AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoPublishing & Booksellers: Roddy Doyle returns to Barrytown with Faber’s The Yellow Corridor, while independent Daydreams Bookshop in Milngavie marks its second anniversary after a law-to-books pivot. Book-to-screen buzz: Amazon MGM drops a new trailer for Colleen Hoover’s Verity (Oct. 2 release), and Dakota Johnson says the adaptation came with real “pressure” to satisfy readers. Industry deals: HarperVoyager acquires Paddy Dobson’s sci-fi horror debut Dragonfly for early 2028; Transworld buys Radhika Sanghani’s first adult non-fiction Honesty. Crime & culture: Netflix’s UNABOMBER arrives as a biographical crime drama; meanwhile, an IIT-Bombay student death sparks renewed debate over whether caste-based harassment may be central to the case. Kids & events: Netflix is making a new Sesame Street film; and Halloween 2026 event guides highlight family-friendly options across the West Midlands and Shropshire. Reading lists: The Globe and Mail and Unity Books charts, plus a Booker Prize shortlist spotlight, keep the week’s fiction momentum going.
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