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02 October 2025

Conker Pictures Lands Hot Eloise Rodger Novel ‘Death’s A Bitch’

Following what was called “an incredibly competitive international process,” Kim Varvell and Tommy Bulfin’s production house will adapt the Eloise Rodger's debut novel Death's A Bitch into a TV series. The plan is to take the show to both the UK and international markets.

Eloise Rodger’s upcoming debut novel, which is due to publish in 2027, has been directing chatter in worldwide circles, leading to the auction.

Billed as a “coming-of-age novel with a high concept twist,” Death’s a Bitch comes from 22-year-old London-based writer Rodger, who wrote the book in her final year at Trinity College Dublin, where she was a scholar of English literature – a post that has previously been held by the likes of Samuel Beckett. She was co editor-in-chief of Icarus, the oldest arts journal in Ireland, where she published new work from Simon Armitage and Lucy Caldwell. The book follows Aggie, whose younger sister, Marcie, has been unwell for over a year and on a never-ending waitlist. When Death offers Aggie a job that will allow Marcie to live, she readily accepts.

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09 September 2025

Lawrence Osborne's novel The Ballad of a Small Player adapted into film starring Colin Farrell

Lawrence Osborne's 2014 novel, The Ballad of a Small Player has been adapted into a film, Ballad of a Small Player, directed by Edward Berger, starring Colin Farrell. The film premiered at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival in August 2025, and will be released in cinemas in mid-October before streaming on Netflix at the end of October. 

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27 August 2025

Julia Donaldson makes history!

Julia Donaldson has become the first writer to sell more than 50 million units through British bookshops since accurate records began!

Donaldson and her illustrators have now shifted 50.3 million copies via NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market.

Donaldson’s bestseller is her and illustrator Axel Scheffler’s 1999 paperback edition of The Gruffalo (Macmillan Children’s), which has sold just under 1.5 million copies. She has two other editions that have exceeded one million units (both illustrated by Scheffler and published by Macmillan Children’s): The Gruffalo’s Child and Room on the Broom. All of Donaldson’s top 10 bestsellers have been collaborations with Axel Scheffler. Various versions of the two Gruffalo titles account for nearly 20% of Donaldson’s total, a percentage that may increase in Autumn 2026 when the third title in the series is set to be launched.

 

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