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Canongate snaps up Brown

Publication Date: Fri, 12/10/2012 - 11:14

Canongate editorial director Francis Bickmore has acquired a début novel from Luke Brown, senior editor at UK independent publisher Tindal St Press. Bickmore bought world rights to My Biggest Lie from Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge & White.

A comic novel about “father figures, second chances and knowing...

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Tindal Street signs festival find

Publication Date: Thu, 07/04/2011 - 08:59

Tindal Street Press has acquired a debut novel after discovering the author at a writing festival.

Editor Luke Brown bought world rights to Robyn directly from author Deborah Morgan. He discovered her work when judging a "Pulp Idol" competition at the Liverpool Writing on the Wall festival. The book tells the story of a 10-...

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Right here, right now

Publication Date: Sat, 09/01/2010 - 16:19

When Beauty by Raphael Selbourne was announced as the Costa First Novel Award winner this week, literary editor and 2009 Booker-judge Michael Prodger spoke of how "people have been complaining this year that the contemporary novel doesn't...

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