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Bookouture since 2019, will oversee the creation of a new science fiction and fantasy imprint as well as continuing to manage one of Bookouture’s four fiction editorial teams. Tross will continue to report to Bookouture m.d. Jenny Geras. The publisher’s German
Bookouture rings changes with expansion into German market
Bookouture has made a number of editorial promotions and hires aimed at consolidating its commercial fiction list and facilitating its expansion into the German market. Christina Demosthenous
above, who joined in 2017 as commissioning editor before becoming associate publisher in 2019, has been
named publishing director. In her new role she has
the additional remit of overseeing intellectual property creation and content, also having greater input into copywriting across the editorial team. She continues to report
to Ruth Tross, who has been promoted to publisher. Tross, who has been with
presence, following rights and translations director Peta Nightingale’s establishment of Bookouture Deutschland last year, is also expanding, with Louisa Pagel joining in June as publishing manager. Pagel has been with
Germany’s Ullstein for eight years and is currently an editorial director overseeing three commercial fiction lists. Based full-time in Berlin, she will report to Nightingale and manage scheduling and publishing across the Bookouture Deutschland list.
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Legend signs deal for Engman’s Femicide Legend Press has landed Femicide, the “compulsive” novel from Pascal Engman above, in a three-book deal. Cari Rosen, commissioning editor, acquired world English rights, excluding audio, from Steve White at the Nordin Agency in Sweden. Out on 6th October, the novel, along with two later titles, follows Detective Inspector Vanessa Frank, a recent addition to the Stockholm murder squad. Femicide has already sold more than 100,000 copies in Sweden, according to the publisher, and rights for the series have been sold in 19 languages.
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Millwood Hargrave double for Picador Picador has netted two more novels by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Sophie Jonathan, editorial director, acquired UK and Commonwealth print, digital and audio rights for The White Room and The Spite Fence from Hellie Ogden at Janklow & Nesbit. Hargrave’s second novel for adults, The Dance Tree, will be published by Picador in May 2022. Jonathan said: “Kiran is an author who is going from strength to strength.”
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Waterstones in drive to raise £1m for Ukraine
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aterstones has joined with publishers and authors in a bid to
raise £1m for Ukraine. The Read for Ukraine
campaign will see the bookseller offer a curated selection of books, donated by publishers and their authors, with 100% of sales donated to Oxfam’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. The campaign includes a
dedicated table in the front of every one of the retailer’s bookshops, including all Hatchards, Hodges Figgis, Foyles and Blackwell’s branches, and will be hosted online. Waterstones said its appeal
for book donations was “answered with goodwill and great generosity by authors and publishers” and expects the campaign to run “for some months”, with the book
Seventy Big Jubilee Read choices revealed
selection regularly reviewed and refreshed. The retailer will also work
with Vintage to offer a special charity edition of Andrey Kurkov’s Death and the Penguin (Vintage Classics), available from the week commencing 24th April. Vintage and Waterstones will jointly donate £10 for every copy sold to the appeal. James Daunt left,
Waterstones m.d., said: “We are very proud as booksellers to be able to work with authors and publishers to make this collective contribution to help the humanitarian effort to support those affected by the crisis in Ukraine. We thank the authors and publishers for their generosity. This is a compelling selection of books, with every penny from their sale going to support this urgent work.”
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Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose Dav Pilkey Scholastic, £10.99, 9781338801941 The effect of the school holidays on the book charts was obvious last week—kids’ books rose 16% in volume year on year against a market- wide 3.8% slump. While Easter-themed picture books dominated the Pre-school charts, Dav Pilkey’s newest Cat Kid Comic Club title, On Purpose, clawed into the Children’s & YA Fiction number one.
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