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Richman and Riley among The Five to take on The Friday Night Club


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A collaborative novel by five bestselling authors, including Lucinda Riley


and Alyson Richman, has racked up advances of “well over $1m” in six territories in the run-up to Frankfurt. Inspired by a block- buster Guggenheim exhibition of Hilma af Klint, a pioneering female abstract artist, The Friday Night Club is set in Stockholm in the early 1900s.


LUCINDA RILEY IS ON BOARD FOR THE COLLABORATIVE NOVEL


The novel is a fictionalised account of “The Five”: a group of women artists, led by af Klint, who met weekly for “artistic and spiritual sustenance”. The project was started by US author Richman aſter she saw the exhibi- tion. Af Klint was a mystic and


Pounder’s Wicked Santa tale to Bloomsbury


Bloomsbury Children’s has snapped up Sibéal Pounder’s “‘Wicked’-style retell- ing” of the Santa story, which centres around Ms Claus. The festive-themed novel is aimed at readers aged nine to 12; it is the first time Pounder has writ- ten for that age group for Bloomsbury. Ellen Holgate, Bloomsbury


Children’s head of fiction, bought world rights (excluding North America) in Tinsel: The Untold Story of Ms Claus from Gemma Cooper at The Bent Agency. The book, to be published in October 2020, aims to “bring Blanche Claus out of the background” and


will introduce new characters such as Eggnog, “a giant enchanted fir tree who just wants to hug everyone”. Pounder’s books have sold almost


250,000 units, for £860,000, through BookScan UK across her Witch Wars and Bad Mermaids series. Her star has risen particularly in the past 12 months, with a World Book Day title and Beyond Platform 13 (Macmillan), the official sequel to Eva Ibbotson’s classic The Secret of Platform 13. Holgate said: “[Pounder will] bring


her renowned wit and style to a brand new audience.”


Serpent’s Tail to launch crime list Viper under the leadership of Jewess


Serpent’s Tail senior commissioning editor Miranda Jewess will launch crime imprint Viper in November, with 20 titles due in its first year. Viper will launch with a party in


central London on 7th November, with its first novel, “haunting police procedural” A Famished Heart by Irish author Nicola White, to be published in February 2020. Jewess says the list currently comprises 20 titles and is a mix of début authors—such as NPR senior editor Vikki Valentine, writing


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The Plague Letters under the pen name V L Valentine—and established names such as David Jackson, whose standalone thriller The Resident follows a serial killer hiding in an abandoned house, who discovers he can access all the other houses on the terrace through the attic. Viper will publish in July 2020. Jewess, formerly acquisitions


and managing editor at Titan Books, joined Profile as senior commissioning editor for Serpent’s Tail Crime in


artist whose abstract paintings predated the widely-regarded “innovators” of the movement: Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian. Yet her work was largely ignored until the 1980s. The Guggenheim show, which concluded in April, was the most-atended exhibition in the museum’s 82-year history. The idea for the book came


to Richman aſter she read a painting’s caption which said af Klint’s group met every Friday. “I was so struck by the beaut of this concept: five women yearning for knowledge, independence, and a deep sense of purpose, in the early 1900s. I instantly felt it would be an incredible collabora- tive novel, where the voices of Hilma and the other four women, since vanished into obscurit, could be brought to life.” Agent Stephen Riley sold


translation rights into six terri- tories, including to Goldmann (Germany) editorial director Claudia Negele, Mondadori Italy’s


head of foreign fiction Donatella Minuto, and Xander Uitgevers (the Netherlands) founder Sander Knol. The book has also been snapped up in Norway, Sweden and Brazil, with two other “major territories” on the verge of being pre-empted. Sally Wofford-Giraud of Union Literary is handling North America rights. Welsh novelist Tracy Rees, New


Yorker M J Rose and the Swedish author of The Red Address Book, Sofia Lundberg, are joining Riley and Richman on the novel. Riley has sold just over one million print units for £6.1m through Nielsen BookScan UK, scoring her first Mass-Market Fiction number one this month with The Butterfly Room. She said: “The story of five women forming a club, at a time when women were shunned because of their gender, and the amazing spiritual connection they subsequently fostered was right up my street. I knew I had to write it.” Reporting Tom Tivnan


SIBÉAL POUNDER’S PROFILE HAS BEEN RAISED BY HER PARTICIPATION IN WORLD BOOK DAY IN MARCH


February, commissioning crime, thriller and suspense titles. Explaining the imprint’s name,


Jewess said: “We wanted a name that had a strong link to Serpent’s Tail, but also hints at what the list is all about. It’s young, punchy and, as you’d expect, has a pretty high body count.” Jewess added: “Viper is all about


MIRANDA JEWESS’ LIST VIPER WILL LAUNCH WITH A PARTY ON 7TH NOVEMBER


publishing new crime and thriller fiction, but our parameters aren’t strict. Really I just love books that have a brilliant mystery at their heart—whether psychological thriller, police procedural, historical crime, gothic whodunit, or a high-concept genre crossover.”


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LATEST NEWS Bookshops campaign for same business rate relief as pubs


Bookshops are asking to be given the same business-rate relief as pubs, arguing they help to drive social cohesion in a similar way to drinking establishments.


Igloo overhaul puts business back on track


Igloo Books, the mass-market children’s books business owned by Bonnier Publishing, has undergone an overhaul thanks to its new chief executive officer, who has affirmed the division’s future profitability.


PLR to cover e-books and audiobooks


The Public Lending Right (PLR) will be extended to cover e-books and e- audiobooks borrowed from libraries from 1st July.


Wright, Vunipola and Fallon pick up Sports Book awards


Martine Wright has won the Autobiography of the Year Award at the 2018 Sports Book Awards.


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