Set in 18th-century Ghana, it follows the descendents of two half-sisters across three centuries of African and American history. Meredith Wild, who hit the New York Times bestseller lists with her stories about a young businesswoman’s intense relationship with a billionaire, landed a “significant” six-figure deal with Transworld in the UK and a seven-figure US cheque, while according to, self-published phenomenon AG Riddle scored a seven-figure deal for his novel Departure, in which a plane from New York crash-lands in the English countryside.Ī 25-year-old, Ghanaian-born Yaa Gyasi, sold her debut novel Homegoing for a reported seven-figure sum in the US as publishers worldwide flocked to sign her. Other major deals at the event in London’s Olympia have seen self-published writers snapped up for major sums. First published in 1973, Fear of Flying has sold more than 27m copies around the world – Naomi Wolf called it “the book that started it all by the woman who started it all”.įear of Dying tells the story of Vanessa Wonderman, a former actor in her 60s treading the tightrope between dying parents, an ageing husband, and a pregnant daughter, and finding that “the lack of sex in her life makes her feel as if she’s losing something too valuable to ignore”, said her US publishers. Jong has published more than 20 books, including a series of novels featuring Wing and a 1998 collection of essays What Do Women Want, making her “a pillar of the sexual revolution and a hero to millions”, according to Canongate. Just acquired by Canongate in the UK, and St Martin’s Press in the US, with international publishers snapping up rights from Taiwan to Denmark, Fear of Dying is one of the hottest properties at the international publishing event. The new book promises to address “what it really takes to be human and female in the 21st century” and has been a major hit at this week’s London book fair.
More than 40 years after Erica Jong coined the term “zipless fuck” in Fear of Flying, her feminist novel of a young woman’s quest for sex with no strings attached, its heroine Isadora Wing is set to return in Fear of Dying.
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