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Rebecca Carter, acquiring editor at Harvill Secker, has bought the rights to two new titles by female authors.
Carter bought UK and Commonwealth rights for Clare Clark’s Savage Land via Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander Associates. The book will be published in March 2010. Clark has previously written The Nature of Monsters and The Great Stink, both published by Penguin.
Carter also acquired UK, Commonwealth and Canadian rights for a debut novel by Alice Albinia from Sarah Chalfant at the Wylie Agency. The book is a work-in-progress, which is as-yet-untitled. It has been scheduled for publication in 2011.
Carter she was "looking to build a small list of writers I think are going to be major".
She added: "In Clark’s mesmerising novel about French colonists struggling for a foothold in Louisiana before the building of New Orleans, and Albinia’s witty, exuberant social comedy set across the Muslim-Hindu divide in Delhi, I found a power to tell stories, and to get to the heart of what breaks and builds communities that I found truly exciting."