- Random House US and UK buy big commercial fiction debut
Kate Elton at Arrow and Allison Dickens at Ballantine have bought for Random House UK and US Rebecca Horsfall’s debut Dancing on Thorns, a 1,000-page ......
- 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.
- Lady Thatcher's leadership
lessons.
Does Lady Margaret Thatcher have anything to teach association executives about leadership? I thought so, and so did hundreds of members of the association community ......
- The Colors Of Memory
Argentinean-born, L.A.-resident screenwriter/director Tagliavini makes her fiction debut with this tale of an odd, disgruntled old woman and an abused ten-year-old boy fleeing their hospital ......
- The Wheelman
After a morning robbery in Philadelphia's Center City, thieves Bling and Holden and wheelman Lennon, an Irish immigrant, are speeding to the airport when their ......
- The Dragon Of Lonely Island
For her fiction debut, Rupp (Good Stuff--Learning Tools For All Ages, 1993, not reviewed) decks a light, low-tension fantasy with an amazing quantity of tried-and-true ......
- Film man’s fiction debut
Kate Barker at Viking has signed a pre-emptive deal for Salt, a first novel by FilmFour script editor Jeremy Page.
- Moghul Buffet
Benard's fiction debut starts out as a crackling mystery set on the Pakistani frontier, but the author's deft blend of humor and suspense lapses into ......
- Last Bite
Executive chef Casey Costello handles all the cooking segments for popular daily TV show Morning in America. She and her team support Sally Woods, a ......
- A Family Trait
Readers fond of lightweight mysteries solved by spunky heroines will take to this fiction debut, though a heavy ballast of tragedy and near-tragedy keeps it ......
- A Mango-shaped Space
A young teen whose world is filled with colors and shapes that no one else sees copes with the universal and competing drives to be ......
- In The Arms Of One Who Loves Me
Poet LaMon's lackluster fiction debut tells us what it's like to be young, black . . . and confused. Nia Benson is ready to reinvent ......
- Genealogical thrillers for Penguin
Beverley Cousins at Michael Joseph/Penguin has signed a "substantial" deal for two novels by a new crime writer, Dan Waddell.
- What the 21st century means
Susanna Wadeson has bought for Transworld’s Eden Project Books imprint a book by James Martin, founder of the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilisation.
- The Mighty Skink
After a brief fling in the outside world, a captive rhesus monkey concludes that there's no place like home. Kaz's settled life in a wildlife ......