Corvus has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Try Not to Breathe, a psychological thriller by debut novelist Holly Seddon. Corvus editorial director Maddie West cut the deal with Nicola Barr from Greene & Heaton. The debut involves journalist Alex, "whose career and personal life is on the skids and who is spiralling into alcoholism when she is offered a lifeline by investigating the case of Amy, who has been in a coma for fifteen years since she was attacked as a schoolgirl." Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Faber & Faber has signed Beeswing: Britain, Folk Rock and the End of the 60s by guitarist and singer-songwriter Richard Thompson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has acquired world rights for two books by Ant Middleton, ex-special forces sniper and star of Channel 4’s hit show "SAS: Who Dares Wins". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I’m books editor Carolyn Kellogg; welcome to this week’s newsletter. THE BIG STORY Akwaeke Emezi’s dazzling debut novel, “Freshwater,” is about a shattered self, a college-age human whose turmoils are driven by spirits and gods. Emezi, a Nigerian American who has written about having... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber has won a "dark and gripping" debut exploring the complex dynamic between a patient and a therapist after a five-way heated auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harvill Secker has paid a six-figure sum for a thriller written by "a member of the publishing workforce" under the pseudonym Jessica Barry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There was a prickly if fleeting moment in last month’s Grammy Awards telecast during the “In Memoriam” segment that honored Chester Bennington, the late Linkin Park frontman and father of six, who took his own life last July. Moments after Bennington’s face faded from the screen, the rapper Logic... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HQ has bought a "powerful feminist dystopia" by linguistics academic Christina Dalcher, billed as "The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Power", in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Borough Press has scooped a debut novel by British author Joe Mungo Reed, described as "dazzling" by his professor George Saunders. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (HarperCollins) has soared into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 29,442 copies for £170,329. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One female writer is setting up a book prize to reward the best crime novel in which no woman is the victim. Some – inspired by the #MeToo movement – are happy with the initiative, others fear it fails to address tough, real life issues. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gollancz is publishing a "genre-defining" fantasy duology by Icelandic debut author Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zephyr, the new children’s imprint at Head of Zeus, has bought a young fiction series by Carnegie Medal-winning author Sally Gardner. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twitter's European vice-president, Bruce Daisley, is publishing a book with Penguin Random House offering his insights for "redesigning" the world of work. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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AMP Stories. Credit: GoogleGoogle has launched AMP Stories, a feature that lets publishers create content similiar to Instagram Stories, but for mobile websites.AMP, short for Accelerated Mobile Page, loads content extremely fast. The open-source project was led by Google roughly two years ago,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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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Bonnier Zaffre has acquired "Strictly Come Dancing" star Anton Du Beke’s "sweeping historical" debut novel as a super lead for this autumn. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber & Faber has acquired a "dazzling" debut novel by Akwaeke Emezi which explores "multiple and marginalised realities". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown imprint Sphere has acquired world rights for YouTuber and presenter Amelia Mandeville's debut novel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Collins is to publish Girl With Dove: A Child’s Escape Through Reading, a memoir from Oxford lecturer Sally Bayley. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward will follow up her NBA-winning novel 'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' with two new books, to be published by Scribner and Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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