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Simon & Schuster is publishing two Titanic books, one fiction and the other non-fiction, focusing on the survivors, with publication scheduled around the centenary of the disaster in 2012.
Mike Jones, editorial director for non-fiction, bought world English rights to Surviving the Titanic by Andrew Wilson from Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander.
The book will be published in late 2011 with Atria's Peter Borland publishing in the United States.
The book examines what happened to the 705 survivors of the maritime disaster, how they remembered that night and how they coped afterwards.
Maxine Hitchcock, fiction editorial director, bought world rights to The Captain's Daughter by Leah Fleming. The deal was signed through Judith Murdoch and S&S is selling translation rights. The book will be published in early 2012.
The title follows two women, a third class steerage passenger and wealthy industrialist's wife, both of whom survive the sinking. The publisher said the two become unlikely friends until "the past encroaches on the present".
S&S said: "Rich in detail and packed full of drama, marrying fiction and little-known fact, The Captain Daughter spans three generations, as many countries and over 80 years."