:47 Crime writer David Hewson is to novelise the Bafta-winning Danish crime TV series "The Killing" for Pan Macmillan, following the publisher's acquisition of world novelisation rights. Acquiring editor Trisha Jackson said:... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 01/06/2011 - 09:52 E-book sales accounted for over 8% of Pan Macmillan's trade sales in the first quarter of 2011, with the publisher predicting a rise to up to 10% by the end of the year. Over the same period, the publisher's sales of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 08/04/2011 - 12:36 Pan Macmillan has acquired world rights in a "superb" new novel from Susanna Jones, author of The Missing Person's Guide to Love. When Nights Were Cold is a "gripping tale of ambition and rivalry, madness and revenge in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Mon, 04/04/2011 - 08:50 Titles by Jane Fallon, Katie Fforde and Lucy Diamond have been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance 2011. Fallon was shortlisted for Foursome (Penguin), Fforde for A Perfect Proposal (Random House) and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 15/03/2011 - 15:45 Apple's latest version of its iBooks app, which allows ebooks to have a pictorial layout similar to printed books and supports full page illustrations, has been hailed by one publisher as being "the beginning of a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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