Les droits cinématographiques de MISSING YOU, le nouveau roman de Harlan Coben, qui sort aujourd’hui aux États-Unis et qui sera publié en France par les Éditions Belfond, ont été préemptés par Warner Bros et RatPac Entertainment.
L’acquisition a été annoncée sur Deadline, le site internet référence pour les actualités hollywoodiennes.
Après enchères avec quatre autres éditeurs, ce sont finalement les éditions Algonquin qui publieront les deux prochains romans middle-grade de Kelly Barnhill. Le premier, THE WITCH’S BOY, est prévu pour septembre 2014 et a été déjà annoncé comme l’un des cinq titres sélectionnés pour le BEA Buzz Panel 2014, indice de l’intérêt et de l’enthousiasme qu’un titre suscite chez les professionnels de l’édition.
Et voici la couverture dessinée par John Klassen:
THE WITCH’S BOY
Kelly Barnhill
Algonquin Young Readers, September 2014
In the tradition of Neil Gaiman and Kate DiCamillo, THE WITCH’S BOY is at once engagingly lyrical and breathtakingly adventurous. With a deft hand, Barnhill takes fairy tale elements – speaking stones, a bandit king and his practical daughter, and a spoiled young king – and weaves them into a richly detailed narrative that feels both classic and completely fresh at the same time!
Even the revered Witch can’t save her sons when they are swept into a raging river, and only one boy, Ned – the wrong boy – survives. Nonetheless, it is up to him to protect his mother’s magic (hidden and kept safe under their house) from the Bandit King who wants to steal the magic for its rightful owner. Ned must summon the unruly magic for himself, and with the help of the Aine, the Bandit King’s daughter, try to save his family and put the magic back to rest.
Trois jours seulement après sa première soumission, THE DRESSMAKER OF DACHAU de Mary Chamberlain fait déjà l’objet d’enchères en Italie, aux Pays Bas et en Angleterre. Et aux Etats-Unis, quatre éditeurs de premier plan sont entrés dans la course !
THE DRESSMAKER OF DACHAU
by Mary Chamberlain
THE DRESSMAKER OF DACHAU is a literary historical fiction spanning 1939 to 1948 and following a young London seamstress who is hanged for murder in 1948. It’s beautifully evocative, intensely clever novel, which draws the reader in before pulling the rug from beneath their feet:
They had already weighed Ada and measured her. She was eight stone three pounds, and five feet six in stockinged feet.
She still had the slender figure of a mannequin.
She put on the thick, calico knickers with drawstrings, pulled them tight round her thighs and waist so nothing would leak. She knew that when they came off, there would be marks on her skin.
‘There’s a notebook,’ she said. ‘I kept a notebook. Everything’s in it.’
‘Are you ready?’
‘No,’ she said. ‘No.’
Ada Vaughan is hanged in Holloway Prison in 1948, a prostitute and murderess, pilloried in the press as the ‘Dressmaker of Dachau’. But who was the woman behind the epithet? And what led her to her fate? Spanning 1939 to 1948 and taking us from the glamour of the Savoy to the desperation of Dachau, we watch a woman betrayed and abandoned, forced to survive on her wits alone, and in every way underserving of her punishment. Or was she?
In 1939 Ada is nothing more than an average young seamstress, from a normal home in London. But her life changes when she is swept off her feet by Stanislaus, an Austrian-Hungarian aristocrat. She elopes with him to France but when she falls pregnant he abandons her, leaving her to her fate as WWII breaks out. Forced to give up her child she is sent as a POW to Dachau where she begins to make clothes for the commandant’s wife, forever haunted by the fate of her son. On her return to London after the war she falls on desperate times and becomes a prostitute, where a chance meeting with a man she recognises from her past leads her on the steps towards the gallows.
Ada is an intensely compelling character. Is she an innocent young woman driven to a terrible crime? Or is she a liar and a fantasist, cold-blooded and calculating?
Mary Chamberlain is the author of popular and academic histories, and is Emeritus Professor of Caribbean History at Oxford Brookes University.
John Ridley, Oscar 2014 du meilleur scénario adapté pour le percutant Twelve Years a Slave, ne cache pas son enthousiasme pour FORTY ACRES de Dwayne Alexander Smith :
« FORTY ACRES is an absolutely enthralling thriller, one that also has the capacity to challenge the readers’ perceptions of right and wrong. With supreme confidence and a mastery of storytelling, the author asks hard questions, provides no easy answers… But delivers maximum suspense. It’s an unforgettable work by an amazing new voice. Easily my favorite of the year. »
Grove Atlantic vient d’annoncer la sortie du prochain roman de Bradford Morrow, l’auteur de THE DIVINER’S TALE, acclamé par la critique et publié par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (US), Atlantic Books (Royaume-Uni), Editora Record (Brésil), Euromedia (République tchèque) et Elliot Edizioni (Italie).
THE FORGERS
Bradford Morrow
Mysterious Press, November 2014
“a fine writer with an extraordinary feel for the physicality of fiction” (Boston Globe)
“one of America’s major literary voices” (Publishers Weekly)
The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalized beyond repair. Adam’s sister, Meghan, and her lover – Will, a convicted if unrepenting literary forger – struggle to come to terms with the seemingly incomprehensible murder. But when Will begins receiving threatening letters written in the handwriting of long-dead authors, from someone who knows secrets about Adam’s death and Will’s past, he understands his own life is also on the line and attempts to forge a new beginning for himself and Meg. In THE FORGERS, Morrow reveals the passion that drives collectors to the razor-sharp edge of morality, brilliantly confronting the hubris and mortal danger of rewriting history with a fraudulent pen.
THE FORGERS is already receiving advance praise: Nicholas Basbanes, author of A Gentle Madness and On Paper, has raved, “With The Forgers, Bradford Morrow has masterfully combined an exquisitely thickening plot, an informed appreciation of the antiquarian book world, and a deep understanding of what makes the obsessive people who inhabit this quirky community do the sort of impassioned things they sometimes do, up to and including the commission of horrific crimes… This is a bibliomystery you will want to inhale in one sitting.