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Harvill Secker has fought off bids from eight other UK publishers to acquire UK & Commonwealth rights to Reif Larsen's début novel, The Selected Works of T S Spivet, in a deal with Judith Murray at Greene & Heaton on behalf of the Denise Shannon Literary Agency in New York.
The Selected Works of T S Spivet is the story of a 12-year-old genius mapmaker from Montana. It contains illustrations, maps and diagrams, all created by the author.
Stuart Williams, senior editor at Harvill Secker said: "It is a perfect gem of a novel – funny, wildly ingenious and very charming – a true one-off which defies comparisons."
Harvill Secker will publish the book in June 2009.