Transworld signs former Olympian Greg Whyte

Transworld has acquired a “ground-breaking” book by formal Olympian, Professor Greg Whyte, who has helped David Walliams, Davina McCall, Eddie Izzard and John Bishop on charity challenges. Editorial director Giles Elliott acquired world rights to Achieve the Impossible from James Harper at The Sports Sphere. Whyte is known for the challenges he has organised for Comic Relief and Sport Relief, which have raised £33million for charity, and for which he was made an OBE in 2014. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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U Chicago Press Signs Two New Dsitribution Clients

The University of Chicago Press has signed two new distribution clients: the American Alliance of Museums Press and the Missouri History Museum. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Caffeine Nights signs first foreign rights deal

Caffeine Nights Publishing has signed its first foreign rights deal, selling Korean translation... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC signs Ollie Locke

HarperCollins has signed up a book from "Made in Chelsea" star Ollie Locke. Anna... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion signs debut by Irish journalist English

Orion has acquired the first two novels from Irish journalist Rachael English. Managing director... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate signs up tale of innocent ‘serial killer’

Canongate has signed up a Swedish true crime book telling the tale of a man wrongly imprisoned... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber's Thaxton makes first signings

Faber Children's publisher Leah Thaxton has signed her first titles for the imprint.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Distribution: Midpoint Signs Bunker Hill

Midpoint Trade Books has signed a distribution deal with Bunker Hill Publishing, a New Hampshire-based independent publisher. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blofeld signs with Blue Door

Veteran cricket commentator Henry Blofeld will release an autobiography next year after a deal... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wood signs more Donald for Sphere

Ed Wood, senior editor at Sphere, has signed three more books by Outlaw author Angus Donald, in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mitchell Beazley signs Cowell food book

Mitchell Beazley is joining forces with Simon Cowell for a book tying in to his production... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sophie McKenzie signs six-figure deal with S&S

Sophie McKenzie has signed world rights for two teen novels with Simon & Schuster in a six-... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury signs novel about Tourette's

Bloomsbury has acquired an "uproariously funny" novel about a teenage boy with Tourette... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin signs Alexa Chung

Penguin has announced a deal for a first book by British model and TV presenter, Alexa Chung. A... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Easypress Technologies Signs HarperCollins UK to Its Cloud Platform

Easypress Technologies, a book production software developer, is launching Book Publishing in the Cloud, a new technology platform it claims can cut the costs and time required to produce print and digital titles by as much as 50%. The new service is said to allow publishers to produce even more... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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