Vintage will release nine titles by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, including LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA and CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD, in English-language ebook editions on October 15. At the same time, Vintage Espanol will issue ebook versions of 18 Garcia Marquez works in Spanish. The deal marks the first time books by Garcia Marquez, who died in April, will be available in digital format in the US, and comes several months after the estate’s agent Carmen Balcells announced a preliminary deal to create a joint partnership with the Wylie Agency. Jewish-American literary fiction publisher Fig Tree Books announced its […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
NYT Book Review to Feature Mantel Serial
The title story from two-time Booker winner Hilary Mantel‘s forthcoming story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher will run in the September 28 edition of the NYT Book Review as a first serial, available online as of September 21. (A UK first serial of the same story will run in The Telegraph on September 20.) The book of 10 stories publishes on September 30, issued in the US from Holt as a John Macrae Book. Editor of the NYTBR Pamela Paul told us by email, “We would love to do more first serials and excerpts, albeit selectively. Hilary Mantel is one […]
Bone Clocks Tops Amazon’s September List
David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks is Amazon’s September Spotlight pick, and Michael Pitre’s novel Fives and Twenty-Fives (already a featured Indie Debut and Indie Next book) is their featured debut. Two of our Publishers Lunch Fall/Winter Buzz Books make the list — Matt Richtel’s A Deadly Wandering and Tana French’s The Secret Place — along with these titles: Cosby: His Life and Times, Mark Whitaker What If?, Randall Munroe I’ll Drink to That, Betty Halbreich, Rebecca Paley Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Jeff Hobbs Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood The Paying Guests, Sarah […]
Suge Knight’s Book Due from Dey Street In 2015
Following Page Six’s insinuation connecting Suge Knight’s shooting with his long-in-gestation book, we can confirm the manuscript is alive and well. Harper director of publicity Shelby Meizlik confirms to PL that the book, now tentatively titled YOUR PAIN IS MY JOY: 100 Rounds with Suge Knight, is scheduled for publication by their Dey Street imprint in summer 2015, with Carrie Thornton editing. Neil Strauss, who collaborated with Marilyn Manson, Dave Navarro and Jenna Jameson on their books, is co-authoring the book. Originally sold to Riverhead back in 2002, the project was resold to HarperCollins last year with Riverhead recouping first proceeds. In […]
Briefs: September Costco Pick; Amis Breaks with German, French Publishers; Maze Runner Movie
The September Pennie’s Pick at Costco is The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery, by Sophie Hannah. The Guardian reported that two of Martin Amis‘s longstanding international publishers — Hanser in Germany, and Gallimard in France — declined to publish his newest novel, The Zone of Interest, set in a fictionalized Auschwitz. Another German publisher has not been secured yet, but Calmann-Levy will publish the book in France in 2015. Editor Deborah Kaufmann says she is “delighted to be starting a long relationship with Martin Amis.” The Guardian notes, “He said that it was his understanding that Gallimard’s rejection was due to […]
Fall Books
New York Magazine’s list of 57 Books to Read This Fall (from this week’s issue) is online now, joining recent “fall preview” lists and stories from the AP, Huffington Post (they picked 27), and Flavorwire’s 25 Must Read Books for fall. Bigger still, as noted previously, are our own new monthly lists of notable forthcoming releases. Next week alone is a big one for new books, featuring 19 novels of note plus Oprah Winfrey and Randall Munroe’s What If? in nonfiction. Our September preview list has 67 novels, 42 works of nonfiction, and 26 books for kids and young adults — each […]