No Exit prepares for new Starr thriller

No Exit Press has acquired the latest thriller by Jason Starr, his 10th crime novel and his first for six years. Managing director Ion Mills bought UK and Commonwealth rights excluding Canada direct from the author. Set in the suburbs of New York City, Savage Lane is said to be a thriller that blurs the line between love and obsession, with Mills calling Starr “one of the original masters of the dark domestic thriller..in the line that stretches from Patricia Highsmith, right through to Gillian Flynn." Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac signs Faber Academy graduate's thriller

Pan Macmillan has bought two novels by debut author and Faber Academy graduate Trisha Sakhlecha, the first of which is a dark domestic psychological thriller about a disintegrating marriage.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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10 Creepy Psychological Thrillers

Jane Robins, author of the engrossing and creepy novel, 'White Bodies,' picks 10 of her favorite psychological thrillers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Century pre-empts psychological thriller Trust In Me

Century has pre-empted a psychological thriller that explores what happens when you are responsible for your closest friend’s worst nightmare, by losing her four-year-old child on your watch. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking prepares for 'huge' John le Carré campaign

Viking is preparing for a "huge" campaign around the publication of John le Carré's new book, A Legacy of Spies, dubbed "the literary event of the autumn".  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quarto's Jacqui Small prepares to step down

Jacqui Small, group publisher of the eponymous Quarto imprint, is preparing to step down from her full-time role at the end of the year, which will also see the closure of the list after nearly 20 years. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rights Watch: Rio’s Biennial Book Fair Prepares Its Agents & Business Center

The year so far shows 'modest growth' in Brazil's beleaguered market, says Marcos da Veiga Pereira ahead of Rio's book biennial and rights trading program. The post Rights Watch: Rio’s Biennial Book Fair Prepares Its Agents & Business Center appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alex Field, V-P and Publisher, to Exit WaterBrook and Multnomah

Tina Constable, senior v-p and publisher of Christian Publishing within the Crown Publishing Group, announced that Field will leave the company in September. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookouture signs three more thrillers by Gibney

Digital publisher Bookouture has signed three more crime thrillers from Patricia Gibney whose debut The Missing Ones has sold almost half a million copies since its release in March this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New legal thriller from John Grisham to explore student debt

Hodder & Stoughton is publishing a new "highly topical" legal thriller from John Grisham this October, The Rooster Bar, inspired by the student debt crisis. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac signs Jones' debut domestic thriller

Pan Macmillan has signed up newspaper and magazine journalist Sandie Jones’ debut, a “dark domestic” psychological thriller called The Other Woman. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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No Exit signs second Gangster novel from Goldberg

Oldcastle Books imprint No Exit Press has signed Gangster Nation, the "brilliant" new novel from Tod Goldberg. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two more thrillers from Girlfriend author to Pan Mac

Pan Macmillan has bought two more books from psychological thriller writer, TV producer and script editor Michelle Frances. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HQ signs 'addictive' Hounslow-based thriller debut

HarperCollins imprint HQ has acquired world English language rights to two books by IT officer and screenwriter, Khurrum Rahman. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Corvus bags 'compulsive' thriller in 'fiercely fought' auction

Atlantic imprint Corvus has signed a "completely compulsive" psychological thriller by Jennifer Hillier in a "hotly contested and fiercely fought auction". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Self-published archaeological thriller takes £20,000 Amazon award

The Relic Hunters by David Leadbeater is inaugural winner of online retailer’s DIY publishing prizeThe writer David Leadbeater has struck gold with his self-published archaeological thriller, The Relic Hunters, scooping up the first Amazon Kindle Storyteller award.Leadbeater pronounced it “a... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frankenstein-inspired YA thriller to Scholastic

Scholastic UK has signed a "tense" YA psychological thriller inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and titled Shell. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alan Moore Is Preparing a Six-Part Finale for Extraordinary Gentlemen

“The Tempest,” coming out next June, is the concluding part of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic book series by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2017-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two more Cummins thrillers to Pan Mac

Pan Macmillan has bought two more books from thriller writer Fiona Cummins, whose debut Rattle published in hardback earlier this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Intensely dark' debut thriller Him to Orion

Orion Fiction has acquired two novels by debut crime author Clare Empson, the first of which is an "intensely dark" thriller called Him. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lisa Jewell | 'I always wanted to write psychological thrillers'

Nearly 20 years after her début bestseller Ralph’s Party, Lisa Jewell reflects on her long career and her recent move into psychological thrillers. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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