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Chicken House and production company Altitude Film Entertainment have jointly acquired Moondust by debut writer Gemma Fowler.   Chicken House will publish the novel in autumn 2016 and Chicken House and Altitude will develop a film script based on the book. Rights were acquired from film agent Luke Speed and literary agent Sandra Sawicka at Marjacq Scripts.   Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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