Philip Gwyn Jones, publisher-at-large at Scribe, has made a trio of acquisitions including a 'science book that reads like a novel' about the Italian polymath Jerome Cardano, a book bought at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Gwyn Jones pre-empted UK and British Commonwealth rights to The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook by Michael Brooks from Patrick Walsh at PEW.
About the book, he said: 'The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook is a science book that reads like novel, for readers of Carlo Rovelli or Umberto Eco. A prize winner, by my lights. A work of and about genius.'
Scribe will also publish The Dictionary of Animal Languages, a debut novel by Canadian writer and designer, Heidi Sopinka, It is a voice-driven character study of an elderly woman born to a wealthy family in Lancashire, educated by nuns, who found herself through art, and then lived amongst artists in interwar Paris.
Finally, Scribe also acquired world English language rights to 1947: When Now Begins by Elisabeth Åsbrink, who came to prominence in her native Sweden as an investigative journalist who exposed the Nazi sympathies of the owner of IKEA. About the book, Gywn Jones says: 'Åsbrink chronicles the creation of the world we now inhabit.'
Look for all these titles next year!