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With more than 30 authors and illustrators introducing and signing new work at CI2023, booksellers will head home with tall to-be-read stacks and an abundance of fresh ideas.
By Shannon Maughan |
When Walker Books U.S. publishes
Ferryman by Claire McFall the first in a romantic YA fantasy trilogy reimagining the Charon myth in October, it will mark the latest stop in the book’s unusual journey.
Ferryman was originally published in the U.K. in 2013 by Templar Books, where it had been acquired by editor Helen Boyle. McFall’s debut novel won that year’s Scottish Children’s Book Award in the Older Readers category and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal as well as for several other prizes. In 2015
Ferryman landed in China, where it became a runaway hit, leading to the trilogy racking up sales of more than four million total copies to date. Three years (and two sequels) later, worldwide film and graphic novel rights to the Ferryman trilogy were purchased in 2018 by Legendary Entertainment and a movie based on book one is in the works. Now, after this circuitous route, U.S. readers will have their own editions of the books, with Wa