"Geordie Shore" star Vicky Pattison, who released her autobiography earlier this year, is to write two novels. Manpreet Grewal, commissioning editor, acquired world rights to the books for Little, Brown Book Group imprint Sphere from David Riding at MBA. Pattison’s novels will focus on a “young woman who’s plucked from obscurity and thrown into the media-crazy world of reality TV”. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Random House, is publishing YouTube star Caspar Lee's memoir, authored in collaboration with the 21-year-old's mum. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Iona Grey has been honoured with the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s "highest accolade", The Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel of the Year, for her book Letters to the Lost (Simon & Schuster). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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J K Rowling is set to release four new pieces of writing through her Pottermore website, telling the history of magic in North America. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Usborne has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to a debut YA novel about a transgender teenager. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Demand for DC’s Super Hero Girls line has been so high the publisher is adding a second book to the program months before the first book in the series even publishes. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sphere is publishing two new novels from Alex Marwood, author of The Wicked Girls. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Photographer Glenna Gordon captures the lives of remarkable women self-publishing romance novels and other stories in northern Nigeria. The post The Subversive Women Who Self-Publish Novels Amid Jihadist War appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2016-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gallic Books is to publish a "skilfully woven state-of-the-nation novel" by Antoine Laurain called French Rhapsody. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group is partnering with ITV’s Lorraine show to find a new children’s author. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new stage adaptation of Harper Lee's novel 'Mockingbird' will reportedly be written by Sorkin. 'Mockingbird' was adapted as an Oscar-winning film in 1962 starring Gregory Peck. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Author JK Rowling has announced a new book which will follow the next generation as they set off for Hogwarts. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald
[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2016-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison, the authors of Lobsters and Never Evers, are writing a new YA novel about the first year of university. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When Dani Shapiro was writing about her mother in her memoir "Slow Motion," she imagined sending her on a cruise around the world that would last exactly as long it took the book to "pass from public consciousness." Instead, she had a close friend, a parent of a teenager, give the manuscript a... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperFicton literary imprint The Borough Press has acquired a "unique perspective" on the effects of the Syrian War, An Unsafe Haven by Nada Awar Jarrar. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Queen of the Jungle' Vicky Pattison has renewed with Sphere to publish three new books across both non-fiction and fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pushkin Press has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to a novel by Danish author Dorthe Nors. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Four Graham Greene novels are to be dramatised for BBC Radio 4, as 2016 marks 25 years since the author's death. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Victorian murder mystery The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge is named Costa Book of the Year - only the second children's novel to win in the prize's history. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2016-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has bought a Japanese novel about a cat, The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Launched last year, the Crave app for romance ebooks is experimenting with a new form of reading, one that serves text and multimedia content in short, addictive bursts. The post A New Romance Book App “Crave” Promises to Save the Novel appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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