Granta Books has signed two books from New Yorker writer Wendell Steavenson. Laura Barber signed rights from Anna Webber at United Agents, on behalf of Bill Clegg at the Clegg Agency, following an auction. The two books are Three Days in Paris, an on-the-ground account of the Charlie Hebdo attack and a portrait of the city in turmoil, and Circling the Square, a chronicle, involving memoir and reportage, of Cairo during the Egyptian revolution. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Capstone has acquired a picture book by Carmen Oliver, author and founder of book agency The Booking Biz. Bears Make the Best Reading Buddies was created to encourage literacy and is about a little girl called Adelaide and her reading buddy, Bear. In the story, Adelaide has to persuade her... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SAGE has purchased Pion Limited, an independent publisher of academic journals. The sale, which was brokered by Bertoli Mitchell LLP, was announced jointly by chairman for Pion, David Cohen and Ziyad Marar, SAGE’s global publishing director. The acquisition results in Pion’s entire publishing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tech news blog Re/code has been acquired by online publishing company Vox Media, just 18 months after spinning off from its former parent, The Wall Street Journal. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Summersdale's recently-launched health imprint Vie will publish a memoir by British psychiatrist Linda Gask this September. The Other Side of Silence: A Psychiatrist's Memoir of Depression chronicles Gask's own experiences of depression. Despite spending her career helping other people's mental... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Granta Books has signed a non-fiction title on proposal by Lorna Gibb, looking at the concept of childlessness. The book will combine memoir, reportage and social science, and look at the condition of childlessness around the world, from stolen Aboriginal babies to the discrimination of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan has acquired two books by sports psychologist Professor Damian Hughes. Non-fiction publisher Robin Harvie acquired world rights to The Five Steps to a Winning Mindset and one other book from David Luxton at DLA. Luxton is the author of How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson, which was... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Virgin Books has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to Wildflower, a collection of autobiographical essays by actress and producer Drew Barrymore. In the essays Barrymore, who shot to fame as a child actress when she played Gertie in Steven Spielberg’s "E.T.", writes about incidents from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chicken House and production company Altitude Film Entertainment have jointly acquired Moondust by debut writer Gemma Fowler. Chicken House will publish the novel in autumn 2016 and Chicken House and Altitude will develop a film script based on the book. Rights were acquired from film agent... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has acquired a new epic fantasy series in a six-figure deal. Senior commissioning editor Bella Pagan bought world rights to John Gwynne’s standalone trilogy from agent John Jarrold. The trilogy will be set in the same stirring Celtic-inspired world as Gwynne’s first quartet, the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Biteback has acquired a memoir from radio presenter Paul Gambaccini about when he was falsely accused of sexual assault. The publisher acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to Love, Paul Gambaccini, which it describes as a “no-holds-barred story” about 12 months of trauma, from Caroline... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion has signed two books by Kate Lord Brown, who has previously been published by Atlantic’s Corvus imprint. Kate Mills, Orion publishing director, acquired the novels from Sheila Crowley at Curtis Brown, for a “good five-figure sum”. The first novel, The Christmas We Met, will be published... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Granta owner Sigrid Rausing has been shortlisted for the 2015 RSL Ondaatje Prize for her book Everything is Wonderful (Grove Press), alongside authors including Helen Dunmore and Elif Shafak. The annual award of £10,000 is given for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown Book Group has acquired a new novel by YA Book Prize-shortlisted author Keren David. Cuckoo, which will be published under the Atom imprint, is about a washed-up child star who needs a new home and a new direction, and finds them in unlikely places and through the most improbable... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ProQuest will assume ownership and management of Coutts and MyiLibrary, and “form a strategic partnership" with Ingram for print fulfillment. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic has acquired a royal superhero fantasy adventure series about Prince Alfie, heir to the throne, by TV scriptwriters Mark Huckerby and Nick Ostler. The publisher acquired world rights to two titles in the series and the first book, Defender of the Realm, will be published in 2016.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House imprint Vermilion has acquired a new book by Brené Brown about overcoming mistakes, called Rising Strong. Susanna Abbott, Vermilion publishing director, and Cathryn Summerhayes of WME agreed the deal for UK and Commonwealth rights. Brown is a research professor at the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The two spiritual leaders will collaborate on the book to share their perspectives on joy and achieving a meaningful life. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Open Road Integrated Media has secured rights to a large body of British writer Alan Sillitoe’s work, as well as the rights to his last, unpublished novel, 'Moggerhanger.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mantle has pre-empted a debut novel by Sharon Guskin. Associate publisher Sam Humphreys bought UK and Commonwealth rights to The Forgetting Time from Kerry Nordling for Flatiron Books. Amy Einhorn will publish for Flatiron in the US and Canada. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pushkin Children’s Books has acquired another book by Tonke Dragt, author of The Letter for the King. Publisher Adam Freudenheim acquired world English rights to the book, which was first published in Dutch in 1966, from Luciënne van der Leije at publishing house Leopold. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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