Support from authors including Marian Keyes sees Emma Hannigan’s Letters to My Daughters become a bestseller, after she announces ‘all avenues have been exhausted’ in her treatmentEmma Hannigan’s Letters to My Daughters has shot to the top of book charts in Ireland, after the author announced that her cancer was now terminal, and her fellow writers launched a campaign to make her final novel a No 1 bestseller.On Wednesday, official book sales monitor Nielsen said that Hannigan’s novel had sold 4,065 copies in the last week, making it Ireland’s bestselling title by some margin, ahead of the second-placed The Year That Changed Everything, by Cathy Kelly, which sold 1,893 copies. Irish writers including Kelly and Patricia Scanlan, who have been part of the campaign to get the novel to the top of the charts, reacted with delight.Omg that’s fantastic news. I was waiting till tomorrow to harass Maria @DubrayBooks for numbers :) and you ladies with books out and promoting @MsEmmaHannigan are incredible. Xxx Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 26/10/2011 - 08:29 Headline has acquired two novels by Mark Mills, previously published by HarperCollins, and author of bestselling title The Savage Garden. Publishing director for fiction Imogen Taylor bought world rights excluding North... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 30/06/2011 - 15:01 Bloomsbury has acquired three YA books by Irish author, Sarah Crossan. Senior commissioning editor Ele Fountain acquired the trio of titles through Julia Churchill at Greenhouse, with the first title, Breathe, to be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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