News Tindal Street editor picked up by Canongate RIGHTS DEAL


CANONGATE SNAPS UP BROWN Tom Tivnan


Canongate editorial director Francis Bickmore has acquired a début novel from Luke Brown, senior editor at UK independent publisher Tindal St Press. Bickmore bought world rights to My Biggest Lie from Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge & White. A comic novel about “father figures, second chances and knowing when it’s


NEWS IN BRIEF Khoo


time to quit pretending”, My Biggest Lie follows a youngish London publisher who, after one calamitous night, loses his job, his girlfriend and nearly his life. He then heads to Buenos Aires hoping to regain control, but finds that difficult in one of the world’s most sensual cities. Bickmore said: “This marks the


arrival of a funny, humane and utterly winning new voice. Te book is basically an extended love letter and is deeply affecting about affairs of the heart. It


Penguin, who are the most wonderful collaborators and publishers. I’m so excited to be writing a new book for 2013 and can’t wait to share my new adventures with my readers.” The new book will be published in autumn 2013, but does not yet have a title.


PENGUIN ACQUIRES NEW RACHEL KHOO


Penguin has acquired world rights in a new book by the Paris-based English chef, writer and broadcaster Rachel Khoo in a “major deal” between David Higham agent Lizzy Kremer and Lindsey Evans at Michael Joseph. The deal continues her relationship with Penguin, which published The Little Paris Kitchen in March 2012 and has sold nearly £1m in the UK this year. Contrary to the report yesterday


Weidenfeld & Nicolson has not acquired two new titles from Khoo, but has instead acquired the licence to republish two books previously published in French by Marabout. Kremer said: “Michael Joseph


continues to publish Rachel brilliantly and to be the perfect publishing partner for her.” Khoo added: “I am delighted to have a new deal with


QR CODES BRING NEWSREELS TO LIFE Hirmer Verlag and its British arm Hirmer Publishing are launching a title with embedded QR codes which will enable readers to watch Pathé newsreels from the 1930s and ’40s. Robin Muir and Becky Conekin’s Eugene Vernier: fashion, femininity & form (see cover right) chronicles the work of photographer Vernier, who prior to a long career at Vogue magazine worked as a cameraman for Pathé News. The wide-ranging newsreels available within the book include coverage of Charles de Gaulle and the Free French in North Africa, the liberation of Paris during the Second World War and a Dynamo Moscow versus Glasgow Rangers football match.


PRE-EMPT FOR SWEDISH BLOGGER Sceptre has pre-empted world


English rights to A Man Called Ove, a début novel by Swedish blogger and columnist Fredrik Backman that has already made the Swedish bestseller lists. Drummond Moir made the acquisition from its publisher Albert Bonniers Forlag, with rights sold in nine other territories so far. The story follows Ove, a widower who is grumpy, lonely and miserable, but also lovable, with the story described as "a heart-warming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship and the ancient art of reversing with a trailer. All of which will change one man, and one community, from their very foundations".


LEGEND PRESS BUYS MAP OF NOWHERE


Legend Press has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in a début novel by Martin Banister, A Map of Nowhere, from Sophie Lambert at Tibor Jones. Commissioning editor Lauren Parsons described it as “poetic, powerful and emotional with intense and realistic relationships”.


TWO BOOK PRE-EMPT TO EBURY


Ebury Press has pre-empted two novels from UK début novelist Phil Viner, comparing his first book, A Half Remembered Death, to


Brown


also deftly satirises the excesses of youth, the fickleness of publishing, and human beings’ inbuilt tendency to self- sabotage.” Brown said he is looking forward to


working with Bickmore: “I think it will be fascinating, because all editors work differently. Hopefully, because I know how the process works from the other side, I’ll be an ideal author.” Canongate will publish in spring


2014.


S J Watson's bestseller Before I Go to Sleep. Fiction editorial director Gillian Green bought UK and Commonwealth rights excluding Canada from Simon Trewin at WME, with Erin Malone in WME's New York office handling US rights. The agency is reporting "heavy interest" in foreign markets.


HACHETTE’S IRISH EYES ARE SMILING


Hachette Ireland and Hodder & Stoughton UK have bought two further books by Irish commercial fiction author Ciara Geraghty, with agent Ger Nichol striking the significant six-figure deal for Ireland, UK and Commonwealth rights, including Canada.


HODDER BREATHES IN NEW DÉBUT


Hodder & Stoughton has acquired a début thriller set in west London in 1952, with publishing director Nick Sayers snapping up the title, Breathe, on the basis of a partial typescript and outline. Sayers bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in the novel by Dominick Donald, with plans to publish in 2014. It follows West Countryman Richard Bourton, a former soldier, who is now a probationary police constable in


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