Two Roads snaps up Volpe self-published memoir

Two Roads has acquired an originally self-published memoir by the general manager of Opera Holland Park. Michael Volpe’s Noisy at the Wrong Times was chosen by The Bookseller’s Caroline Sanderson as an Independent Author pick in April, and was named by the Sunday Times as one of its “100 biographies to love”. Kate Hewson, senior editor at John Murray Press imprint Two Roads, bought world rights to Noisy at the Wrong Times direct from Volpe. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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