William Collins has acquired writer and wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill’s debut, How to Speak Whale. Tom Killingbeck, commissioning editor at William Collins, bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Kerry Glencorse at Susanna Lea Associates in a competitive auction. Publication will be Spring 2021. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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"The Great British Bake Off" contestant Liam Charles, aka "cake boy" to his friends, has signed with Hodder & Stoughton to publish his debut cookbook. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House has scored two out of the three shortlisted titles for best first novel from the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House imprint Fig Tree is to publish the first novel by current WriteNow mentee Geraldine Quigley. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Singer-songwriter Florence Welch has signed her first book - an illustrated collection of lyrics and poetry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In this week’s Rundown, we examine reasons Facebook and Google will be constrained in 2018, Wired’s play for digital subscriptions and more. The post The Rundown: Digital publishing’s crash landing appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The second book published by premium cycling brand Rapha Editions has scooped the 29th William Hill Sport Book of the Year for its “startlingly intimate portrait” of Tour de France trailblazer Tom Simpson . Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC Books will publish BBC presenter Stacey Dooley’s debut about "extraordinary women". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins imprint 4th Estate has snapped up the debut adult novel of Irish children’s author Darragh Martin. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stuart Evers and Tessa McWatt have been announced as the joint winners of the Eccles British Library Writer’s Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nine publishers fought over a debut book by Fabulous magazine’s deputy chief sub Stacey Bartlett before Bonnier Zaffre triumphed as the winner at auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson has won a debut American novel at auction, about a young couple on their honeymoon in 1957, pitched as reminiscent of Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador has acquired two books from writer Olivia Laing, including a first novel called Crudo about "finding love amidst the global chaos of the summer of 2017". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has acquired rights in a "significant" pre-empt to an untitled memoir by first-time author Julie Yip-Williams, "a powerful book about living". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hello! I’m Carolyn Kellogg, books editor of the L.A. Times. Let’s get to this week’s newsletter. THE BIG STORY Matthew Weiner concluded “Mad Men,” the show he created, with a shelf of Emmys and the ability to do anything he wanted. It’s not as easy as it sounds, he told Meredith Blake, explaining... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Heinemann has bought two books by New York Times bestselling novelist Lauren Groff. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Five days after leaving as publisher of Penguin Random House's TarcherPerigee imprint, Joel Fotinos has been named editorial director for a line of mind/body/spirit books at St. Martin's. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who inspired a nationwide protest movement against racism, has a million-dollar book deal from Random House imprint One World, according to the New York Post's Page Six. Random House did not immediately respond to a request for comment... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has scored twice on the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award shortlist, vying against fellow indies Biteback Publishing and Axis Projects, as well as Simon & Schuster and Transworld. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sandstone Press has acquired The Tyranny of Lost Things, the debut novel from The Vagenda blog founder Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett which it says will "resonate with the millenial generation". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Salt has acquired the debut novel from Bookseller rising star and co-founder of Burley Fisher Books, Sam Fisher. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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