Coronet acquires 'timely' debut exploring extinction and survival

Coronet has acquired the debut novel of Kate Sawyer examining life after near global extinction. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-24 19:02:14 UTC ]
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Dead Ink bags Missouri's dystopian debut

Dead Ink Books and Farrar Straus & Giroux (FSG) are to publish Missouri Williams’ "brilliant and depraved" debut novel The Doloriad next year, with FSG's MCD imprint publishing in the US. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-15 03:38:21 UTC ]
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UK: Welbeck Acquires Australian Illustrator Robert Ingpen’s Backlist

en titles from illustrator Robert Ingpen now form the basis of a new UK children's book publishing imprint, Welbeck Children's Classics. The post UK: Welbeck Acquires Australian Illustrator Robert Ingpen’s Backlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-01-14 17:48:52 UTC ]
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Debut fiction did well in pandemic-hit 2020

Debut novelists performed solidly last year, despite widespread fears that they would lose out to more established authors due to 2020's pandemic-hit publishing schedules. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-14 13:16:53 UTC ]
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'Brilliantly funny' debut of Avon's Ellie Pilcher to Hodder Studio

Hodder Studio has acquired a "brilliantly funny" romantic comedy from Avon marketing manager Ellie Pilcher: What Planet Can I Blame This On? Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-14 08:24:39 UTC ]
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Boiler House acquires Pester's 'unsettling' short stories

University of East Anglia publisher Boiler House Press is to publish Ben Pester’s debut short story collection Am I in the Right Place? Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-13 04:00:35 UTC ]
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Scholastic UK acquires book from Mangan siblings

Scholastic UK has acquired Escape the Rooms, the "dazzling" children’s book debut from actor Stephen Mangan, illustrated by his sister Anita Mangan. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-13 03:30:19 UTC ]
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Midas acquires The bks Agency

Cultural communications agency Midas has acquired literary agency The bks Agency. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 23:35:15 UTC ]
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Duchess of York's debut novel scooped by Mills & Boon

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has penned her debut novel, a fictional account of her great-great aunt's life, to be published by Mills & Boon. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 22:12:59 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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Sadeqa Johnson’s ‘Yellow Wife’ chronicles one tenacious enslaved woman’s survival in the antebellum South

The historical novel follows the daughter of a healer who risks everything to defy a cruel jailer. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-12 07:04:40 UTC ]
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Daunt Books Originals acquires 'landmark work' of Black studies professor

Daunt Books Publishing has acquired Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe, a work of creative non-fiction about memorial and remembrance. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-11 23:40:05 UTC ]
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Headline Review bags 'swoon-worthy' debut

Headline Publishing Group has acquired The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, a "bold, swoon-worthy and utterly modern" debut novel. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-11 23:10:10 UTC ]
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Ved Mehta, whose monumental autobiography explored life in India, dies at 86

Blind since age 3, he used amanuenses to dictate sentences that he wrote in his head and revised out loud. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-11 16:01:53 UTC ]
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W&N bags 'timely' critique of wokeness

W&N has acquired "a timely critique of wokeness", The Awokening by Ayishat Akanbi, which urged readers to unify in a time of polarisation. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-10 16:53:47 UTC ]
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Gary Paulsen’s Real-Life Survival Guide

“Gone to the Woods” is a memoir so rife with childhood trauma he wrote it in the third person. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-01-09 08:01:28 UTC ]
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Neil Sheehan Dies at 84; Times Reporter Obtained the Pentagon Papers

His exhaustive coverage of the Vietnam War also led to the book “A Bright Shining Lie,” which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-01-07 23:20:39 UTC ]
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PRH Children's scoops 'explosive' YA debut from Alvarez

Penguin Random House Children’s Books has scooped Lies Like Wildfire, the “compulsive and explosive” debut YA novel from Jennifer Lynn Alvarez. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-07 03:46:12 UTC ]
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Little, Brown to publish 'powerful' debut from Daniel Loedel

Little, Brown UK has acquired Daniel Loedel's literary debut, Hades, Argentina, billed as "gripping" and "ingeniously narrated". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-06 13:50:59 UTC ]
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