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Scribe UK has signed a "non-fiction novel" based on the life of Raoul Moat by journalist Andrew Hankinson.
Editor-at-large Philip Gwyn Jones signed world rights to the book, in his first deal for the publisher.
The book, You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life (You Are Raoul Moat), is written in the second person, and based on letters, diaries and recordings left by Moat, who hit the headlines in July 2010 after killing his ex-girlfriend's new partner and disappearing into the woods. The bodybuilder and mechanic, from Newcastle, was the subject of intense press scrutiny as he evaded the police for five days, before killing himself.
Gwyn Jones said: "Hankinson skilfully interweaves all that he has unearthed, making its delivery natural and coherent. He has retained the slight jerkiness and paranoia of Moat¹s way of thinking, but the reader is given a sense of just how complicated the story is, even if Moat¹s sentimentality, suspicion and self-pity are never far from sight. This is a nonfiction novel in the great tradition of Norman Mailer or Hunter S Thompson, or more exactly, given its distinctly northern flavour, Gordon Burn or David Peace. It will make for a notable debut."
The book will be published in spring 2015.
Scribe UK has also signed a new novel from South African author Eben Venter.
Wolf, Wolf follows Mattie Dulker, who tries to live up to his father's dying wishes, while struggling with a pornography addiction.
Scribe UK has signed world English language rights, excluding South Africa, and rights to a second novel, in a deal with Louise Greenberg.