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of 13 books “that inspire devotion”. Titles include Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay, Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, Don DeLillo’s White Noise, Jon Ronson’s So... You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Room by Emma Donoghue and A House for Mr Biswas by V S Naipaul. Picador will also welcome
Picador Collection set to spotlight imprint’s hits in 2022
Picador is launching a paper- back series bringing together titles from across its 50-year history, including landmark novels like Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho and Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life. The Picador Collection,
featuring the imprint’s white
spines, will combine “the gravitas of a modern classics list with the eccentric, boundary-pushing spirit of cult paperback publishing”. Launching in February
2022 to mark the imprint’s 50th anniversary, the collec- tion will initially consist
back Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage, a “provoca- tive and gripping adventure” set on a slaving ship; the title won the 1990 National Book Award and was first published by Picador in the UK in 1991. Planned for later in 2022
include the “seminal work of trans literature” Nevada by Imogen Binnie, titles by Jamaica Kincaid and spotlights on authors like Clive James and Oliver Sacks. It will also publish themed mini-collections, lost classics and cult books.
Rights deal
Tinder bags De Waal’s Without Warning Tinder Press has landed Kit de Waal’s memoir about growing up mixed race in Birmingham in the 1960s and ’70s, which she described as “the story I always wanted to tell”. Publisher Mary-Anne Harrington acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Jo Unwin at JULA. Without Warning and Only Sometimes will be published on 18th August 2022. Harrington said: “This is writing that just leaps off the page and I know it’s going to bring Kit to a new and even wider readership.”
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Rights deal
Bodley Head seals Chigudu’s memoir The Bodley Head has won a 12-way auction for Oxford University associ- ate professor and Rhodes Must Fall co-founder Simukai Chigudu’s “dramatic” memoir. UK and Commonwealth rights for When Will We Be Free? were sold to Will Hammond, deputy publishing director, by Carrie Plitt of Felicity Bryan Associates. Published in 2024, the memoir tells the “dramatic and moving story of a family and a son in search of the end of empire”.
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Faber and Wonderbly launch Pagesmith
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aber and Wonderbly have joined forces to create a new digital platform
offering readers personalised poetry collections. Created in partnership with
Wonderbly Studios, Pagesmith will enable readers to choose from eight themes—love, loss, companionship, family, nature, wellbeing, new horizons and women’s voices—to curate their selection. Customers can add a
dedication, pick a cover and choose their own title. The custom-made book will then be printed on demand as a hardback and shipped straight to the recipient’s door. Stephen Page, Faber’s execu-
tive chair, said: “For many years at Faber we have been exploring ways to use technology to reach readers in new ways with
Conford replaces RH Business with Cornerstone Press
literary work, leading to such innovations as The Waste Land app and our partnership with Bloomsbury on Drama Online. Meeting Asi [Sharabi, co-founder and c.e.o. of Wonderbly] and his team, we knew we had found a brilliant partner in pursuing an ambitious, new, high-quality way for readers to give poetry to others. The result is Pagesmith, which we are so proud to be launching today, and which we look forward to evolving as one of the most innovative digital platforms in the world.” The platform launches with
a repository of around 160 poems, featuring work by Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Derek Walcott, Gwendolyn Brooks and Rainer Maria Rilke, plus contemporary work from Simon Armitage, Mary Jean Chan and Carol Ann Duffy.
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The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk Penguin, £10.99, 9780141978611 TikTok has boosted YA fiction up the Children’s charts (witness Adam Silvera’s They Both Die at the End once again atop the Children’s & YA Fiction top 20) and romance, particularly LGBTQ+ romance, up the Adult Fiction charts (see Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles and Taylor Reid Jenkins’ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo). Now it’s non-fiction’s turn. The 2015 edition of Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score rocketed into the Top 50 last week, improving 253% in volume week on week, as the hashtag based on the book’s title racked up over 2.7 million views on the social media platform.
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