HarperCollins has signed a six-figure deal with Lionel Shriver for world English-language rights to Property. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
I don’t ever want to be pitted against Lionel Shriver because, frankly, I’m intimidated by her. Shriver is successful, wealthy and powerful and has that brisk, irascible manner of formidable older women who just don’t give a damn anymore. I was wary then when I was recently asked on a BBC... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 11:08:20 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has won Zakiya Dalila Harris’ The Other Black Girl, a satirical debut novel about race and authenticity in the workplace, for a six-figure deal following a nine-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-01 20:26:38 UTC ]
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Windmill’s new publishing director Charlotte Cray has pre-empted a “searing” début novel by Elizabeth Lee Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-12 04:39:53 UTC ]
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Canongate has signed a six-figurre deal for London-based author Tahmima Anam's fourth novel Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-10 17:15:51 UTC ]
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Doubleday has snapped up Hallie Rubenhold's new book, Bad Women, which tells the story of the 1910 murder of Belle Elmore, by her husband Dr Crippen, and the extraordinary women caught up in these events. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-23 20:24:32 UTC ]
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Kirty Topiwala, Hodder’s new head of non-fiction, has pre-empted a "revolutionary" book by Oxford psychologist Elaine Fox in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 16:55:47 UTC ]
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Hutchinson has signed a six-figure deal with author Nancy Tucker for her debut novel, The First Day of Spring, following an auction, with rights sold in the US, Brazil and France. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-15 10:14:07 UTC ]
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Hachette Children's Group has pre-empted a middle-grade series by J M Joseph in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-11 04:19:11 UTC ]
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Transworld has pre-empted The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman by debut author Julietta Henderson in a "significant" six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-08 21:23:29 UTC ]
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Princeton University Press has struck a six-figure deal with Harvard economist Claudia Goldin for her "urgent" book on gender disparity. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-12 13:03:07 UTC ]
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Walker Books has triumphed in an eight-way auction to publish the follow up to Malamander by Thomas Taylor in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-12 07:54:33 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has won a 15-publisher bidding war for a book on grief by podcaster Cariad Lloyd, in “one of the fiercest auctions” managed by agent Nelle Andrew of PFD, for a "significant" six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-04 20:54:25 UTC ]
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Adam Gnuse’s “haunting” gothic debut, Girl in the Walls, has gone to 4th Estate in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-23 16:12:02 UTC ]
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson has scooped Sir Trevor McDonald’s autobiography for a “significant” six-figure sum, taking readers through pivotal moments in history alongside personal reflections and stories. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-04 18:38:21 UTC ]
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Walker Books has acquired two novels by middle-grade author Jennifer Bell in a six-figure, pre-emptive deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-30 16:26:58 UTC ]
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Picador has scooped the "heart-stopping" new novel from Sarah Moss in a six-figure deal following a heated nine-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-08 09:45:13 UTC ]
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Chinese American writer Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is causing waves across the Atlantic with an auction and six-figure deal for two books with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, as buzz around a UK deal begins. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-24 01:13:28 UTC ]
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Michael Joseph has bought two books from thriller writer Claire Douglas in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big deals signed for study of a 19th-century family of killers, Hell’s Half-Acre, and Murder Isn’t Easy, a mortician’s take on Agatha Christie’s forensics The spectre of true crime was stalking the aisles at this year’s London book fair, with publishers snapping up investigations into past evils... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Puffin, a division of Penguin Random House (PRH) Children’s, has acquired the debut fiction trilogy by illustrator Jamie Littler in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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