Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 23/11/2011 - 07:55 Authors including Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child and P D James will appear as part of Crimefest's 2012 programme, which will take place from 24th to 27th May next year. Crimefest 2012 will be the fifth year of the international crime convention, with Pan Macmillan's novelisation of Scandinavian TV drama "The Killing" to launch at the event, with an interview with the book's author David Hewson, and surprise appearances from the show's cast and production team. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Pan Macmillan has launched a new hardback classics imprint: Macmillan Collector’s Library. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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E L James' Fifty Shades of Grey series has claimed five spots on Apple's iBooks 2015 best-selling fiction chart while Jeffrey Archer has claimed four spots and Lee Child has two. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Pan Macmillan has acquired Oprah Winfrey’s memoir The Life You Want, a book that uses her own story as the source of inspirational advice. Non-fiction publisher Robin Harvie bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Jennifer Rudolph Walsh at WME and will publish the memoir in January 2017,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Pan Macmillan and Orkney Library & Archive have joined forces to launch a new joint reading initiative, The Hurricane Book Club. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Pan Macmillan has acquired the Dales Detective series by Julia Chapman following a three-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Tesco and Pan Macmillan have partnered to raise money in support of national reading charity Readathon, working to provide books for sick children in the UK’s 30 largest children’s hospitals. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Lee Child’s 'Make Me,' released September 8, debuted at the top of Apple’s iBooks bestseller list for the week ended September 14. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Pan Macmillan has acquired a dystopian trilogy, the first draft of which was published on story writing community Wattpad, at auction for a six-figure sum. Senior commissioning editor Bella Pagan bought UK and Commonwealth rights to Slavedays and its sequels by Vic James [pictured] from Robert... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Paula Hawkins’ bestseller leads a crop of psychological thrillers, in a top 20 dominated by womenDark psychological thrillers dominate the list of the year’s bestselling ebooks unveiled by Amazon, with MP Nadine Dorries making it into a line-up composed almost entirely of female writers.The... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Pan Macmillan’s Bluebird imprint has acquired two more books by Joe Wicks. Wicks, also known as The Body Coach, is an online nutrition and fitness expert who has more than 430,000 followers on Instagram, where he posts pictures of meals from his #Leanin15 plan. He signed a two-book deal with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Peter James has signed a new five-book deal with Pan Macmillan, which includes three more novels in his Roy Grace series. Publishing director Wayne Brookes acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, including Canada, to the five books from Carole Blake at Blake Friedmann Literary Agency. As well as... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Mantle has acquired two novels by Kate Eberlen in a seven-way auction. Associate publisher Sam Humphreys bought UK and Commonwealth rights to Miss You and one other book from Mark Lucas at LAW. Miss You, which Pan Macmillan's Mantle imprint will publish next year, tells the story of Tess and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Pan Macmillan has made four “major” acquisitions as part of a “significant investment” in its business and popular science lists. Non-fiction publisher Robin Harvie bought UK and Commonwealth rights excluding Canada to The Storyteller’s Secret by Carmine Gallo from SMP. Gallo is the author of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Booksellers will get “quicker and wider access” to book proofs from across the publishing industry through a partnership with the Booksellers Association and NetGalley. UK booksellers will get access to digital proofs from over 50 publishers – including Bonnier, Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Felicity Wood talks to the head honchos of the ‘Big 4’ to get their thoughts on how 2015 has gone so far and what is to be expected in the second half Anthony Forbes Watson, m.d of Pan Macmillan Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Transworld has partnered with the Sun to host the first Jack Reacher Week, promoting books featuring the character by Lee Child. The partnership will see coverage in the Sun newspaper and online on its website, with the editorial and promotional campaign running next week (6th to 11th July).... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Pan Macmillan has acquired a book about how the forces of Christianity destroyed the texts of the ancient Greeks and Romans. The Darkening Age, by historian and journalist Catherine Nixey, will tell the story of how all over the ancient Roman world books were burnt, temples were thrown down and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Julie Crisp has signed up her first author as a literary agent following her departure from Pan Macmillan. Crisp will represent Sam Hawke, an Australian fantasy writer from Canberra, who has written a novel called Proof, described as “intelligent fantasy concentrating on issues of race, gender... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Pan Macmillan has paid tribute to the American writer James Salter, who died on Friday (19th June) at the age of 90. Salter's last book, All That Is, was published to acclaim by Picador last year. Baggaley described publishing the book "one of the greatest privileges I've had at Picador." Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Pan Macmillan has acquired a memoir by endurance swimmer Diana Nyad. In the 1970s, Nyad set a number of world records in endurance swimming, such as circling Manhattan Island and crossing the 102.5m between the Bahamas and Florida. But one record continually eluded her: becoming the first... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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