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RIGHTS DEALS NEWS LBF Awards herald excellence BY LISA CAMPBELL VIV & BARKER TO FABER
Faber creative director Lee Brackstone has secured world language rights to Harry Barker’s début, Anatomy of a Soldier, from Matthew Hamilton at Aitken Alexander. The novel is about the rehabilitation of a soldier, told by 45 narrators. Rights have sold in the US (Knopf), France, Germany, Holland, Italy and Spain. Brackstone also bought UK and Commonwealth rights to the sequel to Viv Albertine’s memoir Clothes Clothes Clothes, Music Music Music, Boys Boys Boys, which Faber published in 2014. The deal was struck with RCW’s Georgia Garrett; Faber will publish in 2016.
MB’S HOME SWEET ROME
Octopus imprint Mitchell Beazley has acquired a cookbook on the culinary delights of Rome by food blogger Eleonora Galasso. Octopus senior commissioning editor Eleanor Maxfield pre-empted world rights from Federica Leonardis at Rogers, Coleridge & White. The title, “an off-the-beaten-track gastronomic itinerary of Rome”, will be published in hardback in spring 2016.
ORCHARD BEARS FRUIT
Orchard Books has acquired a new YA trilogy by Teri Terry, having recently published her Slated series. Terry’s Dark Matter books centre around 16-year-old Shay during a deadly epidemic. Megan Larkin, publishing director for Orchard Books, brokered the deal for world rights with Caroline Sheldon at the Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency. The first book is scheduled for February 2017.
PICADOR SIGNS EVERYONE
Picador publisher Paul Baggaley has bought world English-language rights to Everyone is Watching, by UEA creative writing graduate Megan Bradbury, from Sophie Lambert at Conville & Walsh. To be published in summer 2016, the novel reimagines New York through the eyes of Walt Whitman, Robert Moses, Robert Mapplethorpe and Edmund White.
Croatian publisher Fraktura took home The Bookseller International Adult Trade Publisher Award, while SAGE bagged Best International Academic and Professional Publisher last night (14th April) at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards, run in association with the Publishers Association. Sweden’s Mojang, the creator
of Minecraft, won the award for Best Use of IP Across Multiple Media Platforms, while Belgium’s Clavis Publishing bagged Best International Trade Children’s and Young Adult Publisher. The UK won two awards: Daniel Hahn of the British Centre for Literary Translation won the Mexico Market Focus Outstanding
Contribution Award; and Cambridge University Press claimed the Accessible Books Consortium Award for Accessible Publishing. Other winners included: German agent Nicole Witt from Literarische Agentur Mertin Inh, who won the International Literary Agent award; the US Library for All, which won The International Education Initiatives
Prize; Belgium’s Uigeverij Van In, won The International Educational Learning Resources Award; the Nigerian Publishers Association, which won The Publishers Association Copyright Protection Award; Sharjah International Book Fair, which won the Market Focus Achievement Award; and the Netherlands’ BooXtream, which won The Publishers Weekly International Book Industry Technology Supplier prize. LBF director Jacks Thomas
(pictured) said: “In the past few years, we have seen the rise and rise of international publishing and it is brilliant to see this celebrated. Each one of our winners brings something special to the industry: we are proud to give them the recognition they deserve.”
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Sporting hat-trick for Headline
Headline has acquired books by former cricketer Phil Tufnell, ex- boxer Ricky Hatton and rugby union player Adam Jones. Non-fiction publishing director Jonathan Taylor was behind the trio of acquisitions. Tufnell will write a “life-affirming” memoir, Where Am I? My Autobiography (to be published 13th August 2015), covering his post-cricket career. World English-language rights were bought from Paragon Sports Management m.d. Mike Martin. Hatton will reflect on his five fights in Las Vegas—including fight negotiations, trash-talking promotional tours and “epic post-fight benders”—in Vegas Tales (19th May 2015). World rights were bought from David Riding of MBA Literary Agents and Hatton’s manager, Paul Speak. UK and Commonwealth rights were acquired for Jones’ Bomb: My Autobiography from Caroline Ayling, commercial director of Esportif International. Jones, who is nicknamed “Bomb”, has won 95 caps for Wales. The book will be published on 10th September 2015.
Facebook urges collaboration
At yesterday’s LBF seminar “Creativity, the Internet and Politics”, Facebook’s UK policy director Simon Milner urged publishers to work with tech platforms to prevent a lack of understanding “pushing the two industries into loggerheads”. He said: “[European policymakers] reach for the regulatory toolkit and believe there is a zero-sum game being played out between technology platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, and the publishing industry.”
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