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  15th November 2022

  Footnote Press signs exploration of queer single motherhood by Hannah Silva

  Writer and performer Hannah Silva’s “genre-fluid memoir that questions what it is to write, to parent and to love”, entitled My Child, the Algorithm, has been... more »

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  31st October 2022

  Simon & Schuster/Gallery buys rights in SEVENTEEN by Joe Gibson

  Gallery has signed SEVENTEEN, an “achingly poignant” memoir written under the pseudonym Joe Gibson. Commissioning editor Alison MacDonald acquired World English Language rights from Donald... more »

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  17th October 2022

  Cornerstone Press buys rights in THE SOCIAL BRAIN

  The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups by Tracey Camilleri, Samantha Rockey and Robin Dunbar has been signed by Cornerstone Press/PenguinRandomHouse, for publication in... more »

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  7th October 2022

  Jones, Kinnear and Clifford join starry cast to read Moore’s audiobook

  Actors including Toby Jones, Rory Kinnear, Sian Clifford and Emilia Fox are among those who will be recording the audiobook of Alan Moore’s Illuminations (Bloomsbury). In his... more »

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  30th September 2022

  HQ snaps up two books from Blackhurst, writing as J L Blackhurst

  HQ has snapped up two books from Jenny Blackhurst, writing under J L Blackhurst. Cicely Aspinall, senior commissioning editor, acquired world English language rights from... more »

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  28th July 2022

  Alice Bell’s OUR BIGGEST EXPERIMENT shortlisted for Wainwright Prize

  Congratulations to Alice Bell, whose OUR BIGGEST EXPERIMENT (Bloomsbury Sigma) has been shortlisted for the 2002 James Cropper Wainwright Prize! Named after much-loved nature writer... more »

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  29th June 2022

  KEEPING THE HOUSE longlisted for Gordon Burn Prize 2022

  Congratulations to Tice Cin, who has added the Gordon Burn Prize longlist to a slew of other prize listings for her debut novel KEEPING THE... more »

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  23rd June 2022

  Alice Bell and Jeremy Williams are longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2022

  Congratulations to Alice Bell (OUR BIGGEST EXPERIMENT) and Jeremy Williams (CLIMATE CHANGE IS RACIST) who have both been longlisted for the 2022 James Cropper Wainwright... more »

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  7th June 2022

  KEEPING THE HOUSE shortlisted for Desmond Elliott Prize

  The accolades keep coming in for KEEPING THE HOUSE – it has now been shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2022. In a shortlist of... more »

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  1st June 2022

  Tice Cin’s KEEPING THE HOUSE wins a Somerset Maugham Award

  Congratulations to Tice Cin for winning a Somerset Maugham Award for her debut novel KEEPING THE HOUSE! The Somerset Maugham Awards are for published works of... more »