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Puffin has sold US rights in The Enemy Charlie Higson's brand new action horror series to the Disney-Hyperion imprint in a "major" deal announced at this year's Bologna Book Fair.
Rights director Zosia Knopp, who is currently in Bologna, sold rights to Lola Bubbosh, executive editor at the Disney Book Group, after the entire Disney-Hyperion team read The Enemy over one weekend.
Knopp said she was confident that more rights would be sold during Bologna. Knopp added: "There is a huge amount of interest from foreign publishers in the new books here at the fair and we are confident of big international success with this exciting new project from one of Puffin’s biggest brand authors."
Puffin Books acquired world rights in the new series from Alexandra Cann of Alexandra Cann Representation (who retains film and television rights) in 2008. It is the first and only other children’s series of books from Higson since the Young Bond books, which have seen over a million copies in sales and have been translated into 24 languages.
Bubbosh said: "The entire Disney-Hyperion team read The Enemy over one weekend, putting aside plans because we just couldn’t stop reading it; we all knew we had to publish it. Charlie Higson has turned his hand to another subject entirely and made it his own. . . We are confident this will be a tremendous hit."