Pushkin Vertigo has acquired a new crime trilogy from Swedish debut author Martin Holmén. The publisher acquired world English rights, excluding Australia New Zealand, from Bonnier Rights. The “gritty” trilogy is set in poverty-stricken and divided 1930s Stockholm, and follows the adventures of Harry Kvist, a bi-sexual former boxer and debt collector, as he moves through the city’s underworld. The first book in the series is called Clinch. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Doubleday has acquired Jamie O'Connell's "stunning" debut Diving for Pearls, featuring intertwining stories "combining dark wit and devastating emotional truth". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-07 01:11:51 UTC ]
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While science fiction is often preoccupied with the threat of artificial intelligence successfully imitating human intelligence, researchers say a bigger danger right now is people using the technology to imitate one another. A recent survey from the University College of London ranked deepfakes... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-08-05 21:14:18 UTC ]
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Independent publisher Canelo is launching a new crime fiction imprint, Canelo Crime, this September, and has promoted Louise Cullen as publishing director to oversee the list. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-05 21:08:39 UTC ]
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Stephen King is publishing a new crime novel, Later, with Titan Books imprint Hard Case Crime in March 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-04 01:17:41 UTC ]
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"Meet the Snapchat Generation," Snap Inc.'s first-ever global business-to-business marketing campaign, is going live Monday across print, broadcast and digital media channels in the U.S., Canada and Australia. The campaign will be extended to the U.K. oh Aug. 17 and to the rest of Europe, as... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-08-03 04:00:52 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus will publish the first title in a Pompeii-set trilogy by Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den, in May 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-30 23:12:48 UTC ]
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La La has it all together. But when her career-thief father needs her help, she might just leave her stable life behind. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-29 08:37:58 UTC ]
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Capital Crime is launching a monthly subscription service, providing two curated paperbacks alongside exclusive author content and access to community activities. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-28 02:25:45 UTC ]
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Granta is to publish The Lobster's Shell by Danish writer Caroline Albertine Minor, her first work to have an English-language translation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-23 21:27:50 UTC ]
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Adrian McKinty has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Prize for The Chain (Orion), part of a “life changing” turnaround after he gave up writing and became an Uber driver to make ends meet. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-22 21:01:02 UTC ]
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HarperCollins' digital-first imprint One More Chapter has netted three titles in a Cornwall-set cosy crime series by author Fiona Leitch. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-14 04:12:51 UTC ]
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James Corden to produce film and TV series based on Australia’s Real Pigeons children’s booksThe humble pigeon may be an unlikely breed of star but an author-illustrator duo from Melbourne have been turning the birds into a crime-fighting troupe of superheroes – and they’re about to take flight... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-07-07 21:55:36 UTC ]
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With bookshops still closed in parts of the UK, sales have surpassed last year’s numbers, with 3.8m print books sold in the last weekBritain’s readers have been emerging from lockdown to restock their bookshelves, with book sales – and particularly crime novels – booming in the three weeks since... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-07-07 16:17:09 UTC ]
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Yale University Press will publish the English translation of Bernard-Henri Lévy’s The Virus in the Age of Madness. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-02 02:19:04 UTC ]
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Victoria Oundjian, commissioning editor at Orion Fiction, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to a romantic debut, Uncoupling by Lorraine Brown. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-29 13:28:09 UTC ]
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Pushkin Press imprint One is to publish a work of food writing, social criticism and "bold thinking" by Rebecca May Johnson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-23 05:36:59 UTC ]
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Book market developments in May point to growth in China's already powerful 'online literature' sector, led by the 'Ran Freely' trilogy by Wu Zhe. The post China Bestsellers May: ‘Online Literature’ Powers a Trilogy appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-06-22 14:38:30 UTC ]
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Val McDermid has revealed her 2020 “New Blood” list of hotly tipped crime-writing talent, featuring Deepa Anappara and Elizabeth Kay. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-18 03:04:34 UTC ]
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Bluebird has snapped up Brown Girl Like Me, an “agenda-setting” debut by award-winning spoken word artist and teacher Jaspreet Kaur. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-15 01:15:39 UTC ]
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PHILOSOPHER GARY COX’S How to Be Good: or How to Be Moral and Virtuous in a Wicked World was recently released by Bloomsbury Academic. In the book, Cox explores the concept of goodness, how it is achievable, and how to decide what the right thing to do is. Moral philosophy is notoriously complex... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-06-06 12:30:45 UTC ]
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