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OMNIBUS PRESS ANNOUNCE THE ACQUISITION OF ADELE BIOGRAPHY BY CAROLINE SANDERSON, PUBLISHED MARCH 2012
Omnibus Press is pleased to announce that author and journalist Caroline Sanderson will write a ground-breaking biography of twice Grammy Award winning singer Adele, to be published in the UK in March 2012.
Promising to uncover the real Adele, Someone Like Adele will enhance Omnibus’ already diverse and established catalogue of music-related biographies and will undoubtedly be a key book in the Omnibus Press 2012 publications list. Caroline’s account of Adele’s childhood, rise to fame, heartbreaks, the stories behind her songs, her influences and upfront personality will certainly spark plenty of press interest.
Caroline Sanderson is the author of three non-fiction books and a long-standing regular contributor to The Bookseller.
Caroline’s features, book reviews and interviews have also appeared in The Times, She, Mslexia and Books For Keeps.
Caroline Sanderson says: ‘I’m delighted to be writing about Adele for Omnibus Press. She’s a beguiling subject: an award-winning singer-songwriter with a stupendous voice, whose soul-baring music seems to strike a chord with almost everyone. And in an industry that prefers to package its pop stars, she stands out as a single-minded young woman, determined to look how she wants to look, and do it all her way.’
This exciting book was acquired from Sarah of Sarah Such Literary Agency and was first discussed at the London Book Fair earlier this year, where Caroline’s enthusiasm for the project and passion for Adele’s story and music shone through.
David Barraclough, Commissioning Editor at Omnibus Press, says: ‘Caroline is undoubtedly the ideal author to do justice to Adele’s extraordinary success story and Omnibus Press is thrilled to be working with her.’
About Adele
Having recently graced the cover of British Vogue, won 3 MTV VMA awards and been nominated for 4 MTV EMA awards, Adele’s career continues to skyrocket.
Her Album 21 has been certified ten times platinum, stayed at number one for 16 weeks and has now sold more than 3 million copies. Adele is the first living artist since The Beatles to achieve two top five hits in both the UK singles and albums charts at the same time.
She has also broken the record for the most UK digital downloads and scored 5.5 million hits on YouTube after her now legendary 2011 Brit Awards performance of ‘Someone Like You’. In May 2011 Adele was placed ninth on the list of the richest British and Irish music stars under the age of 30.
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