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Doubleday will publish Margaret Atwood‘s BOOK OF LIVES: A Memoir of Sorts on November 4, 2025. The book will be published simultaneously in Canada by McClelland & Stewart and in the UK by Chatto & Windus. US rights were acquired from Karolina Sutton at CAA, with Doubleday vp and executive editor Lee Boudreaux editing. Doubleday writes in a release that the book explores Atwood’s life “from her peripatetic childhood in the Canadian far north, through the writing of THE HANDMAID’S TALE.”
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Reese's Book Club LitUp Fellow Natalie Messier's EVERY VERSION OF YOU, in which a Los Angeles lawyer gets a second chance at life and love when she dies and is offered the chance to start over at 18 again—with all the knowledge from her first life, to Carrie Feron at Gallery, in a major deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2026, by Holly Root at Root Literary (NA). Rights also to Penguin Germany (Germany), at auction; to Transworld (UK), at auction; to Hachette (France); and to General Press (Hungary). … read more
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