Picador scoops Patrick Radden Keefe's Sackler history

Picador has scooped a history of the Sackler dynasty from Say Nothing (William Collins) author Patrick Radden Keefe. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-16 11:50:12 UTC ]
News tagged with: #picador

Other Publishing stories related to: 'Picador scoops Patrick Radden Keefe's Sackler history'

Picador swoops for third book from The Secret Barrister

Picador has swooped for the third book from The Secret Barrister, which charts their transformation from "hang ‘em and flog ‘em, austerity-supporting twenty-something to campaigning, bestselling, reforming author". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-16 11:48:50 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #secret barrister #picador

Mudlark nets 'atmospheric' lie detector history by Katwala

Mudlark has snapped up a "vibrant and atmospheric" book on the history of the lie detector by WIRED journalist Amit Katwala. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-16 00:31:37 UTC ]
More news stories like this |

Legend Press scoops 'tense and twisty' thriller from Witten

Legend Press has scooped a "brilliantly tense and twisty thriller" by Matt Witten, which has also been optioned for film, with Leonardo DiCaprio as producer. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-15 11:01:11 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #twisty thriller #legend press

Review: A debut novel strives to capture the paradoxes of Korean history

Juhea Kim's "Beasts of a Little Land" captures the dualities of Korean history but ties up symbols too tightly in the service of grand ambitions. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-12-14 15:00:20 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #debut novel

S&S scoops 'eye-opening' book on Tory Britain by Earle

Simon & Schuster UK has acquired Tory Nation: How One Party Conquered the UK by Samuel Earle. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-14 04:53:22 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #ss scoops

Transworld scoops 'extraordinary' story of British soldier Gutteridge

Transworld has scooped an "extraordinary and deeply moving" story of a British soldier who suffered life-changing injuries in Afghanistan. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-08 23:32:47 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #transworld scoops #deeply moving

Angry Robot scoops 'fast and fun' sci-fi by Dundas

Angry Robot Books has scooped a "fierce, fast and fun" science fiction book by Ever Dundas. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-08 04:24:23 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #science fiction

Picador stops distribution of Sebold's Lucky after man jailed for her rape exonerated

Picador has stopped distribution of Alice Sebold's memoir Lucky as the author apologised to the man who was exonerated of her rape last week, 40 years after his conviction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-30 20:34:54 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #alice sebold #picador

Daynes scoops SLA Information Book Award for 'gentle' book on why things die

Katie Daynes' Why Do Things Die? (Usborne), illustrated by Christine Pym, has been announced as the overall winner of the School Library Association (SLA) Information Book Award for its “gentle, non-judgemental” tone on "a rare topic" for young readers. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 10:32:58 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #young readers #library association #book award

Mullins joins Yale's Little Histories series with art edition

Yale University Press is gearing up to publish A Little History of Art by Charlotte Mullins, an "exciting" addition to the press' Little Histories series. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 07:18:20 UTC ]
More news stories like this |

Bodley Head pre-empts 'landmark' account of human history by Galor

The Bodley Head has pre-empted a "landmark" account of human history by Oded Galor. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-18 09:20:49 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #human history #bodley head

Agard makes history with BookTrust win

The prolific and esteemed wordsmith John Agard has become the first poet to win BookTrust’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-11 23:58:56 UTC ]
More news stories like this |

Hachette Children's scoops Fox's 'richly told' debut

Hachette Children’s Group has acquired The Sky Over Rebecca, a "richly told" middle-grade tale of two worlds colliding from debut author and winner of the Bath Children’s Novel Award 2019, Matthew Fox. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-10 13:38:51 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #hachette children #bath children #debut author #hachette

HarperCollins scoops four new novels from Hunter

HarperCollins has scooped four new novels from Cara Hunter, including two books in the DI Adam Fawley series, plus two standalone novels. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-10 10:09:02 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #standalone novels #harpercollins scoops #cara hunter #harpercollins

Wildfire lands 'humorous deep-dive' into royal deaths throughout history by Edge

Wildfire has landed a "humorous deep-dive" into the deaths of the Kings and Queens of England and Scotland by medical historian and TikTok star Suzie Edge. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-09 16:32:23 UTC ]
More news stories like this |

Oneworld scoops Juhea Kim's 'elegant and dreamy' debut novel

Oneworld has acquired Beasts of a Little Land, an historic story of love and war hailed as a "magnificent achievement", by debut novelist Juhea Kim. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-08 13:15:23 UTC ]
More news stories like this |

A Graphic Novel About 100 Years of Matrilineal Family History, From South China to Singapore

To hear Weng Pixin tell it, Let’s Not Talk Anymore started out as a kind of “fuck you” move after a particularly bad fight with her mom but—as these things tend to go—it gradually transformed into a project to locate herself within the moth-eaten story of her matrilineal line. Moving back and... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2021-11-04 11:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #singapore appeared #moving back #electric literature #graphic novel

Ilex snaps up Bishopsgate archivists' history of queer love letters

Ilex Press has signed a deal for The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship, collected by Bishopsgate Institute archivists Rachel Smith and Barbara Vesey. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-29 21:04:12 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #ilex press

Lightning Books scoops debut novel from Scottish playwright Boyle

Lightning Books has scooped the debut novel by award-winning Scottish playwright and rising screen star Kenny Boyle. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-28 09:09:50 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #lightning books #debut novel