- Dixon sells two to Portobello
Isobel Dixon at Blake Friedmann has to Portobello Portrait with Keys by Ivan Vladislavich.
- Shopaholic gets married
Charlotte Mendelson at Headline Review has commissioned a new novel by Susan Vreeland, author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, buying UK and Commonwealth rights from ......
- Miss Read with curlers
Marianne Velmans at Doubleday has bought UK and Commonwealth rights in a "very moving, beautifully written" memoir of a childhood spent in the Kalahari Desert ......
- World's Only Web Site With a Live Person On theHome Page Adds New Web Emcee Deborah Rogers...
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 1999-- Kona Systems announced the addition of Deborah Rogers as the latest addition to its lineup of Web Emcees for its ......
- Out of East Africa
Portobello is to publish a food memoir by prominent journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.
- Spring promotions bloom at RH
Spring has brought a raft of promotions across the Random House Group's design, publicity and sales departments.
- Payne romps through fame
Beth Coates at Vintage has bought A History of Fame by Daily Telegraph journalist Tom Payne.
- Bloomsbury signs Egypt history
Bill Swainson at Bloomsbury has signed a very good deal to publish The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson.
- Dell’Olio pens memoir
Transworld has bought the memoirs of Nancy Dell’Olio, girlfriend of former England football coach Sven-Goran Eriksson.
- Why we’ve had enough
Helen Coyle has bought for Hodder Enough! by John Naish, an editor at the Body & Soul section of the Times.
- An outcast in Surrey
Clara Farmer, recently arrived at Chatto from Atlantic as editorial director, has signed up The Outcast, a debut novel set in 1950s Surrey by screenwriter ......
- US thriller wins six-figure deals
Orion has paid a significant sum for No Time for Goodbye, a novel by Linwood Barclay, who has also won big advances from publishers in ......
- Vampire fiction for Headline
Piers Blofeld at Headline has bought three novels by Tate Hallaway, one of the new wave of vampire novelists who are in vogue in the ......
- A boy, a girl, and a goat
Annabel Wright has bought for Harper Press Fiction a first novel, Radio Silence, by 23-year-old US author Ben Dolnick.
- The story of The Rape
Sophie Gee, a 32-year-old newcomer, has written a “clever, sexy, literary historical novel” telling the story behind Pope’s poem “The Rape of the Lock”.