Saturday, December 06, 2014

News from The Bookseller

Rowling pens Pottermore stories for ChristmasPottermore is set to post a surprise each day between the 12th and the 23rd December, including new writing from J K Rowling.
In a newsletter sent to Harry Potter fans, Pottermore said Rowling will write about Draco Malfoy, a pupil at Hogwarts and one of Harry Potter’s nemeses, as well as Florean Fortescue, the owner of the Ice Cream Parlour in Diagon Alley.
Other daily treats, which will be released at 1pm every day, will include gold Galleons and new portions to use on the site.
New Morrison novel coming in AprilToni Morrison’s new novel God Help the Child will be published by Chatto & Windus in April next year.
The book is described as “spare and unsparing” and is “about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult”.
It follows a woman called Bride, “whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life”.
Her light-skinned mother denied her love until “she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie whose reverberations refuse to diminish”.
Geordie Shore's Pattison to write two novelsGeordie Shore star Vicky Pattison, who released her autobiography earlier this year, is to write two novels.
Manpreet Grewal, commissioning editor, acquired world rights to the books for Little, Brown Book Group imprint Sphere from David Riding at MBA.
Pattison’s novels will focus on a “young woman who’s plucked from obscurity and thrown into the media-crazy world of reality TV”.
Two new books scheduled on Jeremy ThorpeViking and Little, Brown are both to publish books about the former leader of the Liberal Party Jeremy Thorpe, who died yesterday (4th December).
Little, Brown will be first, releasing Jeremy Thorpe by Michael Bloch on 16th December, less than two weeks after Thorpe’s death.
Campaigners 'thrilled' by prison books rulingCampaigners and prominent trade figures, including many high-profile authors, have expressed their delight with the High Court’s decision to rule the government's ban on sending books to prisoners unlawful.
Wine dictionary for GrantaGranta has won a five-way auction for a book from Telegraph wine writer Victoria Moore.
Wine Dine Dictionary is a guide to pairing wine with food, arranged A to Z by food at one end, and A to Z by wine the other.

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