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Beautiful Books acquires UK rights in Schlink's essays

31.08.09 | Philip Jones

Simon Petherick of Beautiful Books has bought UK rights to Guilt about the Past, a collection of essays by the author of The Reader Bernhard Schlink.

Beautiful Books acquired UK rights from Madonna Duffy of University of Queesnland Press and will publish in paperback on 11th Feb 2010.

Based on the Weidenfeld lectures he delivered at Oxford University in 2008, the six essays look at the long shadow of past guilt that is a German experience as well as a global one. Schlink explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches to a whole society, not just to individual perpetrators.

Beautiful Books is hoping to arrange speaking engagements for Professor Schlink in the UK post publication. His most recent literary novel was Homecoming, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in January 2008.

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By The Poacher

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Thu, 27/01/2011 - 12:10
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Thu, 27/01/2011 - 12:10
By The Poacher

At last, some proper publishing news. Schlink is an important writer who should be made more widely available, and not just because of Hollywood exposure (read him, don't just watch the movie). This is the sort of news that The Bookseller should be promoting, not endless griping about retailers and (their) distribution problems. It is good writers that sell good books. Admittedly, there are plenty of sxxx writers that manage to sell sxxx books, but we all know who they are. And we know where to buy them, if we want to. Alongside the own brand bleach and baked beans.

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 12:10
By Tim Hendry

Poacher - quite right. By what quirk of fate is a rag dedicated to the book trade more concerned with the commerce than the content? It's not a booksellers or even a book readers forum at all - it bears the same relationship to literature as McDonalds does to good food, or The Sun does to good journalism. This won't concern the hacks at The Bookseller of course, because they have absolutely zilch interest in literature. Still, they presumably gain some kudos in their own minds and circles by being associated with books, no matter how loosely or tangentially.

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 12:10

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