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TFP signs two from Kaufman

Publication Date: Fri, 17/05/2013 - 11:16

The Friday Project has signed two new books from cult Canadian author Andrew Kaufman.

Scott Pack, the publisher at the HarperCollins imprint, signed UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Sam Hiyate at The Rights Factory.

Pack said: “Have I just signed up two novels, or have I actually signed eight novella...

Andrew Kaufman | Joshua Farrington | Rights deal | The Friday Project
Two publishing deals for Lambert

Publication Date: Wed, 20/03/2013 - 15:39

Two publishers have signed up books from Italy-based writer Charles Lambert.

Emlyn Rees of Exhibit A, Angry Robot's crime imprint, has signed world English rights in two novels via Isobel Dixon at the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency.

Lambert's first novel for Exhibit A is The View from the Tower, a...

Angry Robot | Charles Lambert | Exhibit A | HarperCollins | Joshua Farrington | Rights deal | The Friday Project
TFP aims to Charm with digital pamphlets

Publication Date: Fri, 09/11/2012 - 10:00

The Friday Project has signed a series of three digital “pamphlets” by British design guru Stephen Bayley.

The critic and curator, who was the first chief executive of the Design Museum and writes for numerous newspapers and magazines, will write three long essays on charm, desire and taste for the HarperCollins imprint...

digital | Joshua Farrington | Rights deal | The Friday Project
Self-published crime for TFP

Publication Date: Fri, 19/10/2012 - 10:18

The Friday Project has signed up a self-published crime writer who sets her novels among London’s Polish community.

Publisher Scott Pack signed UK and Commonwealth rights for two books by Anya Lipska, from her agent Ivan Mulcahy of Mulcahy Conway Associates.

The HarperCollins imprint will now publish Lipska’s...

Joshua Farrington | Rights deal | The Friday Project
Friday Project signs new Confessions title

Publication Date: Tue, 25/09/2012 - 08:05

HarperCollins imprint The Friday Project has signed another title in its Confessions series, featuring people speaking out about roles that often go unheard.

The new title, Confessions of an Undercover Cop, is written under the pseudonym Ash Cameron by a police officer with twenty years experience of working undercover....

Ash Cameron | Confessions of an Undercover Cop | HarperCollins | Joshua Farrington | Rights deal | The Friday Project
TFP hides album code in Wedding Present book

Publication Date: Thu, 16/08/2012 - 08:15

The Friday Project is to publish a new music book which hides a secret code for downloading the album it documents.

Valentina, British indie band The Wedding Present’s latest album, will be available to careful readers who discover the code inside the book, Valentina: The Story of a Wedding Present Album.
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Home | Joshua Farrington | music | Rights deal | Scott Pack | The Friday Project | The Wedding Present
TFP signs up PC 'confessions'

Publication Date: Tue, 17/07/2012 - 15:03

An anonymous behind-the-scenes look at modern policing is the latest title to be snapped up by HarperCollins imprint The Friday Project.

Confessions of a Police Constable, by the pseudonymously named “Matt Delito”, started out life as a popular blog, Notes from the Frontline, describing the trials and tribulations...

Joshua Farrington | Rights deal | The Friday Project
Field of Dreams author to Friday Project

Publication Date: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 12:58

HarperCollins imprint The Friday Project is to publish a new novel by W P Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe, the novel famously filmed as "Field of Dreams".

The Canadian author will return to his trademark combination of baseball and magic realism in Butterfly Winter, a novel about sporting star twins...

Home | Rights deal | Roger Tagholm | The Friday Project | W P Kinsella
Friday Project signs up paramedic's tale

Publication Date: Fri, 25/05/2012 - 11:05

The Friday Project has signed UK rights to Paramedico: Around the World by Ambulance by Benjamin Gilmour, through James Wills at Watson, Little.

The book, which chronicles Gilmour's work in ambulances around the world is described as "part memoir, part travelogue and part treatise on life and death" will be...

Benedicte Page | Rights deal | The Friday Project
Friday Project to publish 4AD story

Publication Date: Wed, 09/05/2012 - 08:10

Music journalist Martin Aston is to tell the story of record label 4AD in a book for The Friday Project, with exclusive access to the label's founder Ivo Watts-Russell.

1980 Forward: The Story of 4AD was acquired directly from the author by TFP publisher Scott Pack and will be published in a hardback and limited collector...

4AD | Benedicte Page | music | Rights deal | The Friday Project