News Suff olk coastal town to get a fl avour of Brazil FESTIVALS
FLIP FESTIVAL COMES TO BRITAIN Tom Tivnan
Former Bloomsbury editorial director Liz Calder (pictured) is launching a UK version of FLIP (Festa Literária Internaçional de Paraty), the Brazil- based literary and cultural festival she and her husband, former Bookseller editor Louis Baum, co-founded and have run for the past 10 years. FLIPSIDE will take place from the
4th to 6th October this year, held at Snape Maltings, the arts venue and concert hall in Aldeburgh, Suff olk. Calder said: “We started FLIP because while people did know the usual
S&S RAISES CAIN
Thriller writer Chelsea Cain (right) has been snapped up by Simon & Schuster in a global deal for the rights to three books. Cain was previously published by Pan Macmillan in the UK and St Martin’s Press in the US. The new deal with S&S has been struck by Marysue Rucci at S&S US, Louise Burke at Pocket, Maxine Hitchcock at S&S UK and agent Joy Harris.
The fi rst two books will launch a new series featuring Kick Lannigan who was
abducted as a child and is now searching for other missing children as a young adult. The third book will continue in Cain’s bestselling Archie Sheridan/ Gretchen Lowell series.
GUARDIAN AND FABER LAUNCH NEW IMPRINT
Faber & Faber has partnered with the Guardian newspaper to create a new publishing imprint.
Guardian Faber, as the imprint will be called, will focus on a range of non-fi ction titles, with books coming both from the Guardian News & Media group’s own writers, and other authors. It aims to commission up to 20 new non-fi ction works each year.
Guardian Books titles have previously been distributed through Random House division Cornerstone. However, Faber will now take over sales
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and distribution with immediate eff ect, as well as handling all foreign rights. Stephen Page, Faber publisher and c.e.o., said: “T is publishing business will have at its heart a unique combination of access to brilliant writers and copyrights alongside a direct conversation with readers through the Guardian’s extraordinary relationship with tens of millions of consumers worldwide.”
T e publishing team will be made up of Sara Montgomery, the head of Guardian Books, Katie Roden, the Guardian Books publisher, and Julian Loose, publisher for arts and non-fi ction at Faber. A new commissioning editor for Guardian Faber will also be appointed. Forthcoming titles from the new imprint include Facts are Sacred by Simon Rogers and Undercover by Guardian reporters Paul Lewis and Rob Evans.
already scheduled, however, is a tribute to the poet and lyricist Vinicius de Moraes and composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, who together created Bossa Nova. FLIPSIDE is funded by a variety of
things about Brazil—football, samba, etc—we wanted to spread the word about its rich literary tradition.” Calder said the programme was still
in the planning stages and would be disclosed in May, but FLIPSIDE would feature a number of Brazilian writers, artists and musicians, alongside a number of UK-based authors. One event
bodies including Arts Council England, Brazil’s Biblioteca Naçional, the British Council and Granta. Calder said there were plans to grow FLIPSIDE. She added: “T is is not a one-off , but it will be a permanent addition to Britain’s literary festival scene. In future years, we are hoping to expand it, to include writers from other Latin American countries.” To fi nd out more about FLIPSIDE,
visit the Brazil collective stand (Y405) or www.fl
ipsidefestival.co.uk.
NEWS IN BRIEF
HC GRABS BURNABLE BOOK HarperFiction has signed two historical thrillers set during the reign of Richard II from Universty of Virginia medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger. A Burnable Book, along with an as-yet-untitled second novel, follow a fi ctionalised version of the poet John Gower, a friend of Geoff rey Chaucer who turns to trading information to survive in a treacherous age. Julia Wisdom, crime and thriller publisher, acquired UK and commonwealth rights from Helen Heller at the Helen Heller Agency. Morrow has bought US rights for the fi rst title.
ZEPHANIAH INKED BY HOT KEY
Hot Key Books has acquired a new children’s novel by writer and dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah, his fi rst for seven years. The book is set against London’s summer riots of 2011, and tells how one teenage boy’s idealism is twisted by those around him who are determined to commit acts of terror. Editor-at-large Emma Matthewson bought UK and Commonwealth rights in the title, Terror Kid, from Jodie Marsh at United Agents.
OUP LAUNCHES ELT APP
For the fi rst time Oxford University Press is releasing an app that enables English language learners to download individual coursebooks onto their mobile devices. Oxford Learner’s Bookshelf, launched today (15th April) and available on Apple and Android platforms, is a free app that enables students to install individual e-books from OUP’s English language teaching range using access codes issued by learning institutions. The enhanced e-books contain video, audio, pronunciation practice modules, and have the ability to send homework to teachers.
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