Last week, Bloomsbury UK recalled all review copies and withdrew from a planned February 11 publication That Was The Church That Was: How the Church of England Lost the English People, by Andrew Brown and Linda Woodhead. Part of what’s remarkable is how little press coverage the unusual move drew. We first read about it through the Religion News Service, posting via the Washington Post. The primary article ran in Britain’s Spectator. A note to reviewers indicated that, “Following the receipt of a legal complaint, Bloomsbury are recalling all review copies of this book and ask you to immediately return the […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Harvard Common Press Sold to Quarto; Put Me In the Story Expands at BN; More From Basford
Quarto has completed their acquisition of The Harvard Common Press, as of February 1, adding hundreds of titles to their backlist along with over 25,000 recipes. HCP will become an imprint of Quarto, with editorial and production run out of Quarto’s office in Beverly, MA and editorial director Dan Rosenberg keeping the same role. Harvard Common Press president and publisher Bruce Shaw and associate publisher Adam Salomone will no longer have daily operational positions, but will “remain in advisory roles with Quarto.” The two are partners at Salt Venture Partners, investing in food-related start-ups, and co-founders of The Food Loft. Shaw says in the announcement, “I’m pleased […]
Briefs: Foer’s Next Novel, Now From FSG; and More
Jonathan Safran Foer‘s first novel in 11 years, HERE I AM, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in September (Hamish Hamilton will publish the UK edition on September 29.) The NYT reports the novel, which FSG acquired as part of a three-book deal (which also includes another novel and a work of nonfiction), “unfolds over a single month in present-day Washington, as a Jewish family with three sons falls apart after the parents’ marriage falters. While the family implodes, relatives from Israel are visiting for the bar mitzvah of one of the sons. The drama unfolds as a […]
Oprah Winfrey Will Launch New Imprint at Flatiron Books With Memoir THE LIFE YOU WANT
Flatiron Books will publish Oprah Winfrey’s forthcoming memoir THE LIFE YOU WANT in January 2017, the lead title in Winfrey’s as-yet-unnamed book imprint, expected to include several non-fiction titles per year chosen personally by Oprah. The book, which will be published simultaneously by Pan Macmillan in the UK, Australia, South Africa and India, promises to reveal “never-before told stories from her own experience and shines a light on how anyone can put their life on a new trajectory.” Winfrey said in the announcement: “All of my experiences, even the painful ones, have been there to teach me something about life. […]
Briefs
Doubleday will publish New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer‘s topical DARK MONEY: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right on January 19, 2016, with an announced first printing of 150,000 copies. In the book, Mayer asserts that “a network of exceedingly wealthy people with extreme libertarian views [have] bankrolled a systematic, step-by-step plan to fundamentally alter the American political system.” The work is based on five years of interviews and research. Oxford University Press Canada will move sales and distribution of their trade list from Publishers Group West as of January 1, with the Canadian Manda Group […]
People: Funke’s Start-Up Publisher to be Distributed by PGW, and More
Author Cornelia Funke‘s new independent publishing house Breathing Books has a sales and distribution agreement with PGW for the US and Canada. Her first title, The Golden Yarn, is now set for publication on December 1, 2015. (When Funke originally announced that she was parting ways with Little, Brown Children’s and Chicken House in the UK, she was aiming for a November release of the book.) She says in the announcement, “I’m thrilled that Breathing Books has found a distribution partner in PGW. As they know about my passion for working with booksellers and finding the best ways to share my books with my North American […]