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DHH News Roundup 16th - 22nd November 2020

11/23/2020

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​Over the weekend, it was announced that Canongate will be publishing The Diaries of Alan Rickman. The diaries contain 27 hand-written volumes of his "witty, gossipy and utterly candid" thoughts about his career and life spanning more than 25 years set to be edited down to a single book. 



​World Rights (exc.) USA were acquired from Natalie Galustian, with Holt set to publish in the USA.

To read the full press release, with details of the diary's contents, click here.


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​Ragnar Jónasson was interviewed on Ireland's RET radio this week. Catch up here.

Speaking to Ryan Tubridy, Ragnar spoke about how he went from translating Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic at the age of 17, to writing his own book including the Hidden Iceland and Dark Iceland series. 

His most recent book, The Mist, is the third in the Hidden Iceland series, featuring DI Hulda Hermansdottir. 


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Congratulations to our colleague, Harry Illingworth, who has been made a Director of the agency with immediate effect. 

​Illingworth, formerly a bookseller at Goldsboro Books, has been with the agency for almost seven years. He has been credited with developing the agency’s list of genre fiction authors, and has agreed a number of major deals this year. This summer, he was named a Bookseller Rising Star.

Illingworth, who joins fellow agents and directors David Headley (MD), Broo Doherty and Hannah Sheppard on the board, said: While this hasn’t been the easiest year for publishing, I am so fortunate to represent some truly fantastic authors who are all incredibly fun to work with and are constantly defying genre and pushing boundaries with their writing. They have helped shape what could have been a dire year into a positive one, and this next step really is the icing on the cake. I’m very grateful to David and my colleagues at the agency for their faith and support in me, and couldn’t be more excited to be joining the board of directors.”

​To read the full article, click here.


​It's the final round for the Goodreads Reader's Awards 2020 and we were delighted to see that both Stuart Turton's The Devil and the Dark Water, and The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson have made it through!

You can vote for your favourite in each genre's category until 30th November. Follow this link to cast yours!
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Brian McGilloway's New York Times bestselling Lucy Black series have been reissued by Little Brown's Constable Books, and all four were published in eBook this week. 

Little Girl Lost, Hurt, Preserve the Dead and Bad Blood have garnered strong praise and we cannot wait for a whole new generation of readers to get to grips with this dark and atmospheric police procedural. 

"[A] nimbly written and cleverly plotted tale." Daily Telegraph

"Storytelling of the highest order from one of Irish crime writing's most unassuming masters." Irish Independent

"Some of the very best crime fiction being written today." Lee Child

"A tense and beautifully-written crime novel that takes the reader into lives that aren't seen often enough." Ann Cleeves​
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A couple of new endorsements for David Fennell's upcoming The Art of Death landed this week, and we're pleased as punch:

"Gripping from the first page to the last, with a great heroine in DI Grace Archer and a plot with hints of Damien Hirst and the “art crime” of Bowie’s Outside, set in contemporary London. Crime fiction doesn’t get much better." Paul Burston

"David Fennell paints a twisted vision of modern London in the grip of a terrifying serial killer. The Art of Death is a deftly sculpted crime thriller that takes a scalpel to contemporary issues, as DI Grace Archer overcomes challenges, present and past, in her quest for justice. Perfect for people who like their reads on the nerve wracking side of creepy. Highly recommended." Adam Hamdy 


The 21st territory for M.W. Craven's The Puppet Show (Washington Poe 1) has been sold to Luitingh Sijthoff in the Netherlands. 

Fantastic, and well deserved news, for a fantastic series!
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Client Stephen Moss wrote a piece for this weekend's Observer on how climate change affects the seasonal migration of birds, unusual changes of which are on the rise. 

To read the full article, click here.


​Best Ever Christmas mag has selected both Jo Thomas' latest book, Finding Love at the Christmas Market and Phillipa Ashley's A Surprise Christmas Wedding as two of their Top Cosy Christmas Stocking Reads. 

These books are absolutely perfect for curling up on the sofa, with a cup of hot chocolate, or spiced cider, watching those winter nights draw in. The darker weather earlier in the day can be tough but these two are guaranteed to lift your spirits.
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​Finally, it was very exciting to see Stuart Turton's The Devil and the Dark Water featured as a Book of the Week on BBC Two's Between the Covers on Friday evening. 

The show, hosted by Sara Cox, is all things BOOKS and is a brilliant addition to our Friday nights, especially during lockdown. This episode included Graham Norton, Ben Miller and Desiree Burch and Grace Dent. 

​To catch up, click here.
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