- Conservative idealism and international institutions
Like many Anglo-American conservatives, Jeremy Rabkin believes that the European Union ("EU") presents "a serious challenge to American policy aims and American political ideals."1 This ......
- Beautiful, witty, and good
Penguin has paid more than $250,000 to beat HarperCollins to the UK and Commonwealth paperback rights in Stupid White Men, Michael Moore's bestselling satire about ......
- Fish: never on a Monday
Fay Weldon has sold her autobiography to HarperCollins for delivery in December 2000. Her agent, Giles Gordon of Curtis Brown Scotland, negotiated a six-figure deal ......
- Golfer Daly’s memoir to HC
HarperCollins US and UK have paid a substantial sum for world English rights in the memoirs of John Daly.
- Death of a friend foretold
Sam Humphreys has bought for Picador Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet, a first novel by Ontario-based writer Joanne Proulx.
- When The Book Isn't...
One of the most durable canards among moviegoers is that the book was better. , , , --does anyone really prefer their film adaptations to ......
- 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.
- Friction causes excitement
Dan Franklin and Beth Coates at Vintage have bought Friction, a first novel by 24-year-old Joe Stretch, who sings in a Manchester band called Performance.
- Payne romps through fame
Beth Coates at Vintage has bought A History of Fame by Daily Telegraph journalist Tom Payne.
- Hungarian hit for Doubleday
Jane Lawson at Doubleday has won at auction the most highly touted Hungarian novel since the rediscovered Embers by Sandor Marai: The White King by ......
- Among the pork scratchings eaters
Kerri Sharp has signed up for Simon & Schuster Greg Gutfeld, describing him as “Bill Bryson aimed at a cooler audience”.
- Reality tie-ins for Virgin
Virgin has bought new tie-ins to the reality TV shows Castaway and Big Brother.
- 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.
- Sprawling epic from Suri
Alexandra Pringle at Bloomsbury is hailing a new work by Manil Suri as “one of the greatest novels to come out of India in the ......