Lucy Knisley’s RELISH is coming out in France early next year at éditions Delcourt! To watch Lucy’s delicious (but fortunately calorie-free!) little video celebrating the French edition, go to: http://vimeo.com/73630179#at=0.
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BOXERS & SAINTS SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD!
Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints has been named a finalist for the National Book Award for Young Peoples’ Literature after being named to the long-list a month ago. The winners will be announced on November 20th. Other finalists include Kathi Appelt’s The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, Cynthia Kadohata’s The Thing About…
“If Philip Marlowe came back as a cat, he’d have come back as Sam”
Meet Sam the Cat. His fee is a half a pound of lox (plus expenses), his clients are other felines but he catches human crooks. Now, Sam is back with another fur-raising adventure: THE GREAT CATSBY. (Any resemblance to a book with a similar title is totally intentional.)
New from Omnibus Press
AS YEARS GO BY – MARIANNE FAITHFUL by Mark Hodkinson From aristocratic lineage to convent school, stardom to attempted suicide, junkie to punk, folk singer to torch chanteuse, Marianne Faithfull has seen her life flash by in banner headlines. Author Mark Hodkinson says, “When I undertook the…book I did not properly grasp the magnitude of…
Coming in November from Omnibus Press:
The True Story of Acid House: Britain’s Last Youth Culture Revolution by Luke Bainbridge The arrival of a new style of music and a new type of drug in 1988 ignited a revolution. To coincide with the 25th anniversary of the second summer of love, this is the definitive story of the seismic movements in music…
Elsie Chapman’s DUALED finds a French home
French rights to dystopian YA novel, DUALED, and the sequel, DIVIDED, by Elsie Chapman (Steven Chudney Agency, USA) have just gone to Lumen, with DUALED to be published in Spring 2014.
OREGON HILL wins the 2013 Hammett Prize!
Less than two weeks after Permanent Press title DEAD ANYWAY won the 2013 Nero Award, another of their books, OREGON HILL by Howard Owen, has won the prestigious Hammett Prize for 2013. As Kirkus Reviews said of OREGON HILL: This is Southern literature as expected, with a touch of noir, and with a touch of Dennis Lehane’s Mystic…
ATTENTION MUSIC LOVERS! New titles from Omnibus Press and French rights are still available.
ONE DIRECTION: FIVE LIVES On 14 October, Omnibus Press will publish One Direction: Five Lives, an intimate book of the lives of One Direction band members, Harry, Liam, Niall, Louis and Zayn. Just three years ago Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Zayn Malik had never met each other. As solo singers trying…
RULES OF SUMMER – coming soon!
Mega-talented, Astrid Lindgren Prize- and Oscar-winner, Shaun Tan (THE ARRIVAL, THE LOST THING, THE RED TREE, etc.) has a new book coming out next month from Hachette Australia! RULES OF SUMMER will be published in France by Gallimard Jeunesse, in Holland by Querido, in Spain by Barbara Fiore and in Portugal by Kalandraka. (It is under…
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