Deal

Whilst James Harding's new media venture crawls forward at testudinidal pace, Mrs Harding's new venture - a novel - is gaining pace.

'The Truants' by Kate Weinberg, yet to be published in the UK, has been sold to Putnam (part of Penguin) in the USA by agent Clare Conrad at Janklow & Nesbit UK. For new readers, the novel, picked up by Bloomsbury in the UK, is “a seductive and thrilling coming-of-age novel about obsession and deceit on a college campus, in which a shocking love triangle and a heartbreaking betrayal will fuel one woman’s search for the truth.”