Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson is the top pick for September’s Library Reads. Also on the list is Evie Dunmore’s Bringing Down the Duke, excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019: Romance sampler. The rest of the picks: Don’t You Forget About Me, by Mhairi McFarlane The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett The Long Call, by Ann Cleeves No Judgments, by Meg Cabot The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott This Tender Land, by William Kent Krueger The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates Well Met, by Jen DeLuca
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At Flatiron, Bryn Clark has been promoted to editor and Sarah Murphy to executive editor. Agnes Ahlander Turner has been promoted to executive vice president at Maria B. Campbell Associates, and Beniamino Ambrosi and Johanna Gustavsson both been named vice president. In the UK, Noel Murphy will join Granta Books and Granta Magazine as commercial director starting September 23. He was previously sales and marketing director at Yale University Press. Imprints Orion will launch Dash, a digital fiction imprint, this fall, run by commissioning editor Victoria Oundjian. Bookselling April Newton (£8.37 an hour), Kimi Wright (£8.71 an hour), Stefan Pace […]
Krueger’s This Tender Land Tops September Indie Next List
The ABA named This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger as its No. 1 Indie Next pick for September. Also on the list are David Koepp’s Cold Storage, Soren Sveistrup’s The Chestnut Man, Meg Waite Clayton’s The Last Train to London, and Alex North’s The Whisper Man, all excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 samplers. The rest of the picks: Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir The Long Call, by Ann Cleeves The Dearly Beloved, by Cara Wall The Beekeeper of Aleppo, by Christy Lefteri The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott Axiomatic, by Maria Tumarkin […]
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At Penguin Publishing Group, Lauren Monaco has been promoted to senior vice president, group sales director, for Penguin Random House sales. Carrie Swetonic moves up to the newly created position of senior executive director, nonfiction backlist. Caroline Payne has been promoted to marketing coordinator at Dutton. Vijay Seshadri has been named poetry editor of the Paris Review. He won 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for 3 Sections and a 2015 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Giulia Rizzo joined HarperCollins Italia as children’s editor, reporting to editorial director Sabrina Annoni. She was previously with Terre di mezzo Editore and […]
August Picks: Apple Books, and More
The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda is Reese Witherspoon‘s Hello Sunshine book club pick for the month. Apple Books‘ picks for August are: Chances Are…, by Richard Russo True Believer, by Jack Carr Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?, by Brock Clarke The Outlaw Ocean, by Ian Urbina See Jane Win, by Caitlin Moscatello Trick Mirror, by Jia Tolentino The Right Swipe, by Alisha Rai The Escape Room, by Megan Goldin Cold Heart, Warm Cowboy, by Caitlin Crews The Merciful Crow, by Margaret Owen A Dangerous Man, by Robert Crais Lost You, by Haylen Beck The Warehouse, by Rob Hart […]
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Andrew Welham, deputy ceo of Octopus Publishing Group, will retire at the end of the year after 12 years with Hachette UK. Forthcoming Macmillan will publish Edward Snowden‘s memoir PERMANENT RECORD globally on September 17, with Metropolitan as the US imprint. “Edward Snowden decided at the age of 29 to give up his entire future for the good of his country,” Macmillan CEO John Sargent said in a statement. “He displayed enormous courage in doing so, and like him or not, his is an incredible American story. There is no doubt that the world is a better and more private […]