Model and activist signs six-figure contract to publish Transitional, ‘a manifesto for how I see society changing for the better, bringing us all closer’The first book by Munroe Bergdorf, a manifesto on gender by the black transgender activist and model, has been bought for a six-figure sum after a bidding war between 11 publishers.Bergdorf’s Transitional will be published by Bloomsbury in 2021. Exploring six different facets of human experience – adolescence, sexuality, gender, relationships, identity and race – the book will draw on Bergdorf’s own experiences, including growing up in a mixed-race family, going to an all-boys school and starting her transition at the age of 24. In it, she will argue that transition is an experience every person faces in every phase in life, “and that only by recognising this can we understand times of change”. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg sells her story, Ian McEwan unveils a Brexit novella, Bloomsbury buys the sophomore novel by the author of 'Dr. Strange & Mr. Norrell,' and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury and Vintage have scooped double nominations on the 12-strong longlist for this year's Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-12 01:20:26 UTC ]
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Donald Trump’s Alabama psychodrama is still going on. Previous scenes featured the president of the United States erroneously warning that the state was in the path of a deadly hurricane; doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down on his error; defacing an official weather map with a Sharpie to... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-09-10 12:07:25 UTC ]
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Elise Burns is leaving Bloomsbury to join Bonnier Books UK as its new trade sales and export director. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-02 22:43:52 UTC ]
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Interviews Carolyne Larrington Audible’s new fiction podcast, Hag, launching August 29, features eight reimaginings of traditional British folktales by eight contemporary female writers, with folktales chosen from across the UK. The collection will be... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2019-08-30 14:21:50 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury imprint Green Tree will publish a “heartfelt” book about female incontinence by writer Luce Brett entitled PMSL: Or How I Literally Pissed Myself Laughing and Survived the Last Taboo to Tell the Tale. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-29 01:52:50 UTC ]
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The Royal Society Science Book Prize shortlist for 2019 has been revealed with nominations for indies Icon, Bloomsbury and Atlantic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-27 01:50:28 UTC ]
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Former Bloomsbury publisher Richard Atkinson is joining Penguin Press as publishing director in September. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-19 17:59:21 UTC ]
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After a dozen women accused the pundit of sexual harassment at the height of the Me Too movement, Halperin has begun tiptoeing his way back into public life. Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2019-08-18 22:02:40 UTC ]
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Little, Brown imprint Sphere has appointed Viking’s Rosanna Forte and Callum Kenny from Bloomsbury as editors working across the fiction list. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-14 16:12:18 UTC ]
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Cecil Woolf was indeed generous and sociable. Two years ago I visited his home and publishing headquarters off Mornington Crescent in north London, to buy some Bloomsbury Heritage monographs while researching my book Virginia Woolf at Home, on the houses she knew in London, Cornwall and Sussex.I... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-08-11 16:09:37 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has won a first-hand account of postpartum psychosis by Curtis Brown associate agent Catherine Cho, in a six-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-07 09:49:35 UTC ]
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Sceptre has triumphed in an eight-way bidding war to win the highly anticipated Fleabag: Scriptures, the book of the BBC comedy series by its creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, The Bookseller can reveal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-06 15:22:55 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has won a 15-publisher bidding war for a book on grief by podcaster Cariad Lloyd, in “one of the fiercest auctions” managed by agent Nelle Andrew of PFD, for a "significant" six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-04 20:54:25 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has won an auction for academic Samantha Walton’s exploration of the "long cultural legacy of the ‘nature cure’". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-30 23:59:19 UTC ]
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Rikin Parekh has signed his first author-illustrator deal with Hachette Children’s Group (HCG). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-29 06:33:32 UTC ]
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Scholastic’s Strawberrie Donnelly has joined Bloomsbury Children’s Books in the newly created role of art director. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-29 03:23:16 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has scooped two nominations on the Polari 2019 shortlists with titles from indies Faber, Granta and Orenda also up for awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-29 01:46:32 UTC ]
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Outspoken soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe will offer her takes on sports and current events in a new book for the Penguin Press. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-07-25 19:10:34 UTC ]
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The U.S. Women’s National Team co-captain reportedly signed with Penguin Press for a book about her life AND with Razorbill for a book for young people. Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2019-07-25 17:42:59 UTC ]
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