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CHAIN REACTION FOR OLSSON’S LBF DÉBUT


Charlotte Williams


Swedish thriller Chain of Events by scriptwriter Fredrik T Olsson has attracted a rush of attention at the fair, attracting eight pre-empt deals around the world, with fi lm rights already optioned by Warner Bros. Represented by agent Jonas


Axelsson, who was previously a publisher at Albert Bonnier Forlag and who launched his agency Partners in Stories yesterday at the fair, the début is the fi rst in a series. It features a washed-up former military cryptologist who gets pulled into an international conspiracy involving DNA sequencing and a new global pandemic. In the UK, Ed Wood at Little, Brown


RIGHTS IN BRIEF


TEEN DREAM FOR PAN MAC Pan Macmillan Children’s has acquired world rights in two teen novels by début author Tom Hoyle. Publishing director Venetia Gosling secured rights in the “fast-paced thriller” Thirteen, and one other, from Gillie Russell at Aitken Alexander Associates. Pan Mac will publish in spring 2014, with the sequel to follow later that year.


HALLETT GETS ALL THE HONEY Saltyard Books has bought two cookbooks from Fitzrovia restaurant Honey & Co, following an intense four-way auction. Publisher Elizabeth Hallett bought world rights in the books from Luigi Bonomi at LBA, and will publish the fi rst book, The Honey & Co Cookbook, by the restaurant’s owners, husband-and-


imprint Sphere acquired world English rights in Chain of Events and one other book by Olsson, making a pre-empt based on a 74-page sample of the fi rst novel less than 24 hours after submission. LB will also publish in the US, with Laura Tisdel editing. Sphere will release Chain of Events in late 2014. Meanwhile, further international


territories have been pre-empting since Friday, with rights now sold to Tammi in Finland; Hr Ferdinand in Denmark; Piper Verlag in Germany; Luitingh- Sijthoff in Holland; Sperling & Kupfer in Italy; Modan in Israel; and Companhia das Letras in Brazil. Speaking from LBF, Axelsson said he


anticipated further deals to be closed shortly in France, Spain, Japan, Greece and Turkey.


wife Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer, in summer 2014.


BGT WINNER BOOK/FILM TO WEINSTEIN Weinstein Books has acquired world rights to publish a memoir of shop assistant turned classical music sensation, and 2007 “Britain’s Got Talent” winner, Paul Potts. The book, One Chance: A Memoir, will launch globally in the autumn to coincide with a Weinstein Company-produced biopic of Potts, starring James Corden as Potts, with a cast including Julie Walters, Mackenzie Crook and Colm Meany.


SMALL TOWN DÉBUT TO HEINEMANN William Heinemann has snapped up a US début set in the small towns of Montana by Smith Henderson, with plans to publish in autumn 2014. Publisher Jason Arthur acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to Fourth of July


Creek by Henderson from Arabella Stein of Abner Stein. It features Pete, a social worker in the Department of Family Services, who becomes involved in the fate of a young boy whose family lives rough. Arthur called it “simply the best US début I’ve read in some time”.


CHATTO CATCHES CAUGHT Chatto & Windus has acquired Caught, “a novel of bravado and betrayal” by Canadian author Lisa Moore. Her previous book, February, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Publishing director Clara Farmer and senior editor Juliet Brooke bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada to be published in March 2014.


ME BOOKS IN DEAL WITH HC Me Books, the digital bookshop for children, has signed a deal with HarperCollins, to add its picture


OURSELVES GOES TO FOURTH ESTATE Début novel We Are Not Ourselves by US author Matthew Thomas


(pictured) has been sold to Fourth Estate for a six-fi gure sum after a seven-way auction. It follows a seven-fi gure deal for North American rights late last week. Editorial director Clare Reihill bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in the title from co-agent Elizabeth Sheinkman at WME London, with the auction going to best bids on Monday (15th), the opening day of LBF.


Last Thursday, Simon & Schuster US bought North American rights for a seven-fi gure sum following a two-day auction conducted by the author’s agent, WME New York agent Bill Clegg. The title is described as a “heartbreaking debut”, and follows Eileen, raised in Queens in the 1940s by an alcoholic mother and a union-wage father, as she falls in love with a young scientist and starts a family with him. However, as he develops early-onset


Alzhiemer’s she and her son are left to “grapple with a husband and a father who is, beyond their control, fading away”.


WME has received fi ve off ers for


German rights in the title, as well as off ers in from publishers in Italy, Holland and France, with


Sheinkman saying she anticipates further deals to be concluded over the course of the week.


books to HC’s range. All the titles will feature new Me Books narration, with titles including Martha and the Bunny Brothers: I Heart School by Clara Vulliamy, and Lettice the Dancing Rabbit by Mandy Stanley to be released during 2013. HC joins a slew of publishers including Penguin, Bloomsbury, Andersen, Scholastic, Hachette Children’s Books, Tate Publishing, Egmont and Templar in partnering with the digital store. Me Books’ US and Canada launch is scheduled for May 2013.


STOP SMOKING WITH ORION Orion has acquired The Freedom Formula: A Revolutionary Way to Stop Smoking by Professor Robert West, and will publish in January 2014. Editorial director of non-fi ction Jane Sturrock bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Jon Elek at A M Heath at United Agents in the title, written with Chris Smyth.


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