Penned in the Margins buys Anaxagorou collection

Indie Penned in the Margins has acquired what it is calling the "breakthrough" collection from Hackney-based poet Anthony Anaxagorou, After the Formalities. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Usborne buys 'dark and twisting' fairy tale

Usborne has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to The Peculiar Peggs of Riding Woods, a dark fairy tale by TV production coordinator Samuel J Halpin. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Morpurgo to pen novelisation of The Snowman

Penguin Random House Children’s will this autumn release a middle-grade novelisation of Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman, written by Michael Morpurgo. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple Buys Into Magazine Media with Texture Acquisition

What's next for the "Netflix of magazines?" The post Apple Buys Into Magazine Media with Texture Acquisition appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2018-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple Is Buying Texture, the So-Called 'Netflix for Magazines,' in Subscription Push

Apple is acquiring Texture, a digital magazine servicedubbed by media industry observers as "Netflix for magazines"that lets users subscribe to more than 200 titles for $9.99 a month.Texture, offered via the app stores of Apple, Google and Amazon.com Inc., bolsters Apple's efforts in online... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2018-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poet Savannah Brown pens YA thriller

Penguin Random House Children’s has acquired a YA thriller from debut writer and poet Savannah Brown. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Konnie Huq to pen series for Piccadilly Press

TV presenter Konnie Huq has signed a multiple book deal with Piccadilly Press, a division of Bonnier Zaffre. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins buys full audio rights for nine Philippa Gregory backlist books

HarperCollins has closed a deal with historical novelist Philippa Gregory for full audio rights for nine of her backlist titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac buys three more from Cogman

Pan Macmillan has bought a further three novels in Genevieve Cogman’s Invisible Library series. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zephyr buys Tania Unsworth mermaid novel

Fiona Kennedy, publisher at Head of Zeus’s children’s imprint Zephyr, has bought the new novel by Tania Unsworth, titled The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was A Mermaid. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC Buys AMACOM Books

HarperCollins has acquired the imprint, a division of the American Management Association International, which has a backlist of approximately 600 business and professional titles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blackie pens modern myths and fairytales

September Publishing has signed mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie’s fictional collection of literary reworkings of myth and fairy tales. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Spicer pens pet memoir for Ebury

Freelance lifestyle journalist Kate Spicer is to write  "a modern take on a pet memoir", about her rescue dog Wolfy, for Ebury Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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4th Estate buys Temelkuran's 'urgent defence of democracy'

HarperCollins imprint 4th Estate will publish a book about the "new Ice Age of politics" by one of Turkey’s best-known novelists and political commentators, Ece Temelkuran. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador publishes Tempest's 'deeply moving' third collection

Picador will publish the "unashamedly personal and intimate" third poetry collection by writer and performer Kate Tempest. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Joseph to release 'Best of Nicci French' collection

Michael Joseph is this year releasing a “Best of Nicci French” collection to mark the 21st anniversary of books from Nicci French, a.k.a. the husband and wife crime writing team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Collins buys 'thrilling' Cambridge spy tale

William Collins will publish the first book by Cambridge espionage historian Svetlana Lokhova revealing the "greatest pre-war triumph of Stalin’s secret services". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Melvin Burgess pens new YA novel

Melvin Burgess is set to release a YA novel about a girl who discovers she has the powers of a witch this August. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bryant pens true story of 'heroic group' of gay wartime MPs

Bloomsbury has signed a work of non-fiction by historian and MP Chris Bryant about a heroic group of gay and bisexual MPs. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Long Soldier, Zhang, Le Guin Win At 2018 PEN Literary Awards

PEN's revamped awards ceremony, replete with jazz combo and an Oscars-style "In Memoriam" video, was held at New York University on February 20. Layli Long Soldier, Jenny Zhang, and the late Ursula K. Le Guin were among the winners. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic UK buys two school book suppliers

The UK arm of Scholastic has bought school books suppliers MBE Books and Laburnum House for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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