News Behavioural scientist B J Fogg
ries—eight at auction, one on a pre-empt— with auctions for Russian and Turkish ongo- ing as The Bookseller Daily went to press, all via the Marsh Agency. Fogg, founder of the Behaviour Design
Fogg descends on LBF E
WORDS Tom Tivnan
BURY TRIUMPHED IN a hotly contested auction on the eve of LBF to land one of this year’s hotest non-fiction
properties: a book on how to be happier and healthier by superstar behavioural scientist and “Silicon Valley legend” B J Fogg. Deput publisher Joel Ricket bought
Shelley: gender pay gap ‘stark’
Mabey’s five-figure Marriage ‘a masterpiece’
Juliet Mabey at Oneworld has won a five-way auction for Tayari Jones’ An American Marriage, securing UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada and Australasia) for a five-figure sum. The title, an Oprah’s Book Club pick, shot to the top of the charts in the US, and Oneworld will publish it in hardback this month. Mabey said the novel was “a real masterpiece of sto- rytelling that offers an intimate look deep into the soul”.
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No one in the trade can “feel smug” about the gender pay gap figures, Hachette c.e.o. David Shelley told the Quantum Conference yesterday (9th April). Speaking at Olympia with former Nielsen Book vice-president Jo Henry, Shelley discussed the publication of Hachette Ltd’s gender pay gap, a “stark” median average of 24.71%. For the Hachette Group, which includes its distri- bution arm, the median gap was 1.32% in favour of women. Shelley said the indus- try had a “real problem”, but believes the release of the data could prove “exciting and energising”, with the trade now able to more fully interrogate gender pay. Shelley also said growth in audiobook
sales was not a fad: “In five years’ time—I put money on it—audio will [be] an abso- lutely central bit of the business.”
Malala’s father to reveal What Love Teaches
Malala Yousafzai’s father is to write “a deeply personal” book, What Love Teaches Me, for W H Allen after senior commissioning editor Jamie Joseph bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown. Little, Brown has US rights, and the book has been sold into seven other territories. Ziauddin Yousafzai is a human rights activist and the UN special adviser on global education. The book will be out in November.
UK and Commonwealth rights, for a six- figure sum, to Fogg’s Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything. The deal was concluded with Abner Stein’s Caspian Dennis, on behalf of Doug Abrams at Idea Architects. Abrams sold US rights to Eamon Dolan for his eponymous Houghton Mifflin Harcourt imprint aſter a 12-way auction. Translation rights have gone in nine territo-
Lab at Stanford Universit, has done groundbreaking work in behavioural psychology. In tech circles, he is renowned for his research on social media interac- tion; a 2007 group of students he taught on the subject is known as “the Facebook class” because many of its number went on to occupy high-powered positions at Silicon Valley giants such as Uber, Instagram, Face- book and Google. Tiny Habits, Ebury believes, “will show how—contrary to the myth of willpower— creating happier, healthier lives is much easier than we think”. Fogg called it “the culmination of over 20 years of my research, as well as my real-world experience in help- ing thousands of people become healthier and happier. In this book I share my break- through method for making change easier— and even fun.” Ricket said: “[Fogg’s] scientifically-based, road-tested model is breathtakingly powerful and will change so many lives. The Ebury team is already adopting his techniques to change our habits at home and in the office.”
Faber has snapped up a canine compan- ion to T S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, written by Costa-winning poet Christopher Reid. Leah Thaxton, Faber Children’s pub-
Old Toffer to join Eliot’s Possum
O’Brien’s oeuvre earns Irish writer a DBE
Edna O’Brien has been made a DBE for her services to litera- ture. The Irish author said it was “very gratifying”, adding: “It unites me in some etheric way to readers I don’t know and is an incentive, at 88, to keep going.” Stephen Page, c.e.o. of O’Brien’s publisher Faber & Faber, said: “The great Edna O’Brien[’s] international reputa- tion and readerships stand as a testament to her importance and originality.”
lisher, bought world rights, all languages to Old Toffer’s Book of Consequential Dogs from Peter Straus at RCW. Reid—who won the Costa in 2009 for A Gathering—was poetry editor at Faber in the 1990s, and was asked to write the book by the Eliot estate. Elliot Elam will illustrate the title, which features Dobson the Dog Detective, Flo the Philosophical Foxhound, and Frazzlesprat, who would rather be a cat. Thaxton said: “Has there been a more significant moment in the history of Faber Children’s? Eliot’s cats are adored, so it is incredibly exciting to be publishing such a stunning companion volume.”
Tolkien’s Gondolin falls into place for Harper
HarperCollins has announced J R R Tolkien’s The Fall of Gondo- lin will be published in the UK in August 2018. The title, edited by the author’s son Christopher Tolkien and illustrated by Alan Lee, completes the trilogy of connected Middle-earth stories, following The Children of Húrin (2007) and Beren and Lúthien (2017). The novel will be pub- lished by Houghton Mifflin Har- court in the US, with a number of translations signed too.
Pringle picks up Polly’s Theatre for Dreamers
Alexandra Pringle, Bloomsbury editor-in-chief, has won UK and Commonwealth rights to Polly Samson’s A Theatre for Dream- ers, in a deal struck with Clare Conville of C+W. Due in summer 2019, Samson’s third novel, set in 1960, sees a brother and sister travel to a Greek island following their mother’s death. Pringle said: “It is a novel that Polly Samson was born to write. Bloomsbury is hugely excited to be publishing it.”
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