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Further to Monday’s story about fraud accusations against Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path, Penguin commented that they undertook “all the necessary pre-publication due diligence.” They also said they had not received “any concerns about the book’s content” before The Observer investigation. The Observer piece alleges that the book contains substantial fabrication, and omits that Winn embezzled from her employer and was involved in a fraudulent money raising scheme, among many other accusations. The publisher’s full statement to BBC News reads: “Penguin (Michael Joseph) published the Salt Path in 2018 and, like many readers, we were moved and inspired …
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Author of DID YE HEAR MAMMY DIED? Seamas O'Reilly's PRESTIGE DRAMA, a darkly humorous novel set in Derry where the arrival—and disappearance—of an American actress researching her role in a film about the Troubles forces the community to reckon with its own history, to Reagan Arthur at Cardinal, by Dan Kirschen at CAA (US). Rights also to Rhiannon Smith and Caitlin Landuyt at Fleet (UK), by Harriet Poland at CAA; to Guanda (Italy), in a pre-empt; and to Les Escales (France), in a pre-empt, by Daisy Meyrick at CAA.
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