DHH News Roundup 11th - 17th December 2023
Gareth Brown
The Book of Doors, the forthcoming debut from Gareth Brown (Transworld, February 2024), was selected by Reader's Digest as one of their 'Books to look forward to in 2024'!
"If you loved The Midnight Library or The Night Circus, add The Book of Doors to your 2024 TBR pile. Gareth Brown’s debut novel weaves together magic, time travel, mystery and adventure in a new and breathtaking way, according to advance readers. When a barista named Cassie receives a mysterious book full of drawings and strange script, she knows she’s been gifted with something extraordinary. What she doesn’t know is that there are dangerous people who are greedy for magical tomes, and they’ll stop at nothing to steal the book that opens portals to new worlds."
Check out the simply GORGEOUS cover for the US edition!
Suzie Edge
Suzie Edge's second book, Vital Organs (Wildfire, September 2023), has been sold to Daewon in South Korea and Wydawnictwo SQN in Poland.
Stay tuned to hear more about what Suzie will be getting up to in 2024...
Stuart Turton
Stuart Turton's debut novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Bloomsbury Raven, 2017) found itself back on the USA Today bestseller list last week!
The book, published under The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle in the US, found its home stateside with Sourcebooks.
Stuart Turton
In more news from Stuart Turton, Serbian rights for his forthcoming new book, The Last Murder at the End of the World (Bloomsbury Raven, March 2024), have been sold to Vulkan and Portuguese rights have gone to Grupa.
These sales mark the eleventh and twelfth territory sales for the book, pre-publication!
Gareth Brown and Stuart Turton
As well as the Reader's Digest list, Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors was included on Goodreads' '63 Most Anticipated Reads of 2024' alongside Stuart Turton's The Last Murder at the End of the World:
"Stories of magical books and eldritch tomes represent a long and rich tradition in fantasy literature. Aficionados of said tradition will want to check out this debut novel concerning New York City bookseller Cassie Andrews and her latest acquisition, a book that opens up limitless travel opportunities. Alas, several other collectors have been coveting this publication for a long, long time…" The Book of Doors
"A double nominee for the Goodreads Choice Awards in 2018, London author Stuart Turton (The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle) specializes in high-concept murder mysteries seasoned with sci-fi twists and assorted weirdness. His new book features a utopian/dystopian island, a deadly worldwide fog, a glitchy security system, and precisely 125 murder suspects. Well, 124." The Last Murder at the End of the World
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Finally, congratulations to Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, whose new book, Home Before Dark (Heim Fyrir Myrkur) was nominated for the Icelandic Crime Fiction Awards!
The book will be publiushed by Orenda Books in 2025.