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Fox said the novel, Hurtubise’s first to be sold into the U.S. market, is about “a Donegal artist living an outwardly idyllic life who unexpectedly wins a prestigious award that invites a swarm of publicity, threatening to expose decades’ worth of buried memories and stolen identities.” The first three books will be released in 2025, including the only previously self-published book in the series, Nine Month Contract. Grove Atlantic Picks Up Strongmen History In her first acquisition for Grove Atlantic, Bridget Flannery-McCoy has taken North American rights to Ozymandias by University of Cambridge professor of international relations Ayse Zarakol, which the publisher said is “a global history of strongmen.”