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Bluebird buys Roxy Bourdillon’s 'nostalgia-drenched' memoir

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'Bluebird will publish DIVA editor Roxy Bourdillon ’s memoir, What A Girl Wants: A (True) Story of Sexuality and Self-Discovery .

Jodie Lancet-Grant, associate publisher at Bluebird, acquired world rights from Laura MacDougall at United Agents, scheduled for publication on 17th April 2025.

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04/23/2024 - 18:55
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Margot Douaihy and Helen Erichsen longlisted for the ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award for Crime Fiction

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Huge congratulations to our wonderful authors for being longlisted. This award celebrates the best in debut crime fiction published in 2023.

SCORCHED GRACE by Margot Douaihy is a sensationally fiery debut featuring a crime-solving queer punk nun that's 'so much more than a mystery' (Gillian Flynn).

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04/23/2024 - 18:41
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Casey and Slater Shortlisted for the 2024 CrimeFest Awards

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Congratulations to Jane Casey and Alice Slater who have been shortlisted in the 2024 CrimeFest Awards. Slater's debut, Death of a Bookseller , is up for the £1,000 Specsavers Debut Crime Novel of the Year and The Close , the tenth instalment in Casey's bestselling Maeve Kerrigan series, is shortlisted...

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04/16/2024 - 10:39
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2024 Pat Kavanagh Prize Winner Revealed

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Congratulations to Jane Dabate, winner of the 2024 Pat Kavanagh Prize. United Agents have partnered with the Goldsmiths Department of English and Creative Writing, for the fifteenth year running, to recognise the excellence of the students on the Goldsmiths MA in creative and life writing programme, and to commemorate the...

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04/11/2024 - 11:20
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