Michael Joseph signs two from Straub

Emma Straub is moving from Picador to Penguin Random House’s Michael Joseph for her next two novels. Editorial director Jessica Leeke bought UK and Commonwealth rights to the two novels from Cathryn Summerhayes at WME on behalf of Claudia Ballard. Leeke said: “I have long been a fan of Emma’s fiction which serves as the best kind of entertainment: warm yet wry, witty yet big-hearted, whip-smart for today’s reader. Above all things she makes us laugh, properly laugh, from the belly and the heart.” Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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