Joanne Dickinson | The Bookseller

Quercus buys "haunted" debut

Publication Date: Tue, 15/05/2012 - 07:00

Joanne Dickinson, Quercus' paperback publisher, has bought a debut novel based on real events that took place at a "haunted" rectory in the 1920s.

Dickinson acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in The True Confessions of Lucie Kaye by Neil Spring from Cathryn Summerhayes at WME.

The...

Benedicte Page | Cathryn Summerhayes | Harry Price | Joanne Dickinson | Neil Spring | quercus | Rights deal
Quercus recruits Dickinson to mass market role

Publication Date: Fri, 29/07/2011 - 07:50

Quercus Publishing has appointed current Sphere and Piatkus fiction publisher Joanne Dickinson to lead its mass market publishing programme.

Dickinson has worked at Little, Brown for the past 13 years, publishing authors including Dorothy Koomson, Jenny Colgan and Nora Roberts.

At Quercus, Dickinson will report to trade...

Brown | Charlotte Williams | Joanne Dickinson | Little | Piatkus | quercus | Sphere