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Jeanette Winterson makes
the longlist for the first time with Frankissstein, as Cape stablemate Rushdie returns to the prize with Quichotte, 38 years after his Midnight’s Children (Vintage) win. Hamish Hamilton authors
Atwood and Luiselli in the mix as Booker longlist revealed
Margaret Atwood has been longlisted for this year’s £50,000 Booker Prize for The Testaments (Chatto), in the first year the prize has been sponsored by charitable foundation Crankstart. Oyinkan Braithwaite’s
My Sister, The Serial Killer (Atlantic) is the sole début on
the 13-strong longlist, while former Granta publisher Max Porter is in the running with his second book, Lanny (Faber), as is fellow Faber author John Lanchester for The Wall and Goldsmiths Prize-winning author Kevin Barry for Night Boat to Tangier (Canongate).
Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other) and Deborah Levy (The Man Who Saw Everything) are also vying for the prize, and Elif Shafak’s 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Viking) completes PRH’s offering. Mexican-Italian author
Valeria Luiselli pictured makes the list with her first novel written in English, Lost Children Archive (Fourth Estate), and Nigerian novelist Chigozie Obioma is up for An Orchestra of Minorities (Little Brown). Completing the long- list is Ducks, Newburyport by Illinois-born Lucy Ellmann (Galley Beggar).
Rights deal
Scribe bags Mr B bookseller’s début Scribe has snapped up Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights bookseller Jessica Gaitán Johannesson’s début novel in a two-book deal. The indie’s editorial and publicity manager Molly Slight acquired world English-language rights to How We Are Translated, and a second title, from Lisa Baker at Aitken Alexander. Scribe will publish in the UK, Australia and the US in February 2021. Taking place over the course of a week, the novel follows Swedish immigrant Kristin, who plays a Viking in an immersive historical exhi- bition, and is not allowed to speak any English.
BA launches Green Bookselling manifesto Rights deal
Youth violence exposé for Viking Viking has won a nine-way auction to publish Brixton- based youth worker and journalist Ciaran Thapar’s non-fiction début, billed as “the first book to explore the youth violence epidemic”. Assistant editor Connor Brown acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Cut Short: Youth, Violence and Loss in the City from Matthew Turner at Rogers, Coleridge & White. Viking described Cut Short as “a book we desperately need”.
The Booksellers Association is calling on the trade to reduce its environmental impact and take the lead in sustainability and eco-friendly initiatives, and has revealed its green manifesto. “Green Bookselling: A Manifesto for the BA,
Booksellers and the Book Industry” calls on publishers and distributors to phase out single-use cardboard in favour of recyclable materials and to take up environmental commitments, including reviewing both the delivery and “inherently waste- ful” returns processes, and stopping sending out unsolicited book proofs and marketing materials. BA m.d. Meryl Halls said: “It is vital that
everybody in the book industry, from individual booksellers to publishers, and from distributors to printers, makes a concerted effort to reduce their environmental impact. Booksellers can take the lead in their communities, and in the trade—where there is already a high awareness of the chal- lenge—and the green manifesto is designed as a key
step in committing to doing more to be sustainable and ethical. The issue is urgent and inevitable, and so we are particularly pleased to be working with other booksellers associations [overseas] on joint activity and initiatives in this area, to the benefit of all our members.” The BA, which is working with both the
American and Australian BAs on this project, is also committing to holding a green audit, holding training seminars and reviewing existing processes to reduce environmental impact, as well as provid- ing booksellers with recommendations on how to become more environmentally sustainable. Australian BA c.e.o. Robbie Egan added: “Our
colleagues in the UK have led the way and we look to this example with the desire to emulate the initiative, and to build a co-operative approach to improving bookselling and the book industry on both a local and a global scale.” For further details, see
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Clock Dance Anne Tyler Vintage, £8.99, 9781784708597 In hardback, Anne Tyler’s Clock Dance was her second-bestselling book in the format to date, missing out to 2015’s A Spool of Blue Thread by just 499 copies. The paperback edition of the latter went on to become her all-time bestseller, with a leg-up from that year’s Man Booker and Women’s Prize shortlists—so Clock Dance’s paperback has it all to play for. It made its début in the Top 50 last week, shifting 3,998 copies.
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