Sphere has bought a psychological thriller titled Painkiller by Private Eye staff writer N J Fountain. Cath Burke, fiction publisher at Sphere, bought UK and Commonwealth rights to the novel in a deal brokered by Piers Blofeld at Sheil Land Associates. Painkiller tells the story of a once successful woman suffering from chronic neuropathic pain as the result of an accident five years earlier. It is part-based on Fountain’s own experience caring for a close friend who suffers from the condition. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Granta Books has signed a second "electric" novel from A K Blakemore, whose debut The Manningtree Witches won the Desmond Elliott Prize 2021 and is a Waterstones Book of the Month for November. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-01 16:54:33 UTC ]
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UCLan Publishing is launching an illustrated chapter book list for younger readers, kicking off with a two-book deal for debut author Emma Finlayson-Palmer’s Autumn Moonbeam series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-01 05:21:50 UTC ]
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Film and TV rights have been sold for Sam Lloyd’s The Rising Tide (Bantam Press). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-01 00:06:55 UTC ]
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White Rabbit has signed a new memoir by Mark Lanegan, described as a “terrifying account” of Covid-19, which left the songwriter slipping in and out of a coma. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-27 22:09:40 UTC ]
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Chatto is to publish a "major reassessment" of 20th-century philosophy and a call to arms for the modern world from Dr Clare Mac Cumhaill and Dr Rachael Wiseman. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-27 18:51:13 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Children's Books has signed a new four-book deal with picture book creator Emma Chichester Clark. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-26 17:42:17 UTC ]
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Seven Dials has scooped the "explosive" memoir from Lee Sansum, the bodyguard who protected Hollywood royalty and Princess Diana, to be written with Howard Linskey. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-26 06:48:10 UTC ]
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Penguin Michael Joseph has signed a “unique” Holocaust memoir about the unlikely friendship between a young Jewish girl and a stray cat by Mala Kacenberg. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-26 02:08:45 UTC ]
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Square Peg has acquired an "essential" guide to positive, life-affirming and joyful Black fatherhood from Marvyn Harrison, the founder of the international community and podcast Dope Black Dads. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-22 23:13:06 UTC ]
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Headline has scooped First Lie Wins, the debut adult thriller from Ashley Elston, in a 24-hour pre-empt. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-20 07:17:26 UTC ]
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Novelist Amanda Jayatissa ratchets up the tension — and the conversation about social injustices. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-19 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus imprint MacLehose Press has acquired My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women, an anthology of contemporary women's short stories with an introduction by BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-19 02:58:08 UTC ]
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Trio step out from behind pseudonym marketed as ‘Spain’s Elena Ferrante’ to accept €1m prizeA million euro literary prize has lured three Spanish men out of anonymity, to reveal that they are behind ultra-violent Spanish crime thrillers marketed as the work of “Spain’s Elena Ferrante”The men had... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-10-16 22:37:44 UTC ]
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Headline Publishing Group will publish The Girls Bathroom by Sophia Tuxford and Cinzia Baylis-Zullo, who host the podcast of the same name. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-13 21:48:38 UTC ]
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Penguin Michael Joseph has snapped up an “unputdownable superyacht" thriller, A Stranger on Board, by Cameron Ward. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-12 04:58:36 UTC ]
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HQ has landed a book on miscarriage and pregnancy loss by award-winning podcasters Bex Gunn and Laura Buckingham. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-08 20:11:43 UTC ]
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Mountain Leopard Press and Good Chance Theatre are publishing the official companion book to public artwork “The Walk”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-08 10:43:49 UTC ]
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Begin the season with books by Anthony Horowitz, Camilla Trinchieri, David McCloskey and others. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-02 12:00:00 UTC ]
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John Murray senior commissioning editor Becky Walsh has acquired Michelle Gallen's second novel Factory Girls. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-28 04:02:44 UTC ]
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Sphere has pre-empted In Two Minds: Stories of Murder, Justice and Recovery from a Forensic Psychiatrist by Dr Sohom Das. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-22 23:05:16 UTC ]
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