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Bloomsbury assists youngster Hinson-King with adoption tale


World rights scored


Bloomsbury Children’s has scored Strong and Tough, an “inspira-


tional” book about adoption, by 10-year-old academy footballer Rico Hinson-King, illustrated by Nick Sharrat.


The book was writen during homework club at Manchester Cit FC in 2020 by Hinson-King, who won the Premier League Young Writer of the Year competi- tion with his short story on the topic of “Fearless”, based on his personal adoption story. Bloomsbury acquired world rights in the text from Amber Caravéo at Skylark Literary; non-fiction commissioning editor Sally Beet acquired world rights in Sharrat’s illustrations from Anthony Goff at David Higham. Strong and Tough tells the


RICO HINSON-KING, 10, IS ON THE BOOKS AT MANCHESTER CITY


story of Hinson-King’s adoption through the character of Charlie. When Charlie’s birth parents are unable to look aſter him, he and his two sisters are taken into foster care. Charlie stays strong and finds “hope and resilience


Orion seals deal for Malpas’ Regency romance


Orion Fiction has signed a series of “sexy, scandalous and utterly unputdownable” historical novels from romance author Jodi Ellen Malpas, set in the Regency period. Editorial director Charlotte Mursell


acquired world all-language rights directly from Malpas, with the first Regency book due in autumn 2022. Leah Hultenschmidt, editorial director at Grand Central, will publish the books in the US. The first book begins in 1814, follow-


ing 19-year-old Eliza Melrose who is about to be launched into society, yet


“the last thing she wants is a husband. But then she meets Duke Johnny Winter, youngest son of the late Duke of Chester, a disgraced nobleman who is shrouded in mystery and proving quite impossible to resist.” Mursell said the title would “leave


readers hot under the collar in the way that only a Jodi Ellen Malpas novel can”. The author’s self-published tril- ogy This Man sold more than 250,000 e-books in 2013, which led to a six- figure publishing deal with Orion. She has sold over 400,000 print copies for £1.9m in the UK, according to Nielsen.


Allen Lane secures Robeyns’ polemic on reining in the super-wealthy


Allen Lane has triumphed in a four- way auction for a “landmark” book about limiting rich people’s wealth from philosopher Ingrid Robeyns. Senior commissioning editor


Chloe Currens bought UK and Commonwealth rights for Limitarianism from Sophie Scard at United Agents. It will be published in autumn 2023. The book draws on years of original research to “build a complete and authoritative case


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against extreme wealth”. Robeyns pictured lays out


philosophical and practical reasons why wealth should not be accepted above a certain level, from “the simple truth that no one deserves to be super-rich, through the drawbacks of philanthropy, to the devastating social and ecological consequences of excess affluence”. Robeyns is a philosopher and economist who holds the chair in


along the journey to finding his forever family—and plays lots of football along the way”. Bloomsbury will publish simul- taneously in hardback and paper- back in 2022, ahead of October’s National Adoption Week. Beets said: “When we first came across Rico’s story, we were all struck by how incredibly real, moving and unique it was. This is an important tale that hasn’t been told before, one that we know will be a really powerful tool in encouraging empathy and under- standing, as well helping other children in similar circumstances to feel less alone.”


Hinson-King said: “I wanted other kids to know what it’s like being in foster care; I wanted kids to know it’s OK to come from this background and never to give up—even when it gets really tough. It’s important those kids in care see their experience in a book, and for kids who haven’t been in care or adopted to under- stand more about what it’s like.” Reporting Ruth Comerford


JODI ELLEN MALPAS’ NEW SERIES FEATURES


A REGENCY DÉBUTANTE


ethics of institutions at Utrecht University. She has been elected as a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences & Arts, and in 2021 was awarded an Emma Goldman Award for her work on inequality studies and feminism by the FLAX Foundation in Vienna. Currens said that Limitarianism


“promises to be a transformative book—the product of [Robeyns’] unique rigour and vision—which will explode the lingering myths used to justify extreme wealth, and offer us a practical way of reaching a more equitable world.”


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