The Secret History of Kate Bush
First published in 1983, Fred Vermorel’s The Secret History of Kate Bush (And The Strange Art of Pop) has had a resurrection these past few years, with its initial reissue by the independent French press Le Gospel. A book which is as much a kind of cultural anthropology of fandom as it is a consideration of the elusive magnetism of Kate Bush, today Vermorel’s text reads as timeless, perhaps because it didn’t adhere to the publishing conventions of its time.
Rebecca Wilson moves to Quarto in four-book deal
What Mummy Makes author Rebecca Wilson is moving from DK to Quarto in a four-book deal across the Quarto Group’s Adult and Children’s divisions. Eleanor Maxfield, publisher of Carnival, and Holly Willsher, publisher of words & pictures, acquired world rights from Darryl Samaraweera at Artellus Ltd.
Les Fugitives signs Kyra Wilder
The new novel from Wilder (Little Bandaged Days, Picador 2020) is 'a psychological thriller with feminist bite', setting the Greek myth of the Hesperides in Marin County, California.