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Frankfurt Book Fair 2018 The headlines


Award short- listed


Glastonbury Festival raises the bar for Trapeze A host of big names—including several past headliners—have contributed to the official book celebrating the 50th anniversary of Glastonbury Festival. Alongside co-authors Michael and Emily Eavis, who run the festival, stars includ- ing Jay-Z, Dolly Parton, Chris Martin and Noel Gallagher have written original pieces for the book, which will be published in October 2019. World rights to the book were snapped up by Trapeze in April.


T-Rex chronicles hug quest Chronicle has acquired two picture books from author Jonathan Stutzman and illustrator Jay Fleck. The first, Tiny T-Rex and the Impossible Hug, follows a diminutive but determined T-Rex as he tackles obstacles in his quest to learn how to hug. World rights were acquired by Kelli Chipponeri at Chronicle from Larissa Helena at Pippin Properties, who negotiated the deal on behalf of Elena Giovinazzo. Kirsten Hall at Catbird Productions represented the illustrator.


FutureBook Awards shortlists revealed


The shortlists for the 2018 FutureBook Awards were revealed at the Frankfurt Book Fair yesterday, with Penguin Random House up for four gongs, HarperCollins in line for three and Amazon Publishing for two.


The six projects in the running for FutureBook of the Year include two audiobooks—Sylvain Neuvel’s Only Human (PRH) and Sir David Atenborough’s Life on Earth (HC)—as well as one print book with integrated audio, Keaton Henson’s The Tallowmere Annual (Faber Music) and a medley of audio, art and animation in short story anthology The Real Thing (Amazon Publishing). Also shortlisted are Japhet Asher’s The Ghostkeeper’s Journal and Field Guide (Carlton Books), and WatAdventure in Australia (WatAdventure). Up for FutureBook Campaign of the Year are Lily Allen’s My Thoughts


THE FUTUREBOOK AWARDS WILL BE PRESENTED ON 30TH NOVEMBER IN LONDON


Exactly (Bonnier Books), The Retreat by Mark Edwards (Amazon Publishing), HC Children’s StoryCastle Google Assistant app, Zeb Soanes and James Mayhew’s Gaspard the Fox (Graffeg), PRH’s pop-up shop Like a Woman, Sam Conniff Allende’s Be More Pirate and HC list HQ’s BOSH! writen by Henry David Firth and Ian Theasby. Podcast of the Year, new for 2018,


honours both solid successes and bright new entrants into a medium brimming with good ideas. Penguin Podcast, Blinkist’s Simplify series, Down the Rabbit Hole, Story Shed, Mostly Lit, Not Another Book Podcast and The Bestseller Experiment are in the running. The five companies nominated for BookTech Startup of the Year are Publica, Bookabees, The Pound Project, Commaful and Bookful. A live pitch-off to decide the winner will take place at the FutureBook Live Conference on 30th November in London. Judges include: Alex Wood, Europe editor of Forbes; Bec Evans, founder of productivit start- up Prolifiko; and Marine Debray, head of group strategy and business development at HarperCollins. Another award, FutureBook


Person of the Year, has no shortlist and the winner will be announced at FutureBook Live.


HQ seals US editor’s début for six figures


Six-figure pre-empt


L,B’s Emma rocks the boat


Début Oneworld list Rock the Boat has signed a


series about a group of “mini feminists” on a play-date by début author and Little, Brown publisher Emma Beswetherick. The Playdate Adventure Club, aimed at five to eight-year-olds, follows three girls whose pretend adventures become real each time they meet. Publisher Gill Evans, who acquired world rights from Caroline Sheldon, said: “I love the mini feminists’ teamwork and the power of their imaginations.”


Fairy cleans up for Studio Studio Press has acquired world, all-language rights to Dave and the Tooth Fairy by former Tamarind Books publisher Verna Wilkins. The kids’ book broke new ground when it was released by Random House 25 years ago because it featured non-white characters, includ- ing tooth fairy Afiya. It will be redrawn and updated for its relaunch. Bonnier’s Natalie Jerome, who acquired the title, said the book would help with the list’s goal of “normalising diversity within our industry”


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Début HQ has made a “swift” six-figure pre-empt to secure We Are Not Like Them, a “compulsively page-turning” début by


Simon & Schuster US senior editor Christine Pride and writer Jo Piazza, and a second book, currently untitled, by the pair. It focuses on a lifelong friendship between black TV journalist Riley and Jen, a working-class white woman, who is married to a Philadelphia police officer. When Jen’s husband becomes embroiled in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager, it throws up “complex questions of race and how they play out in our most intimate spaces”. Manpreet Grewal, editorial director at HQ, pre-empted


PRIDE’S CO-AUTHORED DÉBUT HAS GONE TO HQ IN THE UK


S&S US EDITOR CHRISTINE


UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Sue Armstrong at C+W, on behalf of Alexandra Machinist at ICM. Grewal said the novel was “honest, searing, emotional and so very important—it is destined to become a classic”. William Morrow secured US rights to both novels at auction from Machinist.


Imprint rebrand


Macmillan International Higher Education list Palgrave Higher Education is rebranding as Red Globe


MILAN WIELINGA SAID RED GLOBE WAS THE ‘GO-TO’ HIGHER EDUCATION LIST


Palgrave Higher Education rebrands as Red Globe Press to mark 175th year


Press, a move it says will ensure it “establishes a distinctive position serving the worldwide market for core adoptable textbooks” for univer- sities. Te rebrand only affects the Palgrave Higher Education imprint, and not Palgrave Macmillan. Te name draws on the use of


Macmillan’s red logo, while the “Globe” element pays homage to its 175-year history of education: in 1865, the Macmillan brothers issued an accessible, compact edition of


Shakespeare’s works, calling it the Globe Edition. Te name also reflects the international focus of the brand. Macmillan International m.d.


Milan Wielinga said: “Te global market for our Higher Education textbooks is growing and over the past three years we have evolved the business to best serve the changing needs of students and tutors. Red Globe aims to be the go-to imprint for quality teaching materials for higher education institutions. We are proud of our history, and recognised that Red Globe Press was an ideal name for a distinctive imprint being named in a significant anniversary year.”


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