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Pan Macmillan is publishing in paperback the "best" of its titles from Bello, its imprint devoted to reviving classic and out-of-print titles as e-books and print-on-demand.
Eight of Bello’s "rediscovered classic" titles will be published on the Pan imprint in 2016. The books, chosen for "their extraordinary reach and charm", will each given "striking" new cover designs, inspired by iconic UK vintage travel posters as a reflection of where each is set.
The new programme launches with the publication of the Cornwall-based The Grove of Eagles by Winston Graham and the Scottish The Hills is Lonely by Lillian Beckwith, whose centenary is this year.
The remaining six titles scheduled for release this year are: Robert Barnard’s crime-fiction novels A Little Local Murder and The Case of the Missing Brontë, due May; Gerald Durrell’s Marrying off Mother and Other Stories, to coincide with new ITV drama The Durrells, and The Enchanted Places by Winnie-the-Pooh author Christopher Milne, offering readers "a glimpse into Christopher Robin’s real childhood in Sussex" in July; and, last of the titles to make the move to Pan in 2016, A. J. Cronin’s Dr Finlay’s Casebook and David Williams’s Christmas mystery Murder in Advent in November.
Sophie Brewer, interim Bello publisher, commented: "In publishing carefully curated backlist titles on Bello we’ve been able to identify the best-selling forgotten classic gems on the list and bring these to a wider audience in print form with glorious covers."
Macmillan Bello started out as Macmillan Compass when it first launched under Jeremy Trevathan and Sara Lloyd in June 2011. It later teamed up with Curtis Brown in October 2011 to release hundreds of out-of-print titles from the agency's list as digital editions. It published a p.o.d. crime collection of "lost gems", called Bello: The Best of British Crime, in July 2012.