Fiction

• Granta starts search for best young British novelists

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  Wednesday, 13th October 2021

  Submissions open for competition held every ten years to find the twenty best writers of their generation
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• TV deal for Jackie Collins bestseller

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  Tuesday, 5th October 2021

  FederationUK this morning announces that Sarah Phelps is set to adapt Jackie Collins’ 'scabrous masterpiece' Lovers & Gamblers as 'a major new television...
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• Monster Dahl/Netflix deal sets new bar for literary estates

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  Thursday, 23rd September 2021

  £500m agreement with streaming giant for the world Roald Dahl created excludes existing book deals
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• TV deal for YA trilogy

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  Wednesday, 4th August 2021

  Mark Lawrence’s best-selling fantasy book trilogy One Word Kill to be adapted by television writer Holly Phillips
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• Aisling’s off to New York

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  Friday, 30th July 2021

  Gill Books unveils fourth title in the Aisling series, with 'the Irish Bridget Jones' heading for the Big Apple: 'New York has so much to offer, not least in the ridey...
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• TV deal for Ian Moore's Death and Croissants

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  Wednesday, 28th July 2021

  Independent production company Free@Last TV - maker of Agatha Raisin - buys rights from Duckworth's Farrago
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• Aconyte novels set for Spanish readers

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  Thursday, 22nd July 2021

  Fiction imprint of global games group Asmodee strikes range-wide deal with Minotauro, fantasy publishing imprint of Planeta
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• Downton Abbey star Joanne Froggatt reads Lisa Jewell audiobook for PRH

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  Thursday, 22nd July 2021

  The Night She Disappeared adds to Froggatt's audiobook track-record, which includes books by Adele Parks and Kate Morton, and a performance of Wuthering Heights
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• RSL maps pandemic poetry across London

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  Wednesday, 21st July 2021

  Poems written in response to lockdown displayed on interactive online map of the capital
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• Working Title options Ruth Ware’s thriller The Turn of the Key

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  Thursday, 8th July 2021

  Screenwriters on board to adapt 'gripping modern-day haunted house thriller' published by Vintage
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