Archive: Feb 2017

Terms and Conditions – The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and Elemis Twitter competition

Terms and Conditions This competition is promoted by HarperCollins Publishers Limited (“HarperCollins”), I London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. This promotion is open to all UK residents except employees of HarperCollins and Elemis (or their parent, subsidiaries or any affiliated companies) and their immediate… Read More

We’re SINGING for Chilbury – to celebrate The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir publication

Well, a certain choir are, all for the sake of a wonderful book that we are delighted to be publishing tomorrow! You have no doubt found your way to the Borough website through the Chilbury blog tour, which we are just thrilled so many lovely bloggers have… Read More

A richly atmospheric acquisition – The Hunters

We are thrilled to announce a new acquisition for the Borough Press list: The Hunters by Kat Gordon is a sweeping, coming-of-age story set in British colonial Kenya. Richly atmospheric, The Hunters takes place between 1925 and 1937 and is narrated by Theo, fifteen when he first arrives in the country, the son… Read More

Start reading Robert Lautner’s The Draughtsman

 Start reading the first chapter of Robert Lautner’s The Draughtsman The woman at the desk wishes me good morning. She looks like she has been up for hours, fresh and beaming, and I am sure not the same woman I… Read More

A #DayInTheLife – Suzie Dooré, Publishing Director

5am: Leap out of bed. An hour’s meditation and a matcha smoothie and I’m ready to fast-walk to the office… no. No, I can’t lie. It’s actually: 7am: Wake up, peel Kindle off face where I fell asleep reading a submission. Shower, get dressed (it used to be… Read More

AUTHENTIC AND HEARTFELT DEBUT ‘SHE’S NOT THERE’ ACQUIRED

The Borough Press has acquired Tamsin Grey’s first novel, SHE’S NOT THERE. Suzie Dooré, Publishing Director of the imprint, bought World rights from Jo Unwin. SHE’S NOT THERE is the story of two little boys who wake up one morning to find their mother has vanished. Nine-year-old Jonah tries to puzzle out… Read More