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SCANDI CRIME QUARTET TO HEADLINE Headline has signed four novels by Norwegian psychiatrist turned crime writer Torkil Damhaug. Publishing director Imogen Taylor and editor Flora Rees signed world English language rights in a deal with David Miller at Rogers Coleridge & White on behalf of Kristin Weholt of the Cappelen Damm Agency. Headline plans to publish the four books across 2014 and 2015.


FORMER GUNNER BERGKAMP TO S&S Simon & Schuster will publish a “compellingly told” memoir by former Arsenal footballer turned Ajax assistant manager Dennis Bergkamp next year. S&S head of


sport Ian Marshall signed UK & Commonwealth rights to Stillness and Speed: My Story through Dutch Media via David Luxton of David Luxton Associates.


SLATER SIGNS WITH FOURTH ESTATE Louise Haines, head of non-fiction at Fourth Estate, has bought world rights in two new books by food writer Nigel Slater in a deal concluded with Araminta Whitley of LAW. The first, Eat: A Little Book of Fast Food, will be published in September.


HAMISH HAMILTON NABS LEVY Simon Prosser has bought UK and commonwealth rights to the next novel from Man Booker Prize- shortlisted author Deborah Levy. Hot Milk will be published in 2015, while three of her early novels will also be reissued. Rights were acquired from Victoria Hobbs at A M Heath. Prosser also bought UK and commonwealth rights to a new book, Landmarks, from Man Booker Prize chairman and Cambridge fellow Robert Macfarlane.


PICADOR GOES BIG FOR MINIATURIST Charlotte Williams


Picador has seen off competition from 11 other publishers to win a fiercely contested six-figure, pre-fair auction, acquiring UK and Commonwealth rights in historical fiction début Te Miniaturist by Jessie Burton. Editorial director Francesca Main


signed the deal with Juliet Mushens at Te Agency Group, after the contest went to best bids, and the title will be a super-lead launch for Picador in July 2014.


Te book has caused a stir worldwide


just ahead of the fair, with US rights acquired in a similarly fierce six-figure auction by Lee Boudreaux at HarperCollins imprint Ecco. Meanwhile, HC Canada bought


Canadian rights, with Intrinseca pre- empted in Brazil, Salamandra pre- empting in Spain, and auctions currently taking place in Germany, Italy, France, Portugal, Serbia and Holland, with offers in Turkey and Norway, and more deals expected during LBF. Set in 17th-century Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age, Te


CORONET BUYS BRIAN WILSON’S HELL Hodder imprint Coronet has snapped up the memoir of pop legend and Beach Boys founder and chief songwriter Brian Wilson (pictured) after a “major pre-empt”. Publisher Mark Booth acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Jonathan Conway, head of the UK Literary Division of The Agency Group, on behalf of Marc Gerald, head of the US Literary Division of the Agency Group. To Hell and Back, which Wilson will write with Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine, will publish in autumn 2015. Booth said: “This is a landmark book. Brian Wilson is a genius, who gave popular music a whole new language, and his life is one of the great stories of To Hell and Back. He came back and changed everything.”


DUNMORE SWITCHES TO HUTCHINSON


Orange Prize- winner Helen Dunmore left is moving from Penguin to Hutchinson, with C o r n e r s t o n e publisher Selina Walker acquiring her next two books.


Walker bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding


Canada, in two novels by Dunmore from Caradoc King of A P Watt at United Agents. Te first, Te Lie, is set during and just after the First World War. It tells the story of the relationship between two young men from very different backgrounds, one of whom is killed in France. Walker said: “Te Lie is a heart-


wrenching story about love, memory and loss, about growing up in Cornwall in the early 20th century, about the


horrors of war on the Western Front as well as its traumatic aftermath.” Dunmore has published nine novels


with Penguin, including the Orange Prize-winning A Spell of Winter, and her 2010 novel Te Betrayal which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2012, Cornerstone’s Hammer


imprint published Dunmore’s novella Te Greatcoat, in what was then a one-off in Hammer’s series of horror novellas.


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Miniaturist tells the story of 18-year-old Nella, newly married to wealthy merchant Johannes. Tough distant, he sends her an exact miniature replica of their home as a wedding gift. Unnerving in its precise attention to detail, Nella begins to fear for every member of the household as escalating real-life dramas are mirrored in miniature form. Burton was born in south London


in 1982, and has worked as an actress. She was one of the inaugural students on the Curtis Brown Creative Writing course.


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