Love in the time of Arabic
The largest foreign-rights deal in the history of Arabic publishing has been signed, with Cairo-based publishing house Dar Al Tanweer Egypt announcing the worldwide Arabic rights to Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's back catalogue. Fans of literature in Arabic have probably come across Márquez's work before, but these will be the first authorised editions, starting with One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Autumn of the Patriarch and The General in His Labyrinth.
No problems for Kevin Kwan
Filming is continuing apace on the adaptation of Kevin Kwan's fabulously fun 2013 novel Crazy Rich Asians, just as the Singaporean novelist publishes Rich People Problems, the final instalment of his bestselling trilogy. Ken Jeong, Constance Wu and Henry Golding will star in Kwan's comedy about a New Yorker who goes to Singapore for a wedding with her boyfriend, not realising that he is one of the country's most eligible bachelors. No news on a release date yet, but Rich People Problems is already shooting up the book charts.
Riding high on a new international tv adaptation
If there are any teenage boys in your life, you've probably come across Anthony Horowitz's excellent Alex Rider spy series. The author of new Sherlock Holmes and James Bond stories announced this week that there will now be an international TV adaptation of Alex Rider's bestselling missions to save the world, and that it will "skew older than the novels… event dramas for family audiences". Never Say Die, his 10th Rider book, is also out now.
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