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2 months ago | 
thebookseller.com | Lauren Brown
In Holly Brickley’s debut novel, Deep Cuts, set in America against the backdrop of the noughties music scene, college students Percy and Joe meet at a bar in the year 2000 and are immediately drawn to one another, connecting over a shared love, and deep, deliciously nerdy, knowledge of music.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thebookseller.com | Lauren Brown
Writer and Arvon creative writing course leader Rozie Kelly wrote her debut novel Kingfisher, which won the 2024 NorthBound Book Award, managed as part of the Northern Writers’ Awards, in a whirlwind eight months.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Lauren Brown
Garrett Carr’s adult fiction debut, The Boy from the Sea, was born from the author’s interest in the articulation of male experience and emotion, and the “creative or technical problem of: ‘How do you talk about people’s emotional lives when they themselves don’t have the vocabulary, don’t have the interest in doing it?’” Set in 1973 in a close-knit fishing community on Ireland’s west coast (in Donegal, where Carr hails from), The Boy from the Sea begins when a baby is found abandoned on the...
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Lauren Brown
“Yes, there are dark moments in life—but you’re not just going through every day being sad and thinking big, serious thoughts”Nussaibah Younis’ bold and hilarious debut novel Fundamentally follows academic Nadia’s attempts to set up a programme to rehabilitate ISIS brides.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Lauren Brown
The Borough Press has acquired Imani Thompson’s “blistering and addictive” debut novel Honey, about a PhD student at Cambridge University who develops a compulsion for murder. Commissioning editor Jo Thompson won UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Nicola Chang of David Higham in a “fiercely fought” 10-way auction over the course of Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Lauren Brown
Michael Joseph has acquired Elizabeth and Marilyn, a new novel by Julie Owen Moylan set in 1956, when Queen Elizabeth and Marilyn Monroe briefly lived as neighbours in Windsor. Publisher Clio Cornish acquired world all-language rights. Michael Joseph will publish the book in hardback, e-book and audio in April 2026, the year marking both women’s centenary. The novel opens in the summer of 1956.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Lauren Brown
Books by Sally Rooney, Percival Everett and Colm Tóibín are among those in contention for Waterstones Book of the Year 2024, with the winner to be announced on Thursday 28th November. Every year Waterstones booksellers are called on to nominate an outstanding book they particularly enjoyed recommending to readers over the previous year. Previous winners range from Philip Pullman and Maggie O’Farrell to Charlie Mackesy, Paul McCartney and Katherine Rundell.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Lauren Brown
Double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes is amongst the six authors shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2024, with her memoir Unique (Mirror Books). It is one of three books by female authors to make the final selection ahead of the 36th awards, along with These Heavy Black Bones (Canongate) by former British swimming champion Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell and My Beautiful Sisters by Afghanistan women’s football team co-founder and captain Khalida Popal (John Murray).
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Lauren Brown
Titan Books has acquired Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die, a stand-alone, queer comedic fantasy from début author and illustrator Greer Stothers. Fiction editor Katie Dent bought world English-language rights, including audio, from Ben Miller-Callihan at Handspun Literary Agency, with publication scheduled for February 2026.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Lauren Brown
HarperCollins has acquired The Tradwife’s Secret by pseudonymous author Liane Child. Publishing director Cicely Aspinall acquired world all-language rights for HQ Digital directly from the author. Publication is scheduled for May 2025. The Tradwife’s Secret is set in Montana and Wyoming and follows the lives of three women, including mega-influencer Madison March. The synopsis reads: "To the outside world, Madison March is the perfect wife.
