S&S bags Bennett's debut thriller on New Zealand’s colonial past

Simon & Schuster UK has landed Better the Blood, the "engrossing and exciting" debut thriller by award-winning Māori screenwriter and director Michael Bennett. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-24 11:17:04 UTC ]
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Lana Del Rey's debut poetry collection to S&S

Simon & Schuster is to publish a debut book of poetry by American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-10 12:24:03 UTC ]
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Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel, ‘Antkind,’ is just as loopy and clever as his movies

The 720-page book by the writer of “Being John Malkovich” may be long but it’s never dull. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-09 15:28:19 UTC ]
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Sphere wins Bublitz debut in 'hotly contested' auction

Sphere is publishing debut author Jacqueline Bublitz’s novel Before You Knew My Name, pitched as "The Lovely Bones for a new generation", plus a second book. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-09 08:04:20 UTC ]
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Crime fiction boom as book sales rocket past 2019 levels

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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Norman Lock’s ‘American Follies’ mines America’s flawed past for dazzling fiction

The latest installment in Lock’s American Novels series brings together P.T. Barnum and Susan B. Anthony. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-07 15:01:01 UTC ]
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10 Audiobook Thrillers With Complicated Relationships

If thrillers with complicated relationships are your cup of murder-y tea, here are some audiobook thrillers to keep you in suspense. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2020-07-07 10:32:59 UTC ]
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Hamish Hamilton scoops Lloyd's mythic Trinidad-set debut

Hamish Hamilton has acquired Ayanna Gillian Lloyd's debut The Gatekeepers, and a further novel, at auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-06 23:15:04 UTC ]
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Continue to push debuts despite autumn 'jam', journalists advise PRs

A panel of journalists have advised book publicists to continue to push debut writers, despite the "jammed" autumn brought on by lockdown delays.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-06 20:32:03 UTC ]
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Baggaley acquires Nagamatsu debut for Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury editor-in-chief Paul Baggaley has acquired an "extraordinarily prescient" debut novel by Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-06 10:17:28 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

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Most Anticipated Debuts of the Second Half of 2020

There’s no doubt COVID-19 has forever changed the world as we know it. A small slice of life that had to shift trajectory is the publishing industry. Debut authors are especially struggling as the books they have worked on for countless years are released into a world without in-person book... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2020-06-30 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Film4 options Lynda Clark's debut sci-fi

Film4 has acquired TV and film rights to Lynda Clark's sci-fi novel, Beyond Kidding, published by Fairlight Books.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-29 14:42:54 UTC ]
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Orion snaps up Brown's 'uplifting' romantic debut

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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3BlackDot Announces 2 New Shows at NewFronts Debut

Gaming took center stage at the 2020 Digital Content NewFronts today. 3BlackDot, an entertainment studio that builds content around influencers in the gaming space, gave its first NewFronts presentation, boasting to advertisers about its far reach and various functions. The entertainment studio... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2020-06-26 18:17:46 UTC ]
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HarperCollins wins six-way auction for debut from S&S's Pronovost

HarperCollins has triumphed in a heated six-publisher auction for the debut novel by Nita Prose, the pen name for vice president and editorial director at Simon & Schuster in Canada, Nita Pronovost. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-25 11:27:10 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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Hachette Children's acquires teacher's debut Ghostcloud

Hachette Children's Group will publish Ghostcloud, a middle-grade adventure by debut author Michael Mann.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-24 18:20:27 UTC ]
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Review: A wicked debut novel about a levitation cult occasionally lifts off

Emily Temple's "The Lightness," about a seeker who loses more than she finds, is a beguiling novel after Donna Tartt's heart, if not her plotting. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-06-24 13:45:57 UTC ]
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From police beat to Stuff owner: meet Sinead Boucher, New Zealand's newest media mogul

Boucher may have bought one of the country’s biggest news brands for NZ$1, but she wants journalists to eventually have a stake in the company When Sinead Boucher started out in journalism her editors weren’t too bothered if she filed a story each day. Such was the number of journalists on the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-06-23 20:00:01 UTC ]
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Toon up for both Bloody Scotland Debut award and McIlvanney Prize

This year's Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Book of the year shortlist and McIlvanney Prize longlist have been revealed, with author Francine Toon up for both awards.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-22 13:56:12 UTC ]
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