Hamish Hamilton acquires Naqvi debut

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 30/08/2011 - 08:00 Hamish Hamilton has acquired Home Boy by H M Naqvi, winner of the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in January this year. Publishing director Simon Prosser bought British Commonwealth rights from Margaret Halton at Rogers, Coleridge and White to the novel, which was originally published in the US in 2009 by Shaye Areheart Books, and then in 2010 by HarperCollins India. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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