Johnson short stories to Cape

Jonathan Cape has acquired a book of short stories by Daisy Johnson at auction. Editorial director Alex Bowler signed UK and Commonwealth rights to two books by Johnson from Jack Ramm at Eve White Literary Agency. Johnson is a 24-year-old prizewinning graduate of Oxford University’s Fiction MsT. The first book – FEN, a collection of linked short stories set in the fens of East Anglia – will be published early 2016 with the second, an as yet untitled novel, due in 2017. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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