Viking swoops in six-way battle for Hauser's Crane Wife

Viking has triumphed in a six-way auction for The Crane Wife by C J Hauser, an essay collection including her account of going on a scientific expedition to study the whooping crane 10 days after calling off her engagement. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-09 04:10:46 UTC ]
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'We've always had to battle complacency': Authors Ijeoma Oluo and Emmanuel Acho in conversation

Antiracist author Ijeoma Oluo, whose latest book is 'Mediocre,' joins Emmanuel Acho, author of 'Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man,' for a frank talk. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-11-24 15:16:34 UTC ]
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HarperNonFiction wins four-way battle for Fisher

HarperNonFiction has won a four-way auction for Women in the War by Times defence editor Lucy Fisher. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-20 10:25:59 UTC ]
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Harvill Secker wins eight-publisher battle for Faloyin

Harvill Secker has triumphed in an eight-publisher auction for the “invigoratingly original” Africa Is Not A Country by Dipo Faloyin. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-17 22:48:05 UTC ]
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W&N swoops for Italian bestseller The Hummingbird

Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired world English rights in Sandro Veronesi's Italian bestseller The Hummingbird, translated by Elena Pala.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-10 20:46:53 UTC ]
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Ebury swoops for Dench's Flight

Ebury Press has swooped for Sacha Dench's Flight, an account of her 7,000km journey in a paraglider with a propeller strapped to her back, to follow and help to save the Bewick’s swan. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-08 22:09:40 UTC ]
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Avon nets Serial Killer's Wife from Hunter

Avon Books has netted The Serial Killer’s Wife, an “addictive and disturbing” new thriller by Alice Hunter. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-03 17:16:17 UTC ]
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Johnny Depp loses libel case against Sun over claims he beat ex-wife Amber Heard

Pirates of Caribbean actor had sued newspaper publisher for damage to his reputationThe Hollywood actor Johnny Depp has lost his high-stakes libel action in the London courts against the Sun after the newspaper described him as a “wife beater”.The high court dismissed the claim by the Pirates of... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-11-02 11:23:11 UTC ]
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What Barack Obama's memoir reveals about his long battle for healthcare reform

In an excerpt from his upcoming memoir published by the New Yorker, former President Barack Obama recalls the long battle for healthcare reform. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-10-26 19:52:09 UTC ]
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In Germany: Audiobooks, Ebooks, and the ‘Battle for Attention’

A new look at German consumers' responses to a survey was reported during a week in which Frankfurter Buchmesse 'lived' on screens. The post In Germany: Audiobooks, Ebooks, and the ‘Battle for Attention’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-10-20 16:21:29 UTC ]
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Biden Town Hall Leads Trump in Ratings Battle

Early Nielsen figures showed Joseph R. Biden Jr. drawing 13.9 million viewers, against 13.1 million for President Trump, a ratings obsessive. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2020-10-16 18:09:04 UTC ]
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A young lawyer battling for women caught up in mass incarceration

Brittany Barnett reveals the ways both crime and punishment disrupt families and intimate relationships. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-10-16 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Joseph lands Crane's 'enthralling' Latitude

Michael Joseph has landed Latitude by geographer, explorer, writer and broadcaster Nicholas Crane, telling the story of the world’s first international scientific expedition, which set out to find the shape of the earth. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-05 20:56:14 UTC ]
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Viking pre-empts Khabushani's 'heartbreaking' debut

Viking has pre-empted Our New Names, a “heartbreaking” debut novel from Khashayar J Khabushani. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-25 03:48:29 UTC ]
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Grushin's subversive fairy tale The Charmed Wife to Hodder

Hodder has acquired The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin, "a sophisticated literary fairy tale for the 21st century" in which Cinderella decides 13 years after her happy ending that she wants her Prince Charming dead. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-23 11:12:41 UTC ]
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Barack Obama memoirs to be released by Viking in November

The first volume of Barack Obama's presidential memoirs, A Promised Land, will be published in November by Viking, it has been announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-17 00:02:39 UTC ]
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Viking snaps up 'riveting' historical fiction debut

Viking has acquired a historical debut by Annie Garthwaite, reimagining the story of Cecily Neville, the Duchess of York and mother to two kings of England—Edward IV and Richard III. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-16 20:07:38 UTC ]
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Viking to celebrate the NHS's 75th birthday with new biography

Viking has acquired Fighting for Life: The Twelve Battles that Made Our NHS, and the Struggle for Its Future by Isabel Hardman, to be published ahead of the NHS's 75th anniversary in 2023.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-10 16:18:06 UTC ]
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Richard Osman to write two more Thursday Murder Club books for Viking

Richard Osman, whose first novel The Thursday Murder Club this week becomes the fastest selling adult crime debut since records began, has signed a deal with Viking for two more books in the series. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-07 19:31:57 UTC ]
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Jean Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

“I don’t know what it means!” Andy Warhol bleats, in John Giorno’s Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment (out now from Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Warhol’s ditzy refrain is a mantra for the perpetually bemused, at once tragicomic and tongue-in-cheek. He says... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-08-14 08:48:26 UTC ]
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Viking signs Pulitzer Prize-winner's 'historic biography' of Malcolm X

Viking has signed an “epic” biography of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne, drawing on three decades of author interviews to rewrite much of the known narrative. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-02 21:06:02 UTC ]
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