PRH Children’s pre-empts world rights in Zurcher debut

Penguin Random House Children’s has pre-empted the world rights to Twelve Nights, the debut children’s book by Andrew Zurcher, director of studies in English at Queen’s College Cambridge. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tinder Press pre-empts Mahfouz's 'personal and political' look at British Empire

Tinder has acquired These Bodies of Water: Navigating Britain's Imprint on the Middle East by Sabrina Mahfouz, a "powerful meditation" on the influence of the British Empire. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-07 13:05:17 UTC ]
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Sam Thompson goes to Little Island for children's debut

Little Island Books will publish the debut children’s book of Booker-longlisted novelist Sam Thompson in 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-24 12:43:48 UTC ]
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Windmill pre-empts naturalist's 'powerful' memoir in 24 hours

Windmill has signed Sally Huband's non-fiction debut, the story of a woman who combs Shetland beaches to find her place, in a 24-hour pre-empt. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-21 02:26:55 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Children's scoops Clare Weze's 'brilliant' debut

Bloomsbury Children's Books is to publish middle-grade adventure Alfie Miller, Lightning Catcher by debut author Clare Weze. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-19 13:19:12 UTC ]
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Sceptre pre-empts musician Mikel Jollett's memoir

Sceptre has pre-empted Hollywood Park by musician and writer Mikel Jollett, frontman of indie band The Airborne Toxic Event. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-16 14:59:29 UTC ]
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Fourth Estate signs PRH editor's 'dazzling' debut for six figures

Fourth Estate has won a five-publisher auction for the “dazzling” debut novel from PRH assistant editor Kasim Ali, in a six-figure two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-06 21:45:48 UTC ]
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Scribner pre-empts Mona Awad duo

Scribner has pre-empted two new novels by Mona Awad, author of Bunny (Head of Zeus). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-02 16:15:38 UTC ]
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Film pre-empt for new Ishiguro novel

Film company 3000 Pictures has closed a pre-emptive deal for Kazuo Ishiguro's upcoming novel, Klara and the Sun, due to be published by Faber in spring next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-29 07:48:38 UTC ]
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Transworld pre-empts former footballer Brazil's new memoir

Transworld has pre-empted a new autobiography by Alan Brazil, former footballer and broadcaster. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-26 17:38:15 UTC ]
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Borough Press pre-empts Millner epic

The Borough Press has pre-empted “multigenerational epic” One Blood from author—and Simon & Schuster US editor—Denene Millner, in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-24 10:16:26 UTC ]
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Quercus pre-empts Davy's 'explosive' exploration of oppression

Quercus has pre-empted We, The Oppressors by Dr J Davy, a book about how "the infrastructures we live inside of have always been inadequate and unequal, designed to support and maintain the status of those in power at the expense of those without it". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-23 14:48:31 UTC ]
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Viking pre-empts Sridhar on politics of pandemics

Viking has pre-empted an “important and illuminating” book on the politics of pandemics by Professor Devi Sridhar. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-23 08:13:55 UTC ]
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Auctions and pre-empts hotting up after lockdown, agents say

Publishers are clamouring to land debuts and big-name authors via auctions and high pre-empt bids as they look for sure-fire hits following months of disruption, agents say. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-14 07:30:14 UTC ]
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Zephyr pre-empts ancient Rome adventures from Annelise Gray

Zephyr, Head of Zeus' children's imprint, will publish two middle-grade children's books set in Ancient Rome from Annelise Gray. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-14 01:26:12 UTC ]
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Yellow Kite pre-empts journo's life hacks learned from the experts

Yellow Kite has pre-empted journalist Erin Zammett Ruddy's The Little Book of Life Skills, billed as "an expert guide to getting your life in order". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-13 11:44:31 UTC ]
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Viking pre-empts Wang's 'remarkable' memoir of undocumented childhood

Viking has pre-empted a “remarkable” memoir by lawyer Qian Julie Wang about her childhood spent in severe poverty as an undocumented Chinese immigrant in Brooklyn. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-07 18:57:02 UTC ]
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Children’s Institute 2020: Indies Introduce Debut Authors

Ten authors of books chosen by booksellers as their favorite summer/fall middle grade and YA debuts read from their works in a lunchtime panel. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Penguin Business pre-empts Permission to Speak by Hollywood speech coach

Penguin Business has pre-empted Permission to Speak by Samara Bay, a dialect and speech coach in Hollywood. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-02 08:04:22 UTC ]
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Arrow bags novel from PRH Children's editor Sara Jafari

Arrow has bagged a novel about a young British Iranian woman living in London and navigating love, family and friendship from PRH Children's editor Sara Jafari, in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-24 19:50:12 UTC ]
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