Our ongoing success together is source of great pride and pleasure. Ian Chapman, chief executive and publisher of Simon & Schuster UK and International, said: "We couldn’t be happier to have signed Philippa Gregory’s next four books. The Taming of the Queen sold 131,112 copies in paperback last year, and her 2017 paperback Three Sisters, Three Queens has already shifted 97,206 copies in two months. In the UK she has sold 5.5 million books for £36.3m through Nielsen BookScan, with her last three titles hitting both the Original Fiction and Mass Market Fiction number one spots. This year will mark Gregory's 30th as a published author, with S&S and her former publisher HarperCollins throwing a celebration to mark her success at The Loft at The Ivy Club in May.Ĭarolyn Reidy, president and chief executive officer of Simon & Schuster, said the writer was “one of a handful of authors with a truly global audience”. Gregory continues to be jointly edited by Suzanne Baboneau at Simon & Schuster UK and Trish Todd at Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster US. World publishing and audio rights were acquired from Anthony Mason, Gregory’s agent and husband. The fourth book will be a non-fiction work exploring the contributions of "extraordinary yet little known women" throughout the centuries “historically demonstrating that women are agents of their own destinies”, the publisher said. The first yet-to-be-titled novel is scheduled for simultaneous publication in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and India in September 2019. The first novel is set in the mid-1600s and the series will cover 300 years of history, following the family through the ages as they rise from local tenant farmers in the south of England to travel the world and become dynamic entrepreneurs. The Fairmile Series will depart from fictionalising the Tudor and Plantagenet courts to tell a “richly imagined, multi-generational story spanning three centuries and continents, with one family at its heart”. The deal, signed last week, is for three works of fiction and one of non-fiction. Multi-million-pound selling historical author Philippa Gregory is to take her fiction in a new direction in a four-book global deal with her publisher Simon & Schuster.
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