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Imprint rebrand


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Penguin business imprint Portfolio UK is rebranding as Penguin Business. The change, effective from the end of 2018, will enable the 2010-founded list to more clearly distinguish its offering, editorial director Martina O’Sullivan said.


With an output of 30 titles a year,


Penguin Business seeks “to change the way we work by publishing cuting-edge concepts and practical ideas from leading business think- ers”, including the likes of Seth Godin and Sophia Amoruso. O’Sullivan, along with Penguin Business editors Lydia Yadi and Daniel Crewe, will seek to acquire more international writers as part of the list’s “ambitious plans for growth”. O’Sullivan said: “This rebrand is an opportunit to celebrate our success as Penguin’s business and professional skills- focused imprint. We’ll concentrate


TCM units Sophie Amoruso’s début has sold in the UK


Portfolio to become Penguin Business


EDITORIAL DIRECTOR MARTINA O’SULLIVAN IS LOOKING TO PUBLISH MORE WRITERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD


more on publishing cuting-edge ideas in leadership, entrepreneur- ship, finance and innovation, and narrative business [titles]. We’ll continue to publish leading thinkers from North America, but we’ll be looking to acquire more talent and fresh ideas from around the world.”


The rebranded list’s first three titles will be The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek, Company of One by Paul Jarvis and No Hard Feelings by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy. The “timely” Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, Good Bank, Bad Bank by Starling Bank c.e.o. Anne Boden, and Superthinking, a guide to beter decision-making


by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann, will follow early next year. The list will also start a Penguin Business Experts series of “acces- sible but edgy” introductions to topics driving the future of business, writen by experts in the field. Reporting Katherine Cowdrey


Mudlark has an appetite for Grace Dent


15-way auction


Food and drink columnist Grace Dent’s memoir Hungry has gone to HarperCollins’ new non-fiction imprint, Mudlark, after a “heated” 15-way auction. The “nostalgic food memoir,


FOLLOWS HER NON-FICTION AND YA BOOK WRITING


GRACE DENT’S HUNGRY


and the real story of the British belly” will trace Dent’s journey from 1970s Carlisle to her role as “one of the most recognisable, unique voices on the British food scene”. It covers her feelings about “pretentious restaurants, Michelin stars and eating offal” and how she coped with her


Scouting agency Eccles Fisher is battling a phishing scam attempting to access manuscripts, authors’ details and other confidential mate- rial on the firm’s website. A scammer is sending emails


ECCLES IS URGING OTHERS TO BE VIGILANT


Eccles: agency hit by email scam from someone with ‘insider knowledge’


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purporting to be from the company’s owner, Catherine Eccles, to literary agencies asking for manuscripts. Te emails appear to be from a genuine Eccles account, with her signature, but if the recipient replies, their email goes to a different domain with a slightly altered address. Eccles said the situation was “aggravating” as her contacts could be tricked, and if website access is breached it could


father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Dent, who has written YA titles, recently joined the Guardian as its food and drink critic, after seven years in the same role at the Evening Standard. She said: “I’ve been ruminating over Hungry for some time, so finding such a prestigious home for it is massively exciting.” Harper NonFiction editorial


director Katya Shipster acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown.


expose thousands of manuscripts, and authors’ details. She said no data has leaked, but that the emails that started 10 days ago were now a daily occurrence. Te Bookseller has seen two fake emails: one asking for a typescript, another requesting an Eccles Fisher website password. Eccles said: “I’ve heard of this


happening before, particularly around book fairs. Whoever is writ- ing this has inside knowledge… this is from someone with knowledge of our industry and who we work with. It could be very damaging to our reputation. We want to stop it and encourage others to be vigilant.”


Who’s the Mack? Little, Brown imprint Sphere has announced that Clare Mackintosh’s fourth book, After the End, will be “a novel about what happens after the unthinkable” and offered to the author’s option publish- ers at this year’s Frankfurt. The book will publish in July 2019 in the UK, and tells the story of a couple “facing the most impossible choice they could ever have to make, with devastating consequences”. Mackintosh’s novels have sold in almost 60 territories.


Knowles says oui to illustrated tale


Début Canongate has snapped up a début


from New York-based illustrator David Ouimet. I Go Quiet follows an introverted girl who finds her voice through books and creativity, and has been dubbed “astonishingly beautiful” by Neil Gaiman and “a wonder” by Matt Haig. Canongate senior commissioning editor Hannah Knowles bought world, all- language rights direct from the author. Ouimet has illustrated a number of children’s books.


Antony’s Panda sees Light


TV deal


Production company Magic Light Pictures (MLP) has optioned Steve Antony’s Mr


Panda series, published by Hodder Children’s Books. The deal was brokered by senior licensing manager Karen Lawler and Michael Rose, joint-m.d. at MLP, which is best known for its adaptations of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s books. MLP is planning on creating a Mr Panda animation, and will handle merchandising rights during the option period.


Oneworld digs Deep to sign race science exposé Oneworld will publish a book on the “unwelcome” revival of race science by Dr Gavin Evans, an anti-apartheid activist and lecturer at Birkbeck College, London. Senior commissioning editor Alex Christofi bought world rights from Andrew Lownie to Skin Deep: Journeys in the Controversial New Science of Race, which tackles race- based studies of intelligence, laying out the latest discoveries in genetics, palaeontology, archaeology and anthropology.


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