Fiction

• Foreign deals stack up for Anna Bailey's Tall Bones

  News - Fiction

  Friday, 16th April 2021

  Transworld reports American, Canadian and European deals for 25-year-old's debut
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• Jacaranda Books to publish historical fiction based on Queen Victoria’s goddaughter

  Rights - Fiction

  Friday, 16th April 2021

  Debut novel Breaking the Maafa Chain, written by Shakespearean actress Anni Domingo, will be published this autumn
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• Diana Gabaldon reveals ninth Outlander novel with Century

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  Friday, 16th April 2021

  More than 50 million copies of the series have been sold worldwide
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• Ken Follett unveils new novel

  News - Fiction

  Friday, 16th April 2021

  Author reveals cover - and plot - of Never during international press conference ahead of November publication
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• Picador signs Nell Stevens’ 'richly witty' debut novel

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  Friday, 16th April 2021

  Tale featuring Frederic Chopin and George Sand 'is a novel about convention and breaking it, about love – secret, forbidden, unrequited - about art and creativity, men and...
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• Rosemary Shrager whips up crime debut

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  Thursday, 15th April 2021

  Three-book deal with Constable for cookbook writer: 'cosy crime and cookery collide in a debut thriller from TV celebrity chef Rosemary Shrager'
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• W&N pre-empts for Sarah Thankam Mathews novel

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  Thursday, 15th April 2021

  All This Could be Different is 'an extraordinary debut which tells a story about being young; about the stress and precarity of the corporate world'
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• Picador announces new novel from Hanya Yanagihara

  News - Fiction

  Thursday, 15th April 2021

  Author of A Little Life returns with To Paradise, published next January: 'as deeply moving and powerfully propulsive as it is haunting and thought-provoking'
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• Fourth Estate wins seven-way auction for debut

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  Thursday, 15th April 2021

  Plimpton-winner Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You is 'a gut punch of a book that blew us all away with its beautifully complex and heart-wrenching portrait of the...
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• Natalie Portman lined up for Elena Ferrante role

  News - Fiction

  Thursday, 15th April 2021

  Actress to star in and produce screen version of Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment with HBO
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