Chatto scores biography of Vaughan Williams song

Chatto & Windus has scored The Captain’s Apprentice: Biography of a Song by Caroline Davison, to publish for the 150th anniversary of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-07 02:19:34 UTC ]

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Chatto acquires Sadie Jones's first contemporary novel, 'The Snakes'

Chatto & Windus has signed an "unflinching" new novel from Sadie Jones called The Snakes, telling the story of a marriage and a family whose sins come back to bite them.  Publishing director Clara Farmer, who dubbed it a pacy novel of "tight plot turns and urgent moral questioning",... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chatto acquires debut poetry collection exploring Grenfell fire

Chatto & Windus has acquired a "powerful" debut poetry collection exploring the New Cross massacre of 1981 and the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brooke leaves Chatto for Sceptre

Juliet Brooke is moving from Chatto & Windus to Sceptre to become its editorial director. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Memorial to celebrate life of Penny Hoare

The life of Penny Hoare, former deputy publishing director at Chatto & Windus, who died in May this year, will be celebrated at a memorial on Thursday 26th October. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chatto to publish 'fireball of a poet' Danez Smith

Chatto & Windus has acquired Danez Smith’s second poetry collection, Don’t Call Us Dead. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New novel from Blake Morrison to Chatto

Chatto & Windus has acquired The Executor by poet, novelist and memoirist, Blake Morrison. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Atlantic's Fran Owen joins the Vintage communications team

Fran Owen, publicity director at Atlantic, is joining Vintage as publicity director for Chatto & Windus, Hogarth and Square Peg in a job-share role with publicity director Mari Yamazaki. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Criado-Perez to publish feminist 'call to arms' on data gap

Chatto & Windus has acquired feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez’s second book, Atypical, to be published in 2018.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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C&W signs 'heartbreaking' story by PEN International president

Chatto & Windus is to publish Gun Love, a "powerful and heartbreaking" story of a mother and daughter by novelist and PEN International president Jennifer Clement. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Judy Murray book to Chatto & Windus

Vintage imprint Chatto & Windus is publishing Judy Murray's memoir in summer 2017, offering a "fascinating insight into how champions are made". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Forgotten hero of natural history' to Chatto & Windus

Chatto & Windus is publishing an account of the life of Frank Buckland, a "forgotten yet extraordinary" surgeon, pioneer conservationist and natural historian of the 19th century held in as high esteem as Charles Darwin in his own time. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Printed book sales rise for first time in four years as ebooks decline

Adult colouring book craze and 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland helped revival in traditional publishing last yearSales of printed books have grown for the first time in four years, lifted by the adult colouring book craze and 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland, as ebooks suffered... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chatto & Windus snaps up I Found My Tribe

Chatto & Windus is publishing debut author Ruth Fitzmaurice's I Found My Tribe. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Romany Gypsies portrait to Chatto

Chatto & Windus has "beaten stiff competition" at auction to secure rights to Stopping Places: Tracing the Old Gypsy Ways across Modern Britain by Damian Le Bas. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mukherjee wins Encore Award

Neel Mukherjee has won the £10,000 Encore Award for his novel The Lives of Others (Chatto & Windus). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mukherjee, Lane, Hunt on Encore shortlist

Man Booker shortlistee Neel Mukherjee is among the six authors shortlisted for the £10,000 Encore Award for a second novel. Mukherjee is shortlisted for The Lives of Others (Chatto & Windus), which was also on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2014. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Janet Ellis novels among raft of pre-Fair deals

Two Roads has acquired two novels by actress and ex-"Blue Peter" presenter Janet Ellis in a deal done just before the London Book Fair. Meanwhile Chatto & Windus, Hodder & Stoughton, Serpent's Tail and Penguin Press are among the other publishers announcing pre-LBF deals. Lisa Highton,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chatto pre-empts Scream-inspired novel

Chatto & Windus has pre-empted a debut novel inspired by Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream. Publishing director Clara Farmer acquired world rights to The Strawberry Girl by Lisa Strømme from Bill Hamilton at A M Heath. The novel is set in 1893 in a small fishing community in the Norwegian... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Southbank to create Alice in Wonderland 'immersive experience'

Macmillan and Southbank Centre have teamed up to put on an immersive theatre production to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. As part of the Imagine Children’s Festival, sponsored The Book People, which takes place from Monday 9th February to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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