- Davos Man Meets Homo Balcanicus
Davos Man Meets Homo Balcanicus Sumantra Bose, Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 352 pp., $35. Roger ......
- Europe's peacebuilding hour? Past failures, future challenges
HEADNOTE "The hour of Europe in enforcing, keeping and building peace seems to have come and gone . . . Europe failed to demonstrate its ......
- Waters tomes
Last weekend got off to a soggy start at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. But the world of publishing would not be beaten by the ......
- The sport of face-stuffing
Yellow Jersey, the sports imprint at Random House, is to stretch definitions by publishing a book about the "sport" of competitive eating.
- Cape says aloha to Hawaian
Kaui Hart Hemmings, a writer from Hawaii, is to make his debut as a novelist for Cape.
- Austrian kidnap in publishers’ sights
Competition is heating up among UK publishers for the memoirs of Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian kidnap victim who escaped last month after more than eight ......
- Gascoigne buys first book
Former Sunday Times literary editor Caroline Gascoigne has made her first acquisition as publishing director of Hutchinson, with a book about child soldiers from General ......
- Bloom returns for Granta
Sara Holloway at Granta has bought a new novel by Amy Bloom, whose most recent work of fiction was the short story collection A Blind ......
- RH rushes out Putin
Random House imprint Hutchinson is to publish First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Portrait of Russia's President Vladimir Putin (9th May, paper, £9.99, 0091793785) only three ......
- n.b.news
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- Constable buys Canadian epic
Constable, with a backlist including novels by Muriel Spark, is signalling a return to literary fiction with the acquisition of a massive Canadian novel, Hunger’s ......
- Fantasy deal for ex-editor
A former children's books editor has ......
- Quirky Canadian debut for Weidenfeld
Helen Garnons-Williams at Weidenfeld has bought at auction Bang Crunch, a collection of “quirky, shrewdly funny and warm” stories by Montreal writer Neil Smith.
- HC buys it-girls novel
Susan Watt at HarperCollins has bought Three Girls and Their Brother, a first novel by US scriptwriter and playwright Theresa Rebeck.
- Dixon sells two to Portobello
Isobel Dixon at Blake Friedmann has to Portobello Portrait with Keys by Ivan Vladislavich.