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NEWS NEWS / IN BRIEF
NEWS IN BRIEF NEWS Brew and Wong right on song BY KATHERINE COWDREY Seeger with MacColl FABER PEGS FIRST TIMER
Faber is to publish the memoir of 81-year-old musician Peggy Seeger in 2018. The publisher acquired world all-language rights to First Time Ever: A Memoir from Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown. Seeger is “one of folk music’s most influential artists [having] spearheaded the 1960s folk revival” with her late partner Ewan MacColl. Many of Seeger’s songs, such as “I’m Gonna be an Engineer” and “Carry Greenham Home”, have become synonymous with various women’s rights movements and campaigns.
ELGAR’S WRITE NOTES
Sphere editorial director Lucy Malagoni has acquired world rights to début psychological thriller If You Knew Her by Emily Elgar, from Nelle Andrew at PFD. Little, Brown’s rights team sealed a “substantial” five- figure deal for German rights after a “heated” auction; had a five-figure opening offer in France; sold Estonian rights within 24 hours of submission; and had a five-figure pre-empt for Brazilian rights yesterday at the fair.
THE HOLE SHEBANG
A new, consumer-facing Jo Nesbo newsletter was among the initiatives announced at a gathering of all 51 of the writer’s publishers at yesterday’s fair. The English-language newsletter, a collaboration between PRH divisions in the UK, US and Canada, will launch in January. Nesbo’s 11th Harry Hole thriller, The Thirst, will launch in English- language territories in May 2017. A film adaptation of The Snowman is due in the UK in October, with five other films based on Nesbo titles in the works, as well as a TV series.
BODY BAGGED BY PAVILION
Pavilion has acquired a new wellbeing title by health expert and celebrity trainer James Duigan. Publishing director Katie Cowan acquired world rights to James Duigan’s Bodyism Blueprint from Adrian Sington at Kruger Cowne. Extolling his “clean and lean” philosophy, the title will be published by Pavilion in July 2017.
Octopus imprint Mitchell Beazley has signed the first title from the founders of craft beer brand BrewDog as well as a food book from BBC presenter James Wong. Group publishing director Denise
Bates snapped up world rights to BrewDog: Craft Beer for the People from James Watt and Martin Dickie. The deal was conducted by Ben Clark at Lucas Alexander Whitley. Watt and Dickie founded the
Aberdeenshire-based brewery in 2007, when both were 24. BrewDog expanded rapidly, in part due to its youth-focused marketing of products such as its signature Punk IPA, labelling it a “post-punk, apocalyptic motherfucker of a craft brewery” while urging its consumers to “ride towards anarchy”. The book, which will “explain craft beer to the widest possible
Watt
audience”, will be published in the UK in October 2017. Watt said: “Our mission has always been to make other people as passionate about great craft beer as we are. This book will be the embodiment of this mission, conveying all that we adore about amazing beer from us and our brewing peers internationally.” Watt has previously had a management title, Business for Punks, published by Penguin’s Portfolio imprint. Meanwhile, Octopus publisher Alison Starling snapped up world
PRH PAYS FLIP SERVICE Wong
rights for broadcaster James Wong’s How to Eat Better from James Wills at Watson Little. The title, “a straight- talking scientist’s guide to making everyday foods far healthier—and tastier”, will be published in April 2017. Wong is an ethnobiologist who came to fame with his 2009 BBC series “Grow Your Own Drugs”, a gardening programme about natural remedies. The tie-in book, published by Collins, was a runaway hit, selling more than 100,000 units through BookScan UK.
Penguin Random House UK is launching an online book recommendation service as part of a Christmas campaign to help customers pick the perfect gift for their loved ones. Penguin Flipper enables visitors to use filters, such as the age and personality of the intended recipient, to navigate PRH’s range of physical adult, YA and children’s titles and “choose the right books as gifts”. The tool will go live on Monday (24th October). PRH said the service was a response to demands made through its weekly #AskPenguin Twitter feature for personalised book recommendations, of which 2,000 have been requested since #AskPenguin launched in August. Flipper will be supported by a digital ad campaign, and pop-ups at a number of UK shopping centres to give shoppers the chance to “flip” in person.
FutureBook Awards shortlists unveiled
More than 40 companies, individuals and products will contest eight different categories at this year’s FutureBook Awards, with the shortlists announced last night (20th October) at the fair. The winners will be announced at the FutureBook Conference, Europe’s largest digital publishing event, which takes place on 2nd December in London. Battling it out for the coveted Digital Leader
of the Year Award are Sara Lloyd, digital and communications director at Pan Macmillan; Oliver Rhodes, founder and m.d. of Bookouture; Jacob Cockcroft, co-founder of The Pigeonhole; Emmanuel
Nataf, founder of Reedsy; and Emma Barnes, founder and c.e.o. of Bibliocloud. In total, more than 100 submissions were received for this year’s awards, a record number. Of the eight shortlists, Philip Jones, editor of The Bookseller and programme director for FutureBook, said: “Publishing has shown once again how it rises to the challenges set by digitisation and progress, with ingenuity, dedication and fortitude. The range and number of submissions this year made the task of shortlisting doubly difficult.” For more information and to see the shortlists in full, visit:
http://bit.ly/2e9iT2r.
21.10.16
www.thebookseller.com
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