Married to the Mormons
Jessop was forced into marriage at 18 with a 50-year-old man who already had three wives. By the time of her escape at the age of 35, she had given birth to eight children and had suffered years of abuse. Jeffs, who was on the 10 most wanted list of the FBI, was arrested in summer 2006.
Barker bought UK and Commonwealth rights through Karolina Sutton at ICM. Viking will publish in spring 2008. Broadway will publish in the US.
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A new crime writer, Helen Fitzgerald, is attracting strong interest in the rights market, and has won a deal with Faber in the UK.
The pre-Frankfurt rights market has begun to buzz, with a number of big auctions setting the scene for activity in the LitAg centre next week.
The pre-Frankfurt rights market has begun to buzz, with a number of big auctions setting the scene for activity in the LitAg centre next week.
Portobello, which is just about to launch its first list, has paid what it describes as “a hefty sum” for world rights in Stuffed and ......
Archer Street and Film Four have bought film rights in Incendiary, the debut novel by Chris Cleave that in December earned a six-figure advance from ......
Carole Tonkinson at HarperCollins has bought William C Taylor and Polly LaBarre’s Mavericks at Work, a look at today’s top business leaders.
Susan Watt at HarperCollins has bought Three Girls and Their Brother, a first novel by US scriptwriter and playwright Theresa Rebeck.
Weidenfeld has bought the autobiography of Marie Helvin, the 1970s and 80s supermodel.
In the season of diet books, Sphere has bought a diet book for this time next year: Marisa Peer’s Think Yourself Thin Forever.
Bill Swainson at Bloomsbury has signed a very good deal to publish The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson.
Further evidence of the return of glitz comes with Hodder’s six-figure purchase of Crystal, “a sparkling bonkbuster set in the fruity world of wine-making” by ......
Virgin has bought new tie-ins to the reality TV shows Castaway and Big Brother.
Patrick Bishop, author of the acclaimed Fighter Boys, is to write for HarperCollins about 3 Para’s recent tour of the Helmand Province in Afghanistan.
An unemployed IT specialist, William Petrie, has seen his first novel sold to HarperCollins in a six-figure deal.
Helen Coyle has bought for Hodder Enough! by John Naish, an editor at the Body & Soul section of the Times.
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