Annual Archives: 2019
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13th December 2019
Walker signs three-book deal with Greg Jenner
Walker Books has signed a three-book deal with “Horrible Histories” historian Greg Jenner. Commissioning editor Daisy Jellicoe acquired world, all languages rights for one gift... more »
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13th November 2019
Bloomsbury buys Henry Scowcroft’s ‘professional and personal’ cancer memoir
A memoir billed as a “popular-science detective story” by science writer Henry Scowcroft has gone to Bloomsbury imprint Green Tree, focusing on his fiancée’s experience of advanced... more »
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8th October 2019
Head of Zeus signs Zoe Somerville’s debut in two-book deal
Head of Zeus has struck a two-book deal with debut author and English teacher Zoë Somerville. Madeleine O’Shea, commissioning editor at Head of Zeus, has... more »
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3rd October 2019
R.G. Adams’ procedural ALLEGATION snapped up for TV
Award-winning producer John Giwa-Amu of Red & Black Films and acclaimed executive music producer Mark Lo of Asylum Giant have partnered in acquiring TV rights... more »
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26th September 2019
Oneworld and St Martin’s Press acquire Sarah Gristwood’s new book THE TUDORS IN LOVE
Oneworld and St Martin’s Press have acquired the new book from Tudor historian Sarah Gristwood, The Tudors in Love: How Romance Made and Marred the... more »
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19th July 2019
Michael Joseph pre-empts Alex Pavesi’s ‘dazzling’ debut
Michael Joseph has triumphed over eight other publishers to pre-empt a “dazzlingly clever” debut mystery novel Eight Detectives by former Waterstones bookseller Alex Pavesi. Publisher Joel Richardson acquired... more »
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11th July 2019
Headline Home pre-empts Akemi Tanaka’s THE POWER OF CHOWA
Headline Home has pre-empted a book by Akemi Tanaka on Chowa, the Japanese philosophy of finding balance in life. Senior commissioning editor Anna Steadman scooped... more »
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22nd May 2019
Michael O’Mara Books to publish biography of Margaret Beaufort by historian Dr Nicola Tallis
Michael O’Mara Books is to publish the first comprehensive popular biography in over thirty years of Margaret Beaufort – mother of Henry VII, the first... more »
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17th May 2019
Bloomsbury snaps up Alice Bell’s OUR BIGGEST EXPERIMENT
Jim Martin, publisher of Bloomsbury Sigma, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Alice Bell’s Our Biggest Experiment: The History of Climate Change from Donald Winchester. Sigma... more »
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17th May 2019
Martin Edwards nominated in two categories at this years CWA Dagger Awards
Congratulations to Martin Edwards who has been nominated in two categories at this years CWA Daggers. He is up for the CWA Sapere Historical Dagger... more »
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28th March 2019
PRH Children’s buys feminist YA series by Rebecca Elliott
PRH Children’s has bought a feminist teen series about an aspiring female comic by Rebecca Elliott, with the first book in the series Pretty Funny to be... more »
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26th March 2019
Bonnier Zaffre lands Mara Timon’s ‘brilliant’ female spy thriller debut
Zaffre has landed debut author Mara Timon’s “brilliant, expertly-researched” espionage thriller following a female Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent. World rights for City of Spies were acquired... more »
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23rd January 2019
Ajay Chowdhury scoops Harvill Secker BAME crime competition
Tech founder Ajay Chowdhury has won the inaugural Harvill Secker and Bloody Scotland competition with Arvon to find a new crime writer from a BAME (black,... more »