And JERUSALEM is getting selected! The latest list being NPR’s: NPR Best Books of 2016 JERUSALEM review. “Alan Moore (the groundbreaking, hairy, British genius behind V for Vendetta and Watchmen) spent 10 years pecking away at this Really Big Book — a nearly 1,300-page masterpiece of ambition and focus in which the only character…
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Another Great Review for JERUSALEM!
Now, it’s The Spectator’s turn to give JERUSALEM a glowing review! Click here to read it. Alan Moore at the press conference for the launch of JERUSALEM, September 2016. (photo credit: Lora Fountain)
JERUSALEM Encore
We are thrilled to announce that The Washington Post has named JERUSALEM one of the Notable Books of 2016! (This is the UK boxed set.)
CITY OF SAINTS AND THIEVES
Natalie C. Anderson’s CITY OF SAINTS AND THIEVES is a YA thriller set in Kenya and the Congo and has been described as “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Gone Girl.” Now French rights have been acquired by Pocket Jeunesse.
More HAZEL WOOD News!
Melissa Albert’s THE HAZEL WOOD just keeps selling and selling! After France, now RBA have acquired world rights for Spanish and Catalan, and Moon are the winners of the Dutch auction. Fairy tales don’t care whether you believe in them. (From the RBA offer.)
More Kudos for JERUSALEM!
Alan Moore’s JERUSALEM has made Kirkus‘ “Best Fiction of 2016” list! “Mind-meld James Michener, Charles Dickens, and Stephen King and you’ll approach the territory the endlessly inventive Moore stakes out in his most magnum of magna opera.” Read the full review here.
THE HAZEL WOOD Is Coming to France!
After an animated auction, it’s Editions Milan who have won the right to publish Melissa Albert’s THE HAZEL WOOD in France. (That isn’t the real cover, we just wanted to make this post prettier!)
More HAZEL WOOD News!
The rights situation keeps on changing very quickly for this wonderful new contemporary fantasy crossed with very scary fairy tales from Melissa Albert. Last week, Giunti pre-empted the Italian rights for THE HAZEL WOOD, and now Penguin Random House UK have won the auction for UK/Commonwealth rights! Auctions are under way now in France and Spain,…
HOPE FARM Wins the Barbara Jefferis Award!
Congratulations are due to author Peggy Frew and publisher Scribe as HOPE FARM wins Australia’s prestigious Barbara Jefferis Award! The award is given by the Australian Society of Authors for “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women…
Claire Zorn wins WA Premier’s Literary award!
Claire Zorn has won the WA Premier’s Literary award for THE PROTECTED (UQP 2015) and has been shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis award! Rights are available for Claire’s latest work ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP (UQP 2016), a ‘visceral exploration of adolescence and the complex ways in which maternal relationships impact masculine identity.’ Find…
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