McKenzie signing for 4th Estate

Fourth Estate has signed a satirical novel by Elizabeth McKenzie for publication in January 2016. Commissioning editor Anna Kelly signed UK and Commonwealth rights to The Portable Veblen in a deal with Anthony Goff at David Higham Associates, on behalf of Emily Forland at Brandt & Hochman. Penguin Press will publish in the US. The book is set in California, and features dysfunctional families, an unexpected marriage proposal, a corrupt pharmaceuticals company, an intelligent squirrel and the collected works of sociologist Thorstein Veblen. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Conford leaves Penguin to take up publisher role at Profile

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Bloomsbury snaps up 'essential' Anne Frank collection

Bloomsbury Continuum will publish Anne Frank: The Collected Works next May, in the year that she would have celebrated her 90th birthday. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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At BookExpo, Penguin and Goodreads Chart the Blaze of Celeste Ng’s ‘Little Fires Everywhere’

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Book Deals: Week of February 5, 2018

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