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Random House begins the London Book Fair by announcing a new fiction imprint, Hogarth, which is part of the Crown Publishing Group in the US and part of Chatto & Windus in the UK. Molly Stern will lead the US line, which aims to publish eight to 10 books a year, and Clara Farmer will lead the UK version, which will issue a smaller list drawing from the US titles. The announcement says the units will have "a close, but non-exclusive, editorial relationship."
Lindsay Sagnette and Zachary Wagman are also acquiring for the US list; Becky Hardie and Poppy Hampson are working on the UK line. The imprint is named in honor of Virginia and Leonard Woolf's The Hogarth Press, which they founded in 1917 (which has long been a part of Chatto). Among the initial lead titles--announced in detail in this morning's version of our weekly Deals round-up--are I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits and The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya.
Stern says in the release, "We are thrilled to introduce a new and exciting fiction line that will be editorially distinct from, and complementary to, the kind of fiction that Crown has traditionally published. We are honored to create an American life for a great publishing name, and we look forward to building a list of worldly, provocative, and well written works for a broad and lasting readership."
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