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DHH News Roundup 13 - 19 April 2019

4/23/2019

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​We hope you’ve got a plethora of chocolate eggs, hot cross buns and slices of Simnel cake on the go after the Bank Holiday weekend. Why don’t you stick the kettle on, grab a treat and settle down to read our news roundup from the last week!
 
Firstly, we’d like to wish a very Happy Publication Day to four fabulous clients: Keris Stainton for The Bad Mother’s Book Club; Anna Stephens for the paperback of Darksoul; Anna Jacobs for Changing Lara and Ane Riel for the paperback of her debut novel Resin. 
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Congratulations to Stuart Turton, whose acclaimed The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle has been longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The shortlisted will be announced on the 19th May and the winner on the 18th July at the annual awards ceremony taking place at the Festival itself.

We are over the moon that King of Kings, the collaboration between Wilbur Smith and client Imogen Robertson, and the follow-up to the worldwide bestseller The Triumph of the Sun, reached No.1 in the hardback bestselling charts within the first two weeks of sale.
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The film that was made out of Caroline Smailes’ novel The Drowning of Arthur Braxton has won Best Feature Film at the Coventry Film Festival last weekend. Congratulations all!

Italian rights for James Goodhand's debut YA novel Last Lesson have been sold to Rizzoli (via Penguin Random House). James was one of our pitchers at the very first Pitch DHH and rather fortuitously, was snapped up by Harry Illingworth. 

Russian rights for G.S. Locke’s debut novel Neon have been sold to Eksmo, via Orion. ​

Lightseekers, the spellbinding debut from Femi Kayode and due to be published by Bloomsbury in 2020, has sold its Czech Republic rights to Host.
In a super-exciting surprise this week, How I Met Your Mother’s Neil Patrick Harris told TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager that one of the books he was currently reading and enjoying was none other than The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. To watch the full clip, click here.
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​Paul Burston’s new novel The Closer I Get has been garnering some incredible reviews pre-publication (out in July 2019 from Orenda Books) from the likes of Lisa Jewell (“Properly dark and human and twisty. I loved it!”); Melanie McGrath (“Compelling, creepy and completely believable. Bravo.”); Angela Clarke (“Absurdly gripping… enough to unnerve anyone who has ever spent any time online.”) and Sarah Hilary (“Dangerous from page one, lit by bursts of black humour, ultimately honest about the frailty of ego and the masks we all wear. Terrifically readable.”).

Client Yvonne Singh has written a fascinating piece for The Guardian entitled How Scotland Erased Guyana From Its Past and explores the portrayal of Scots as abolitionists and liberal champions which has hidden a long history of profiting from slavery in the Caribbean. The piece proved so popular that it was picked up and retweeted by Tottenham Labour MP, David Lammy. To read the article in its entirety, click here.
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​Finally, we’d like to pay tribute one of our clients, Una-Mary Parker (rep: Broo Doherty) who sadly passed away earlier this month. Before turning her hand to novels, Una-Mary worked as a journalist at the Daily Mail and Evening Standard and also spent ten years as social editor of Tatler magazine. Una's first novel, Riches, was published in October 1987 and went on to become an international bestseller. Her other novels include Scandals, Temptations, Enticements, A Guilty Pleasure, Sweet Vengeance and The Fairbairn Fortunes. Glamorous, witty and unfailingly charming, it’s safe to say we will miss Una-Mary dearly. 
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