Global Ken Follett 'book club' to launch

Pan Macmillan has launched an exclusive global book club for Ken Follett fans with digital reading platform The Pigeonhole. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Bluebird buys happiness book by Google's Mo

Pan Macmillan has pre-empted a book by the v.p. of business innovation at Google [X], the company behind Google Glass and the self-driving car. Carole Tonkinson bought UK and Commonwealth rights to Solve For Happy: Engineering Your Path to Uncovering the Joy Inside by Mo Gawdat, who likes to be... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Elizabeth is Missing voted favourite Richard and Judy Spring title

Emma Healey’s début novel Elizabeth is Missing (Penguin) has been voted as the best title in Richard and Judy’s Spring 2015 Book Club. Readers voted for their favourite book from the book club’s eight Spring picks on the W H Smith website. The second most-voted-for title was The Miniaturist by... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Romantic memoir to Bluebird

Pan Macmillan has acquired a romantic memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Brinkley-Rogers. Carole Tonkinson pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights to Please Enjoy Your Happiness for Pan Macmillan’s Bluebird imprint from Michael V Carlisle at InkWell Management. Please Enjoy Your... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac signs standalone thriller from Hannah

Pan Macmillan has acquired the first standalone thriller from crime writer Mari Hannah. Publishing director Wayne Brookes bought UK and Commonwealth rights including Canada to The Silent Room from Oli Munson at A M Heath. Hannah is the author of a series of novels, published by Pan Macmillan,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Trends in Book Marketing: Mobile, Millennials and More

For Sara Lloyd of Pan Macmillan, book marketing in 2015 is all about mobile, millennials, and the interplay of real and virtual worlds. — a topic she'll address at the LBF's Digital Minds conference next Monday. The post New Trends in Book Marketing: Mobile, Millennials and More appeared first... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Danielle Steel joins Pan Mac in 10-book deal

Danielle Steel has signed a 10-book contract with Pan Macmillan, moving to the publisher from Transworld, where she has been for the last 26 years. Jeremy Trevathan, publisher of Macmillan adult books, signed UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in a deal negotiated with Cullen Stanley... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Loose Women to launch TV Book Club

ITV daytime chat show Loose Women is today (March 24th) launching a new book club, with Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (Doubleday) picked as the first title. The book club, called Loose Books, will see a different Loose Women panellist pick a book to read each month, which will be... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac to publish Nelson Mandela sequel

Pan Macmillan is to publish the sequel to the late Nelson Mandela’s autobiography Long Walk to Freedom (Abacus). An incomplete draft of the new book, which does not yet have a title and which was started by Mandela before his death last year, is in the archives of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette, Pan Mac, Foyles lead Bookseller Industry Awards chase

A near-record haul from Hachette UK, an impressive total for Pan Macmillan and a history-making all-female Manager of the Year category are some of the highlights in this year's Bookseller Industry Awards (BIA) shortlists. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bluebird signs title on emotional success

Pan Macmillan’s Bluebird Books has pre-empted rights to Emotional Success: Harnessing the Power of Gratitude, Compassion, Pride and Guilt by psychology professor and Yale PhD, David De Steno. Bluebird’s Carole Tonkinson acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac buys Collector's Library

Pan Macmillan has bought Collector’s Library for an undisclosed sum. Harriet Sanders, currently rights director at Pan Macmillan, has been appointed publisher of Collector’s Library, which will become an imprint within Pan Macmillan under adult books publisher Jeremy Trevathan. The three... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Body Coach joins Bluebird

Pan Macmillan’s Carole Tonkinson has acquired two books from “internet sensation” Joe Wicks in a “heated” eight-publisher auction. Tonkinson bought world rights to Lean in 15: Fifteen Minute Meals and Workouts for your Ultimate Body and one other book from Jonathan Conway at Jonathan Conway... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac signs debut crime series

Pan Macmillan has acquired two novels in a debut crime series by journalist Michelle Davies in a three-way auction. Editor Catherine Richards bought UK and Commonwealth rights for the novels from Jane Gregory. The first, Gone Astray, follows Lesley Kinnock and her husband Mack, who win £12m on... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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True story of survival to Pan Mac

Pan Macmillan has acquired the account of fisherman Salvador Alvarenga who survived 14 months at sea, written by journalist Jonathan Franklin. UK and Commonwealth rights in the book, titled 438 Days: A Fisherman's True Survival at Sea, were acquired from Annabel Merullo at PFD. The book tells... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac starts sports list with two titles

Pan Macmillan has acquired the first titles for its new sports list. Non-fiction Publisher Robin Harvie acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Daniel Friebe’s The Best There Never Was from David Luxton Associates. Friebe’s book will be the “definitive” biography of Jan Ullrich, who alongside... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bravo: Mark Zuckerberg's Book Club Goes To Bat For Vaccination

For his next reading challenge pick, Zuckerberg announced a much-lauded pro-vaccination book.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has come out swinging in support of vaccination—and he wants his book club members to read all about it. Undaunted by the lukewarm reception to his first few picks,... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2015-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New picture book imprint for Macmillan Children's

Pan Macmillan will this autumn launch a children’s book imprint within Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB), to be run by Suzanne Carnell. Carnell is currently publishing director of picture books and pre-school of the MCB Under 6 division. Under the new imprint, which is yet to be named, she will... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jon Stewart’s Book Club

Jon Stewart announced plans Tuesday night to leave his perch on The Daily Show later this year. The shrieks and cries you heard coming from Manhattan and Brooklyn? That was the sound of publishing and media insiders realizing that their best avenue for jump-starting book sales and making... Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2015-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why Oprah Winfrey chose 'Ruby' for her book club

Cynthia Bond's novel "Ruby" is set in Texas and tells a fierce and poetic tale of a worldly, beautiful black woman, Ruby Bell, and her struggle not to be destroyed by her home community of Liberty Township. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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