William Heinemann snaps up Katz debut on toxic masculinity

PRH imprint William Heinemann will publish Ani Katz’s “shocking and utterly compelling” debut novel A Good Man, which sees Katz tackle the world of toxic masculinity.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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W&N wins US debut 'Cape May' at auction

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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OUP snaps up The Night Zookeeper

Oxford University Press (OUP) Children’s has acquired a fiction series from the BAFTA-nominated creators of The Night Zookeeper, a digital platform which promotes children’s writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Collins buys Rowson's 'new history' of Alexander

William Collins has acquired a book about the "new history" of Alexander the Great by writer, archaeologist and TV producer, Alex Rowson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld pre-empts 'extraordinary' memoir by Julie Yip-Williams

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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Books: Matthew Weiner of 'Mad Men' fame writes a novel; an edgy local debut; bestsellers and more

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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Townsend's Nevermoor snapped up by 20th Century Fox

Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow will be adapted for screen by the Oscar-nominated writer of "The Martian" for Twentieth Century Fox. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury scores two on William Hill shortlist

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 signs Vagenda co-founder Cosslett's debut novel

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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Trapeze snaps up 'jawdropping' thriller from Ashdown

Trapeze will publish an “unsettling thriller” set in Norway from novelist Isabel Ashdown which promises “jawdropping twists and turns”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Salt signs Rising Star Fisher's debut

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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Former Granta staffer's debut sells in three languages

Translator and former Granta publicist Saskia Vogel’s debut I Am a Pornographer has secured a flurry of deals in the UK, Sweden and Spain. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marvel and Netflix's 'The Punisher' will debut November 17th

Marvel and its distinguished competitor will go head-to-head this fall. But rather than the brawl playing out at comic book shops, the venues will be your living room and local multiplex. Netflix has revealed that its latest Marvel superhero antihero... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2017-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Designer of the Year winner Williams lands publishing deal

Jake Williams, winner of the Business Design Centre’s New Designer of the Year 2017, has signed a three book deal with Pavilion Children's Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC signs 'dark' debut novel by former agent Begbie

HarperFiction has bought a “brilliant, dark debut novel” which explores the many identities women “juggle” throughout life from former agent Hannah Begbie, inspired by her son’s cystic fibrosis. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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OUP scoops Ramirez's children fiction debut

Oxford University Press Children’s will publish a debut children's fiction series from BBC historian Dr Janina Ramirez. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2017: Iowa MFA Grad Lands Six Figures for Debut Novel-in-Stories

Regina Porter’s 'The Travelers,' which rumor has it sold for roughly half a million dollars in the U.S. alone, is now racking up foreign sales, with six-figure deals having just closed in the U.K. and Germany. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sceptre wins 25 year-old's literary debut in four-way auction

Sceptre has acquired British literary debut Saltwater, a "tenderly evocative and poetic" novel by 25-year old Jessica Andrews, in a four-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BAM Gets Behind Debut Cookbook in New Holiday Promo

The nation's second largest bookstore chain is going exclusive with a debut cookbook by an Alabama food blogger as part of a holiday promotion running through the end of the year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quarto launches sub-imprint for children's debuts

Frances Lincoln Children’s Books is launching a sub-imprint devoted to debuts with a “diverse and global focus”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Virago to publish Greenlandic debut

Virago Press is publishing a novella from the Greenlandic language by Niviaq Korneliussen, translated by Anna Halager. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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