Canongate snaps up noir thriller by janitor

Canongate has acquired a noir thriller by Buenos Aires-based janitor and author K Ferrari. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 18:47:30 UTC ]
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Canongate acquires story collection from John Edgar Wideman

Canongate is to publish a set of stories from US writer John Edgar Wideman, 40 years after the author released his first collection.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 14:47:16 UTC ]
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McCulloch's mountain thriller debut to PMJ in six-way auction

Penguin Michael Joseph has acquired a "unique" and "chilling" debut thriller, Breathless, from mountaineer and former Puffin editor Amy McCulloch, in a two-book deal, following a six-way auction.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-18 19:05:59 UTC ]
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Five new thrillers offer guilt-free distraction

New books by Lisa Gardner, Lee Goldberg, Abigail Dean, Paraic O’Donnell and Kwei Quartey Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-15 15:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Books pre-empts YA thriller from 'astounding new voice'

Penguin Books has pre-empted What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson, a YA debut about "beauty, brutality and broken people trying to survive", branded "a masterpiece of a thriller". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 13:52:08 UTC ]
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Firefly Press snaps up Clarke's debut

Firefly Press has acquired book blogger and school librarian Jo Clarke's debut, middle-grade detective story Libby and the Parisian Puzzle, set in a school that travels the world.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 10:37:54 UTC ]
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Stacey Abrams' Washington conspiracy thriller to HarperFiction

HarperFiction has netted While Justice Sleeps by US politician and lawyer Stacey Abrams, a “powerful” political thriller about a young law clerk who is left to unravel a conspiracy in the heart of Washington. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-11 14:24:23 UTC ]
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Pavilion snaps up new book from 'Junior Bake Off' judge Gill

Pavilion has snapped up the “joyful” new book by pastry chef and “Junior Bake Off” judge Ravneet Gill. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-07 23:44:38 UTC ]
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Canongate promotes Lord, Luchsinger and Watt

Canongate has announced a raft of promotions ahead of the new year, across its sales and audio divisions.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-22 00:43:46 UTC ]
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Viper wins Dave’s 'pulse-pounding thriller'

Miranda Jewess, senior commissioning editor at Serpent's Tail imprint Viper, has acquired The Last Thing He Told Me by US author Laura Dave after a four-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 18:47:13 UTC ]
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John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89

Breaking from the James Bond mold, he turned the spy novel into high art as he explored the moral compromises of agents on both sides of the Iron curtain. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2020-12-14 16:04:51 UTC ]
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S&S snaps up picture book duo from Davies

Simon & Schuster Children’s Books has snapped up two new picture books from author-illustrator Benji Davies.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 21:12:01 UTC ]
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Canongate lands McCrae's 'emotionally forthright' memoir

Canongate is to publish US poet Shane McCrae's memoir Pulling the Chariot of the Sun.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-04 00:56:53 UTC ]
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New Paula Hawkins thriller coming from Transworld in August 2021

Transworld has announced the publication of a new book from bestselling novelist Paula Hawkins next summer – the "propulsive, twisty" thriller A Slow Fire Burning. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-02 04:03:19 UTC ]
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Sphere wins Walden's feminist thriller Payday in six-figure deal

Sphere has won British journalist Celia Walden's "fiercely intelligent" thriller Payday at auction, in a "competitive" six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-01 22:05:28 UTC ]
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Love suspense? Here are 5 new thrillers that will have you on the edge of your seat.

New books by Michael Connelly, Halley Sutton, Aya de Leon, Robert Harris and S.J. Rozan. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-30 15:00:00 UTC ]
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Bradbury Noir: The Crimes of a Science Fiction Master

THE SKELETONS IN Ray Bradbury’s closet are out in Killer, Come Back to Me, a career-spanning collection of the science fictioneer’s crime stories. These 300 pages present a new side to readers who only know Bradbury from such classics as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953).... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-11-24 13:30:59 UTC ]
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Danger and Depth in Literary Thrillers: This Month’s Audiobook Recommendations

“A spoonful of honey makes the medicine go down,” says S. A. Cosby on the appeal of thrillers. The medicine he’s referring to is themes like racism, poverty, and income inequality woven throughout his debut novel, Blacktop Wasteland. “It’s easier to talk about those things,” Cosby says, “if... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-23 09:48:50 UTC ]
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Canongate bags Alan Rickman's diaries

Canongate is to publish The Diaries of Alan Rickman, after securing world English-language rights.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-23 02:19:59 UTC ]
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Harvill Secker snaps up 'heartwarming' novel about three Catholic nuns

Harvill Secker will publish Small Miracles by Anne Booth, the story of three Catholic nuns who turn to playing the lottery in the hopes of saving their run-down convent. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-22 21:02:53 UTC ]
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Cape snaps up 'exquisite' memoir from Hewitt

Jonathan Cape has snapped up an “exquisite” memoir about the challenges facing gay men today from acclaimed poet and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year shortlistee Seán Hewitt. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-03 07:03:12 UTC ]
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