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Saqi imprint The Westbourne Press has bought world English rights to Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen, edited by poet and playwright Sabrina Mahfouz, recently made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

FutureBook is partnering with social reading app The Pigeonhole to run a short story competition exploring the future of the book.

Anna Burns' Milkman (Faber), Esi Edugyan's Washington Black (Serpent's Tail), Daisy Johnson's Everything Under (Jonathan Cape), Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room (Jonathan Cape), Richard Powers' The Overstory (William Heinemann) and Robin Robertson's The Long Take (Picador), make up the shortlist for 2018’s £50,000 Man Booker Prize.

Independent publisher Orenda Books has acquired world English language rights to two books by Australian author Helen FitzGerald.

Bea Carvalho has been appointed general fiction buyer at Waterstones, replacing Chris White.

Sam Coates is to join literary agency Rogers, Coleridge and White as foreign rights manager, working alongside department head Laurence Laluyaux. Coates joins on 22nd October, having worked at Penguin Random House for five years, most recently at Vintage.

Canadian children’s book publisher Kids Can Press will see two of its book properties transformed into television shows next fall: Ashley Spires’ graphic novels about Binky the Space Cat and a picture-book series by Geneviève Côté. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @porter_anderson Books-to-Television Adaptations anada’s Kids Can Press has announced today (September 20) two new…

Canadian children’s book publisher Kids Can Press will see two of its book properties transformed into television shows next fall: Ashley Spires’ graphic novels about Binky the Space Cat and a picture-book series by Geneviève Côté. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @porter_anderson Books-to-Television Adaptations anada’s Kids Can Press has announced today (September 20) two new…

'Ranging across space and time,' according to jury chair Kwame Anthony Appiah, the 2018 Man Booker Prize shortlist includes three authors from the UK, one from Canada, two from the United States. The post The Man Booker Prize for Fiction Names Its 2018 Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

'Ranging across space and time,' according to jury chair Kwame Anthony Appiah, the 2018 Man Booker Prize shortlist includes three authors from the UK, one from Canada, two from the United States. The post The Man Booker Prize for Fiction Names Its 2018 Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.