Ailah Ahmed | The Bookseller

Hutchinson Heinemann snaps up Mishra's first novel in 20 years

Hutchinson Heinemann has secured the first novel in 20 years by award-winning author Pankaj Mishra. Read more

Faulks, Powers and Towles at Hutchinson Heinemann showcase

Sebastian Faulks has spoken of how male authors writing female characters is increasingly viewed with scepticism, while Richard Powers revealed the impact of the pandemic... Read more

Cornerstone merges Hutchinson and William Heinemann, recruits Conford and Ahmed

Cornerstone is merging Hutchinson and William Heinemann, and recruiting Profile's Helen Conford and Little, Brown's Ailah Ahmed, while publisher Jason Arthur leaves PRH after 22 years.... Read more

Little, Brown to publish 'powerful' debut from Daniel Loedel

Little, Brown UK has acquired Daniel Loedel's literary debut, Hades, Argentina, billed as "gripping" and "ingeniously narrated". ... Read more

Virago wins Kohda's Millennial vampire debut in six-way auction

Virago has acquired a Millennial vampire tale—Claire Kohda's debut novel Woman, Eating— in a six-way publisher auction. ... Read more

Little, Brown promotes Ahmed to publishing director

Little, Brown has promoted editorial director Ailah Ahmed to the role of publishing director following her "outstanding publishing and acquiring in 2018 and 2019". Read more

Virago buys 'breathtaking' debut from Lin

Virago has bought the “breathtaking” debut by Chia-Chia Lin about a grieving Taiwanese family living in Alaska. Read more

Virago buys Okorie debut from Irish indie Skein Press

Virago Press has bought Melatu Uche Okorie’s "unique and distinctive" stories of migrant women, from Irish indie publisher Skein Press. Read more

Virago to publish 'gripping' debut The Incendiaries

Virago is publishing The Incendiaries by R O Kwon, a book about a couple, one of whom is drawn into a secretive cult tied to North Korea.... Read more

Greer's Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction pre-empted by L,B within 24 hours

Little, Brown has pre-empted Andrew Sean Greer's 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Less within 24 hours. Read more

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