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Thread, the non-fiction imprint of Bookouture, is teaming up with Hachette stablemate Octopus Publishing Group to launch a print partnership.
The first title in the new venture will be Florence ·ªålájídé’s Coconut, described by Octopus as "a memoir of adoption and searching for belonging and identity," to be published in July. The partnership will see Octopus simultaneously publish physical editions alongside Thread’s e-book and audio formats.
Titles to be launched by Octopus in paperback this year include Gail Muller’s Unlost, an account of the author's journey completing the Appalachian Trail against all odds. Mona Hajjar Halaby’s memoir In My Mother’s Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home will also be published, as will the recently acquired My Mother, Munchausen’s and Me by Helen Naylor. Thread publisher Claire Bord bought world English-language rights in Naylor’s memoir about her mother’s mental illness from Caroline Hardman at the Hardman & Swainson Literary Agency.
Anna Bond, m.d. at Octopus, said of the partnership: “Octopus are delighted to be working with Bookouture’s Thread imprint to enable their talented list of non-fiction authors to reach physical book readers. We are also especially pleased to be able to help booksellers share in Bookouture’s new non-fiction venture, which has been so impressive to watch online.”
Bookouture m.d. Jenny Geras said: “Bookouture’s success in reaching huge audiences for our digital formats, combined with the brilliant expertise of the Octopus team to bring our books to market in physical editions, is the perfect partnership. It signals the start of Thread’s ambitious plans for growth over the next two years.”
Launched in May 2020, Bookouture’s non-fiction imprint Thread has published titles including Take My Hand, a joint memoir on grief and motherhood by Kerry Fisher and Pat Sowa, Joanna Fortune’s 15-Minute Parenting series and, most recently, the e-book edition of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique.