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Sphere has signed a two-book deal with thriller author Michael Robotham.
Tilda McDonald, editorial director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Mark Lucas at The Soho Agency.
“Watching Michael Robotham move from his remarkable undercover work on a dizzying variety of challenging and emotive memoirs to award-winning fiction bestsellerdom has been one of the enduring pleasures of my life and the Sphere team’s stirring ambitions for his future, alongside his film and TV successes, look set to take his audience to a whole new level,” said Lucas.
Since first being published by Sphere in 2004, Robotham has won one Steel and two Gold Dagger Awards from the Crime Writers’ Association and his 2021 publications When She Was Good was selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club. The Secrets She Keeps was adapted for the BBC in 2020 and the second series is scheduled for release in 2022. An adaptation of The Suspect, starring Aidan Turner as clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin, will hit screens in 2023.
McDonald said: “Michael is one of the most fearsome talents I have ever had the pleasure of working with. His ability to inhabit characters is second to none and the whole of Little, Brown gets excited when a new book lands. Whilst he has reached millions of readers already, our ambition knows no limits and 2022 will be the Year of Michael Robotham as we launch a huge campaign centred around the Master of Suspense.”
Robotham added: “It still feels like yesterday when Sphere published my first novel, The Suspect, and each new book has felt like the first because of the excitement and passion of my publishers. There are plenty more to come.”