According
to Deadline news Harper Collins have confirmed its big multimillion-dollar,
multi-book deal with Michael Mann. Harper Collins is to be the “home” of
Michael Mann books. The first novel to
be published will be a collaboration with The Cartel author Don Winslow. The
novel will be about the complex relationship between two Organized Crime
giants, Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana and will be published in 2017. More information can be found here.
Also with London Book
Fair starting today various things have been happening on the book front.
According
to the Bookseller Trapeze’s commissioning editor Sam Eades has pre-empted a
debut author’s killer crime series within 48 hours of receiving the
manuscript. The full news can be ready here. The author is a former paramedic and the TV
rights have also been bought by Sid Gentle whose adaptation of the Durrell’s is
currently being shown on television. The
first book in the series is Ragdoll and
will be published
in January 2017 in hardback,
e-book and audio.
In other book news Headline have bought the high concept thriller by Faber
Academy graduate Felicia Yap entitled The
Day After Yesterday. Headline have
also snapped another high concept thriller from debut author Nick Clarke
Windo. The book is entitled The Feed and
is set in a near future world where people can download a social media feed
directly to their brand. More information can be found here.
The Feed is due to be published in 2018.
Karen Sullivan of Orenda Books also bought the world English rights to
Norwegian crime writer Kjell Ola Dahl’s next two books in the Gunnarstranda
series. The two titles The Faithfull Friends and The Ice Swimmer will be published in
2017. More information can be read here.
Fans of Alienst author Caleb Carr will welcome the news that he is to
return to the series after 20 years. According to EW,
Carr will return to the historical mystery with two new books. The first of the
books is set 20 years after The Angels of
Darkness.
Avon
have bought Katerina Diamond’s two new psychological thrillers.
Fiona Barton’s novel The Widow is
set for the screen with (according to the Bookseller)
the TV rights being bought by the production company Playground.
Michael
Joseph have also bought the trilogy Mad,
Bad & Dangerous to Know by debut writer Chloé Esposito. Another
Faber Academy graduate the first book in the series Mad is due to be published in June 2017. More information from the Bookseller can be
found here.
Jonathan Cape is due to publish a new book in September by Ian McEwan. The
novel entitled The Nutshell is
according to the Bookseller
a classic story of murder and deceit.
In job news Alison Hennessey has moved from Harvill Secker to become
editorial director of Bloomsbury Crime.
More information via The Bookseller can be found here.
Sandstone Press have also (according to booktrade info)
signed second novels by German crime writer Volker Kutscher and David McCallum.
The Silent Death is the second
book in the Gereon Rath series and will be published in May 2017. Provisionally entitled Once a Upon a Crooked
Time is the second book in the Harry Murphy series by McCallum and it is to be
published in mid-2017.
Mark
Billingham is also to have three new novels published by Little Brown. According to Booktrade info,
the first of the three novels will be published in 2017. His newest novel Die of Shame is due to be published on 5th May 2016.
