HQ scoops Sheffield-set debut novel from journalist Rawlins

HQ has scooped The Steel Girls, a debut novel from journalist and university lecturer Michelle Rawlins, in a three-book deal. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-01 19:21:33 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury scoops 'wise' memoir from George

Bloomsbury will publish a "joyful" memoir, Nothing Ordinary: A Still Life, by debut author Josie George. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Allen Lane scoops Gladwell's latest book

Allen Lane will publish Malcolm Gladwell’s first book for six years, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know in September.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Myriad acquires Chiew's debut short story collection

Myriad has acquired world rights to Elaine Chiew's debut collection of short stories, The Heartsick Diaspora. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton signs McCreesh's debut

Hodder & Stoughton has acquired Cracked, the debut crime novel by Curtis Brown Creative course graduate Louise McCreesh. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Debut authors dominate Wellcome Book Prize longlist

The longlist has been revealed for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize, with six debuts in line for the contest’s 10th anniversary award as memoirs dominate the non-fiction titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blink scoops Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse book

Blink has signed Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse as the Bonnier Books UK imprint acquires rights to the comedy duo's new book. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HQ acquires three crime novels from digital author O'Sullivan

Digital author Darren O'Sullivan will join the HQ Fiction list after the HarperCollins imprint acquired three of his crime novels. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo Set for Three Days in May

This year, the show will open on Wednesday at noon and run until 5 p.m. On Thursday, the floor will be open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., and the show will close on Friday with a 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. schedule. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fairfax and Westchester are set for Round 2 in their regular-season rivalry

Round 2 of the Fairfax-Westchester basketball rivalry is set for Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Faifax, with the No. 1 seed in the City Section Open Division playoffs on the line. Fairfax (22-1) held on for a 50-48 victory over Westchester (20-2) on Friday night. On Wednesday, each team tuned up.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pine's essay collection scoops An Post Irish Book of the Year

Academic Emilie Pine’s “vivid and powerful” Notes to Self (Hamish Hamilton) has won the An Post Irish Book of the Year 2018 following a public vote. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate signs Alagiah's 'exhilarating' debut novel

Canongate has acquired the debut novel by BBC News newsreader George Alagiah, The Burning Land. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown scoops 'moving' Khmer Rouge tale

Little, Brown non-fiction imprint Robinson has bought a “moving and insightful” account of a daughter’s search for her missing father in the ‘Killing Fields’ of Cambodia.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kaikini's Mumbai stories scoop $25k DSC Prize

Indian writer Jayant Kaikini, along with translator Tejaswini Niranjana, has won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018 worth $25,000 (£19,200) for the Mumbai-set short story collection No Presents Please (Harper Perennial). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mitchell Beazley scoops ‘unique’ how-to guide for parents of fussy eaters

Mitchell Beazley, part of the Octopus Publishing Group, has acquired Get Your Kids to Eat Anything by Emily Leary.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bodley Head scoops Kendi's antiracism guide

Bodley Head will publish a “game-changing” exploration of tackling racism, How To Be an Antiracist, by academic and writer Ibram X Kendi in August 2019. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chowdhury scoops Harvill Secker BAME crime competition

Ajay Chowdhury has won Harvill Secker and Bloody Scotland's inaugural competition with Arvon to find a new crime writer from a BAME background for his detective-turned-waiter murder mystery. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Denpa Books Debuts with Eclectic Indie Manga List

Denpa Books, a new indie manga publisher specializing in an eclectic list of titles for grown-up readers, debuted at AnimeNYC in late 2018, and has announced several new titles coming in 2019. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A debut novel in the mould of German Romanticism

In “Wanderer”, a tale of music and men, Sarah Léon pays lyrical tribute to Goethe, Heine and Schubert Continue reading at The Economist

[ The Economist | 2019-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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S&S UK snaps up Woozeer's debut

Simon & Schuster have pre-empted Not Quite White, the debut by writer and musician Laila Woozeer. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Pool freezes commissions amid journalists' pay row

Lifestyle website The Pool has reportedly frozen commissions and regular columns while it struggles to pay a backlog owed to journalists. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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