S&S buys four Graham Swift backlist titles

Scribner UK has acquired the rights to four backlist titles from Booker-prize winner Graham Swift. The recently revived Simon & Schuster imprint has bought the books from Picador and PRH’s Hamish Hamilton and will publish them later this year. This follows the success of Mothering Sunday, published by Scribner last March. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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