Cory Doctorow’s ‘Attack Surface’ is a riveting techno-thriller

Doctorow’s speculative fiction may not have predicted our current moment, but it’s still savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

[ The Washington Post | 2020-10-13 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookouture signs two thrillers from bestselling self-published author

Bookouture has struck a deal for two new psychological thrillers with the author of number one ebook bestseller Silent Child. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HQ buys two thrillers from Avon editor Morgan

HQ will publish two more books from Avon commissioning editor Phoebe Morgan, including a “gripping” psychological thriller about a dark secret hidden by a wife from her husband. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld signs 'unsettling' Danish thriller

Transworld is to publish a "tense, unsettling and deeply moving" novel of a family in trouble by Danish author Ane Riel. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lupton moves to Viking for school siege thriller

Rosamund Lupton, author of bestsellers Sister, Afterwards and The Quality of Silence, has moved from Piatkus to Viking with her new novel about a school siege. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thriller with 'the mother of all twists' to Orion after auction

Orion Fiction has acquired a psychological suspense debut at auction with "the mother of all high-concept twists". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nearly there: eleven and counting for Swedish thriller

A Swedish thriller with "relentless twists and turns" portraying "every parent’s nightmare" has been sold into 11 territories since it went on submission a week ago, with offers "streaming in" from other markets. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Debut thriller writer Ingrid Alexander to Avon

Avon Books has bought a psychological thriller, described as mixture of S. J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep and cult film "Single White Female", by debut Australian author Ingrid Alexandra. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vallance signs first adult thriller with Sphere

Sphere has signed Jessica Vallance's first adult fiction novel ahead of London Book Fair, an "addictive" psychological thriller. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HQ's post-natal thriller optioned for film

Thriller debut Little Darlings by Melanie Golding has been optioned by Free Range Films, months after it was snapped up by HQ in a six-figure pre-empt. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon shares fall after Trump's Twitter attacks

Amazon shares took a hit after President Donald Trump attacked the online store on social media, this time accusing it of not being on a "level playing field" with “fully tax paying retailers” and of ripping off the US postal service. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oneworld strikes 'substantial' six-figure deal for more Dean thrillers

Oneworld's literary crime imprint Point Blank has acquired three more titles in Will Dean's Tuva Moodyson series for six-figures in a "substantial" deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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4th Estate swoops in on Korean thriller The Plotters

4th Estate has won a five-way auction for a literary crime thriller The Plotters by South Korean writer Un-su Kim. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Morrow splashes six figures on blizzard thriller ahead of LBF

William Morrow has bought North American rights to Taylor Adams’ thriller No Exit in a mid-six figure deal struck ahead of London Book Fair. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hot Key buys debut YA thriller set in Norway

Hot Key Books, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre, has acquired world rights, including translation, film and merchandising, for a YA ghost story set in the remote snows of contemporary Norway. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Daring' thriller to Orenda in two-book deal

Orenda Books has signed Will Carver’s "dark and daring" thriller Good Samaritans in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If He Wakes thriller debut to Canelo

Canelo has signed a psychological suspense novel about two women who learn "harrowing truths" about their partners. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poet Savannah Brown pens YA thriller

Penguin Random House Children’s has acquired a YA thriller from debut writer and poet Savannah Brown. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fundraising bid to map attacks against freedom of expression

Index on Censorship is bidding to raise £15,000 by the end of this month to map attacks against freedom of expression and demand governments do more to stop them. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The new Scandi noir: the Korean writers reinventing the thriller

The country has emerged as a surprising literary force as a novel by the ‘Korean Henning Mankell’ bags a six-figure deal and sparks a global bidding warLast December, Korean novelist Un-su Kim set out on an eight-month deep-sea fishing trip as part of research for his next book. Unreachable by... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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