Sphere buys Little Coffee Shop sequel

Sphere has acquired two more novels from Deborah Rodriguez, including a sequel to her debut, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul. Catherine Burke, publisher at Sphere fiction, bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Australia New Zealand and Canada, to the novels from Lizzy Kremer of David Higham Associates, working on behalf of Marly Rusoff. Rights for Australia New Zealand were acquired by Beverley Cousins, fiction publisher at Penguin Random House Australia. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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