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Granta has acquired world English rights to a memoir and a novel by Rupert Thomson, who has been previously published by Bloomsbury in the UK and Knopf in the US.
Commissioning editor Michal Shavit bought the books—a memoir and a novel—in "a very significant deal" via Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge & White.
Shavit said she was "thrilled" to be publishing Thomson, as she had been a fan "for many years". In particular, she highlighted his as-yet-untitled memoir, Thomson's first work of non-fiction, and compared it to Alexander Masters' Stuart: A Life Backwards.
"The team here was bowled over by this memoir," Shavit said. "It captures the mixture of murderousness and love that characterises sibling relationships and the devastating effect of the loss of a parent on a child."
The memoir will be published in hardback next summer, with the novel due out in 2012. An excerpt of the memoir will appear in the next issue of Granta.
Shavit added: "We believe that Rupert is ready to be discovered by a new, broader readership."
Thomson's last novel, Death of a Murderer, has sold nearly 7,500 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan.