Sphere has bought two novels by actress and television presenter Denise Welch. In her first deal for the list, deputy publisher for Sphere fiction Maddie West acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in two books from Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown. Welch has starred in programmes including "Coronation Street" and "Waterloo Road", and was also a regular panellist on "Loose Women". The first, If They Could See Me Now, is a story of one woman’s empowerment, of learning to trust yourself and the lessons you’ve learned from life. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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HarperCollins has acquired Everyone Versus Racism—a book by Patrick Hutchinson, who was photographed carrying an injured white man during London's Black Lives Matter protests. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-04 17:18:36 UTC ]
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Doubleday has acquired The Purpose of Power: How to Build Movements for the 21st Century by Alicia Garza, the principal at the Black Futures Lab and the Black to the Future Action Fund, and co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-04 09:57:50 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury's Green Tree is to publish Liz Fraser's memoir Coming Clean: A True Story of Love, Addiction and Recovery next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-31 11:02:40 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has acquired The Heiress by Molly Greeley, an "LGBTQ+ reimagining" of the life of the Pride and Prejudice character Anne de Bourgh. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-31 10:53:36 UTC ]
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London-based indie Onwe has acquired three titles from debut authors to be published across 2021: Ashaye Brown's Dream Country, Di Lebowitz's The Marks Left on Her and Rab Ferguson's The Landfill Mountains. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-31 08:10:29 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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Scottish indie Sandstone Press will publish novel Phosphate Rocks: A Death in Ten Objects by Fiona Erskine. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Renard Press has made its first acquisition, landing Iain Hood's debut novel This Good Book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-28 22:40:39 UTC ]
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Indie publisher Lume Books will publish the latest psychological thriller from Jane Holland, Someone to Care. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-27 09:26:34 UTC ]
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Granta Books has acquired a second novel from Anuk Arudpragasam titled A Passage North. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-26 19:43:54 UTC ]
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Penguin Business will publish The Business Survival Kit by Byron Cole and Bianca Miller-Cole. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-26 12:02:42 UTC ]
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With most live sports on hold for the past several months, sports media publishers have had to stretch their imaginations to find interesting stories to show and tell. Wave.tv, a digital media company built around working with license holders to repackage archival sports, hopes to invest more in... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-07-22 14:00:38 UTC ]
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Faber is to publish a biography of the blues singer Bessie Smith, by Scotland's national poet laureate Jackie Kay. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-22 13:37:50 UTC ]
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Little, Brown has acquired "an unflinching insider’s account of medicine in the time of coronavirus" from palliative care doctor Dr Rachel Clarke. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-22 10:28:16 UTC ]
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Oneworld will publish Kevin Toolis’ new book, Nine Rules to Conquer Death, on 15th October 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-20 14:22:39 UTC ]
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson has commissioned historian, author and podcaster Greg Jenner to write a book "answering the funniest, most unique and curious questions" he has been asked by members of the public. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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An ongoing pause on large-scale gatherings in the U.S. during the second quarter of 2020, unsurprisingly, also led to a near-total shutdown of M&A activity in the conference and trade show space. At the onset of Q3, however, the Machine Learning Conference—an eight-year-old events series... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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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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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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Rock star Lenny Kravitz has written Let Love Rule, a memoir covering the first 25 years of his life, to be published by Sphere in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-30 18:47:37 UTC ]
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