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ROSENBLOOM’S SCRIBE GOES ON UK SPENDING SPREE Tom Tivnan


Henry Rosenbloom, the founder and publisher of Australian independent Scribe, has made a number of book fair acquisitions for his new British arm, Scribe UK, including Pulitzer Prize- winner David Finkel’s T ank You for Your Service, which will be made into a fi lm by Steven Spielberg. Finkel’s book is a follow-up to 2007’s


T e Good Soldier, a memoir of being embedded with soldiers in Iraq. T ank


You for Your Service tackles Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of soldiers, which Rosenbloom calls a “searing account of the modern day consequences of war”. Rosenbloom bought Commonwealth and UK rights from Devon Mazzone from FSH. Scribe will publish in 2014. Rosenbloom also bagged UK and


Commonwealth rights for another Pulitzer Prize-winner’s book, New York Times journalist Mark Mazzetti. His title, T e Way of the Knife, deals with the transformation of the CIA and


America’s special forces operations, with fi ghting done less on the battlefi eld and more in hunting down terrorist cells in “the world’s dark places”. Rosenbloom also bought UK and


Commonwealth rights from Blue Rider to Gary Greenburg’s T e Book of Woe, an “explosive critique and exposé” of the psychiatrist’s bible the DSM. Finally, he also snapped up UK and Commonwealth rights to Mark Mulholland’s Irish-set novel A Mad and Wonderful T ing from Laura Susijn at the Susijn Agency.


THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO FOR EGMONT


Egmont has signed a worldwide deal to publish the classic Thunderbirds comic strips, featuring Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s creations including Stingray, Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet. The deal was signed with ITV Studios Global Entertainment, which owns the classic brands. The fi rst titles to be published will be the original 1960s and 1970s Thunderbirds strips, featuring characters including millionaire Jeff Tracy, scientifi c genius Brains and Lady Penelope, which Egmont will release in October as e-books and in special collectable print editions. The Thunderbirds strips are based on the popular TV show which fi rst went on air in 1965, with Egmont intending to mark the 50th anniversary of the brand in 2015.


RIGHTS IN BRIEF


GIRLS HAVE GONE TO ORION Orion has acquired a non-fi ction title, Girls Will Be Girls, a book by academic Dr Emer O’Toole on how women have “stopped acting female”, following a “hotly contested” auction. Editorial director, Orion non-fi ction, Jane Sturrock bought British Commonwealth rights excluding Canada from Juliet Pickering at Blake Friedmann for Girls Will Be Girls and one other. Girls Will Be Girls will be published on 17th April 2014.


FOXY COXY MEMOIR TO HC HarperCollins has signed an autobiography from rock star turned


physicist Brian Cox, as well as a new science title provisionally entitled The Private Life of the Atom. The publisher will release the books in English throughout the world, following a joint deal with HCUK, US, Australia and New Zealand through Diane Banks, acting on behalf of Sue Ryder Associates.


LIONS TALE FROM DAWSON Headline’s non-fi ction publishing director Jonathan Taylor has acquired world rights to Lions Tales, a book of rugby stories and folklore by the former


England World Cup winning rugby scrum-half and now BBC broadcaster


Matt Dawson (below left) , from Richard Thompson, chairman of the M&C Saatchi Merlin agency. The book will be published in hardback and e-book on 26th September, following the British and Irish Lions tour of Australia this summer.


W&N IN TRIPLE COOKERY SWOOP . . . Amanda Harris, Orion’s publishing director for non-fi ction, has acquired three cookery titles to be published in the autumn and 2014. Two deals were for world rights done by Martine Carter at Sauce Management: Fiona Cairns, whose company baked the wedding cake for Prince William and Kate Middleton, will write Seasonal Baking; while chef Druv Baker’s Spice: Layers of Flavour, is a guide on


how to blend spices. Meanwhile, Harris also bought world rights to cookery writer and baker Rose Prince’s The Pocket Bakery direct from the author.


. . . WHILE PREFACE GOES CHINESE Trevor Dolby, Preface publisher, has signed a deal for world rights to a cookery book from Mr Peng the owner of Hunan, one of London’s most celebrated Chinese restaurants. Hunan: Mr Peng’s Food From the Heart, will be published in spring 2014 and has recipes from the restaurant—which doesn’t have a menu—but diners tell Mr Peng what foods they don’t want, and he prepares the rest. The deal was done direct with the author.


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