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Hodder & Stoughton is hoping new books by Michael Rosen, Boris Johnson, Patrick Leigh Fermor and John Grisham among others will help it recreate the success it experienced in 2013 with books including Sir Alex Ferguson’s autobiography.
At a sales conference last night (March 13th) Hodder announced its full 2014 line-up.
The event for the trade included appearances from a number of authors and the announcement of a number of new books, including an as yet untitled novel from Grisham and a new book from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Abducting a General (John Murray), to be released on October 9th.
Rosen will released Know It All (John Murray) in September, while London mayor Johnson is writing a book about Churchill called The Churchill Factor (Hodder & Stoughton), out in October.
A new book by Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time (Hodder & Stoughton), will be released in November, marking the first time the author’s work has received a winter release date in the UK. Picoult, the first author on stage at last night’s event, read an extract from the book.
Other non-fiction being released in 2014 includes Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac (Hodder & Stoughton) by Mick Fleetwood, released on October 1st; Now Playing: The Soundtrack to My Life (Hodder & Stoughton) by Dermot O’Leary, released in October; Nick Drake’s Remembered for a While (John Murray), out in November; and a new cookbook from Gino D’Acampo, Gino’s Italian Escape: The Beautiful North (Hodder & Stoughton), out in September.
Hodder has previously announced new books from David Nicholls and David Mitchell.
At last night’s event Nicholls read an extract from his new book Us, the follow up to One Day, which will be released September 30th.
Mitchell read from his new novel The Bone Clocks, also out in September.
In fiction, there will also be new books from Chris Ryan, Peter Robinson, Jeffrey Deaver and Stephen King, which has previously been announced.
The event, titled The Night of the Storytellers, was held at the London Film Museum on the South Bank.