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Orion imprint Weidenfeld & Nicholson has bought world rights in two novels from a new British author, J W Ironmonger, a Shropshire businessman.
Publishing director Kirsty Dunseath acquired the book on a pre-empt from Mark Stanton at Jenny Brown Associates. Ironmonger's debut is called The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder and features a man who has shut himself away for 30 years in an attempt to record every memory he has ever had. Now he lies dead, surrounded by his magnum opus - The Catalogue - "an exhaustive set of notebooks and journals that he hopes will form the map of one human mind," according to Dunseath.
The novel, described as the story of "a lifelong obsession", and "a quest to understand the human mind", will be published in spring 2012.