The Tunbridge Wells-based author said: “I’m absolutely delighted that I’ll be published by The Borough Press and William Morrow. Her other titles for Bloomsbury include A Trick of the Dark, Tyme’s End and Gamerunner. Her first novel, The Traitor Game (Bloomsbury), won the Branford Boase Award in 2009. When Emmett is apprenticed to a binder, he starts to suspect his own recollections may have been tampered with.Ĭollins has previously written under the name of B R Collins. The Binding explores love, prejudice and memory in a world where bookbinders remove unwanted memories and trap them safely in writing where they can be kept from escaping. Borough Press and William Morrow will publish simultaneously in January 2019. North American rights to both books also went to HarperCollins, in a pre-empt, to editor Jessica Williams at William Morrow. Suzie Dooré, publishing director at Borough Press, acquired British and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Sarah Ballard at United Agents. The story centres on a world where bookbinders trap unwanted memories in writing and the HarperCollins imprint bought two books by the author for six-figures. Borough Press has won a “hotly contested” first adult novel from YA author Bridget Collins after an eight-way auction.
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