AGP Executive Report
Last update: 7 hours agoTV Adaptation: HBO and A24 are developing a series version of William Hjortsberg’s Fallen Angel/Angel’s Inferno, with Zac Efron set to lead and executive-produce and Jonathan van Tulleken directing multiple episodes—another big-screen-to-small-screen turn for a cult literary thriller. Publishing Deals: Nosy Crow is teaming with the University of Cambridge on a “powerful” non-fiction title, while Quercus has signed Amelie Rhys’s self-published enemies-to-lovers romance The Season for Hating You. Awards & Reviews: Gráinne O’Hare’s Thirst Trap won the 2026 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year at Listowel Writers’ Week, and the BBC’s Middlemarch adaptation is being praised for bringing George Eliot’s novel “to life.” Book Trade & Community: IndieReader named winners of its 15th Discovery Awards (1,000+ indie submissions), and Ithaca’s fifth Book & Zine Fair returns with 40+ independent publishers and zine-makers. Education & Policy: Kenya’s publishers warn the government owes Sh9.48b for school textbooks, threatening Grade 11 delivery. Science & Health: A large review in The Lancet suggests parental mental health—not antidepressant use in pregnancy—drives the autism/ADHD link.
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