Viking gets alarmed

Viking has acquired Do Not Become Alarmed by Women’s Prize for Fiction-shortlisted author Maile Meloy. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Viking editorial director Eleo Gordon retires

Editorial director for Viking, Eleo Gordon, has retired after nearly 50 years at Penguin. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking to publish Ruud Gullit on football

Viking is publishing a book by Dutch footballer Ruud Gullit, intended to "change the way we see – and enjoy – the beautiful game". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking acquires thriller debut The Witchfinder's Sister

Viking has acquired a literary historical thriller The Witchfinder’s Sister by debut author Beth Underdown. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking wins auction for crime series

Viking is publishing three novels by a debut crime writer, Cara Hunter, following a "hotly contested" auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking acquires 'major' debut novel All the Good Things

Viking has acquired All the Good Things: a "major" debut novel by Clare Sita Fisher. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking pre-empts psychological thriller in 'substantial' deal

Viking has pre-empted world rights for a debut psychological thriller My Sister’s Bones by British author Nuala Ellwood. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ABA Head Rings Alarm About Amazon Books and Antitrust Laws

In light of Amazon opening a physical store in Seattle, the booksellers association head is reminding publishers and other vendors of their obligation to ensure that accounts do not transfer inventory from one class of business to another. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Robertson joins Viking non-fiction

Emily Robertson has been appointed as editor for non-fiction at Viking. Robertson, who was previously at Hodder, will be acquiring across narrative and illustrated non-fiction at the Penguin General imprint. She will report to Viking publisher Joel Rickett. Viking said Robertson would help... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking signs Elvis Costello memoir

Penguin Random House imprint Viking is to publish Elvis Costello’s memoir this autumn. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink will offer “unique view of his unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success, with diversions through the previously undocumented emotional foundations... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking signs collection from Piketty

Viking has pre-empted the new book by economist Thomas Piketty, author of the bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Belknap Press and Harvard University Press). Chronicles will give Piketty’s views on a variety of contemporary subjects and individuals, including the financial... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking's Mount buys 'incredible' debut

Viking has acquired an “incredible debut work of fiction” by an Australian writer. Publisher Mary Mount bought world rights, excluding Australia New Zealand, to Abigail Ulman’s Hot Little Hands from Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge and White. Mount said: “Abigail Ulman’s work is tender,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tart made Viking president in Penguin US restructure

Penguin Publishing Group in the US is to shut two of its non-fiction imprints, and bring two further imprints under one leadership structure, as part of a reorganisation which includes two staff departures. Madeline McIntosh, president of the Penguin Publishing Group, told staff about the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking, Dutton Get New Leadership in Penguin Reorg

Madeline McIntosh has implemented a wide-ranging restructuring of the division. Among the changes, Brian Tart is being given the reins at Viking, succeeding Clare Ferraro, who is leaving the company. Additionally, the Hudson Street Press and Gotham Books imprints are being folded. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking pre-empts 'major' JFK biography

Viking has pre-empted a major new biography of former US president John F Kennedy. The book,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking's Hammond moves to Bodley Head

The Bodley Head has appointed Will Hammond as editorial director. Hammond is currently... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Johnston Press newspaper staff in Ireland alarmed by contracts switch

Johnston Press employees in Ireland have received notices informing them that the terms of their employment contracts will be switched to a new company, Formpress Publishing Ltd, later this week.They believe it to be a precursor to the publisher's newspapers being sold to the company, which was... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Vikings of Brazil

We interview São Paulo-based literary agent Pasi Loman who specializes in selling book rights between Brazilian and Scandinavian publishers. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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