Trapeze has won the rights to publish Stephanie Land's memoir Maid next January following a five-way auction. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Viola Davis won a Grammy Award Sunday for the recording of her memoir, Finding Me. She has previously won an Emmy, Oscar and two Tony awards. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2023-02-05 22:33:19 UTC ]
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the author of the memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds, available from Doubleday. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! From the episode: Brad Listi: I want to hear you talk about creative strategies that you undertook to overcome... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-08-10 08:50:58 UTC ]
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Chris Belcher’s searing memoir about her work as a professional dominatrix isn’t exactly a comfortable read. Not because of the subject, but because Pretty Baby asks more of the reader than many memoirs. Like the best art does, this book invites introspection and interrogation of both our own... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-07-20 11:00:00 UTC ]
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In her new book, Amy Bloom writes about loving her husband and helping him to end his life after a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2022-03-01 10:59:23 UTC ]
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Until I was five years old, my mother and I lived with her parents in Flatbush, Brooklyn. We never talked about my father. We never said his name, which meant that we never said my full name, Sherry Zimmerman. I first saw my full name written out in an inscription in a children’s alphabet book […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-02-28 09:49:55 UTC ]
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Fourth Estate has triumphed in an 11-publisher auction for Yomi Adegoke’s "entertaining and daring" debut novel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-18 11:55:31 UTC ]
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Hodder Studio has landed Letters from Brenda by Emma Kennedy, a memoir that explores the author's relationship with her mum, inspired by the discovery of 75 lost letters. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-12 23:00:44 UTC ]
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Little A, the literary fiction and non-fiction imprint of Amazon Publishing, has acquired a "powerful" memoir by Paul Burston, founder of the Polari Prize, the UK’s first and largest LGBTQ+ book award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-09 09:18:56 UTC ]
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Transworld has triumphed in a 10-way auction for His Name is George Floyd by two Washington Post reporters, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-09 17:52:20 UTC ]
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The Bodley Head has landed historian Tabitha Stanmore's debut, Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, after a six-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-09 12:33:10 UTC ]
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Octopus imprint Brazen has won a five-way auction for the debut book from Scottish comedian and writer Fern Brady about her experience of autism. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-30 02:00:06 UTC ]
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Faber has won a three-way auction for Irish Times journalist Ronan McGreevy's "vivid, pacy" investigation into the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-29 15:40:19 UTC ]
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“Bewilderment,” longlisted for a National Book Award, follows a widower desperate to help his neurodivergent son. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-09-21 15:24:56 UTC ]
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Picador has won a four-way auction for the “meditative and powerful” debut collection by poet James Conor Patterson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-14 01:12:14 UTC ]
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Little, Brown imprint Orbit has won a three-way auction for two novels from Thomas D Lee, including his debut Perilous Times. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-09 22:54:38 UTC ]
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Bluebird has won a five-way auction for a "gorgeous" guide to tarot for the modern reader by Unbound commissioning editor Fiona Lensvelt and advertising strategist Jennifer Cownie. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-09 14:35:20 UTC ]
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Yellow Kite has signed Hope is Coming, Louise Blyth’s “extraordinarily powerful” memoir of grief, gratitude and enlightenment. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-16 07:57:45 UTC ]
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Claire Wilcox has won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2021 for her "vivid" memoir Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes (Bloomsbury). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-04 21:28:36 UTC ]
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Faber has triumphed in a five-way auction to republish They: A Sequence of Unease, a "forgotten masterpiece" by Kay Dick, after Curtis Brown agent Becky Brown discovered the book in a second-hand shop. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-09 08:00:27 UTC ]
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Hamish Hamilton has won a three-publisher auction for The Trio by Johanna Hedman, a “strikingly elegant” literary debut which has been snapped up in a flurry of deals by editors across Europe. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-08 10:06:48 UTC ]
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